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Christianity is not a religion.

A developing human brain such as a child’s is easily manipulated to follow a course set by a manipulator into its full development and adulthood. Can we guarantee the altruistic motives of those in manipulator positions or of the material being fed to the child to be non-partisan and beyond reproach? Much damage can be done to a developing brain that will manifest in the personality of the fully developed adult.

The burning of any religious philosophy onto the psyche of a child is wrong in so many ways, regardless of whether it is the religious beliefs of the majority in society or that of the child’s parents; it should be added to the laws of society that address child abuse.

Religious instruction should only be by the free choice of a more mature individual with less naive or raw circumspect. All the world’s religions should then be made available, Asian, African, American, Australian or European.

What......bit harsh you reckon? What if the rapists, murderers, paedophiles and other societal miscreants were once very normal humans but during their development stages were sent down the wrong path that pre-programmed them to be what they are in adulthood?

There are many examples of wrongful, misleading Christian gobbledygook such as whatever propaganda that was fed to a child that re-manifested in the adulthood of a hateful warmonger whom believes beyond doubt that he is on a Crusade doing God’s work. He believes that Christianity is of European origin, has no connection with Southwest Asia, that Jesus was white, had blond hair, blue eyes and toured the Middle East on a British passport. They fly into a rage when it is suggested that Jesus was a Jew, had black hair, black eyes, brown skin and only spoke Aramaic. Now really watch the sparks fly when you tell him the Aramaic word for God and as Jesus only spoke Aramaic.......................!

Boaz,

Since I’m sure that you would never be condescending enough to imply that the meaning non-religious people find in their lives isn’t actually meaningful at all, I’m going to assume that you meant “ultimately meaningless” rather than “otherwise meaningless” when you said:

<<Yes..we need 'qualified' counsellors, those who can at least offer enquiring children a ray of divine light & hope in an otherwise meaningless cosmos>>

Because ultimately, in the end, the universe IS meaningless, but we can’t change the fact by simply making something up. Nor does the ability of religions to create some ultimate and eternal meaningfulness say anything about the truth of their claims.

WAU,

Christianity is, in every sense of the word, a religion...
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=define:religion&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

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