Dogma and Child Abuse

When biology works unchallenged, a child exists in the womb at 38 to 40 weeks. It enters the world without any preconceived notions, simply marveled at its new environment. It quickly knows hunger, love and trust. It knows not much else. Its greatest gift, perhaps, is being absent the influence of indoctrinated fear and intentional religious programming.

Children are born absent any ideological doctrine. They are born with an open mind ready to discover the world in a loving and compassionate way, tolerant of all others who show them the same love and trust regardless of their circumstances in life. And where we keep them that way, we often learn more about ourselves in the process of keeping our children free from ideological obedience.

Children are not born knowing any threat of burning in hell if they do wrong. Children are not born knowing that following any superstitious obedience will guarantee them an ability to walk among the clouds in some obscure afterlife.

Children are not born understanding any instruction that they should kill innocent people to earn a harem of virgins and an alternatively obscure afterlife. Or that they should become one of those virgins for the belonging of someone else who would commit such evil.

Children, particularly girls aren’t born believing that they are in anyway subservient because of their gender. They aren’t born feeble-minded and conformist to an ideology that would ultimately dictate nearly every aspect of their life.

All of these ideals are learned; they are taught at the hands of dogmatically fearful slaves to any extremist and unsubstantiated ideology on the planet.

The worst form of dogma exists in brainwashing a child’s free mind full of an imaginary disease while at the same time you try to convince them of an imaginary cure.

Ideology is man-made. Perpetuating these superstitious ideals into the beautiful free minds of children is nothing short of child abuse.

Productive people with humane values serve others on this planet every day, absent any instruction to do so outside of their own good conscious. Yet, those who believe religion is the only cause for such acts would assert that unless they accept a specific god as their master, they are hell-bound.

People of indigenous tribes, who have never heard of God, Allah or any number of other oppressive deities should know hell merely because their geographic circumstances have prevented them from knowing such fables existed?

Atheist doctors, philanthropists, educators, counselors, volunteers at a soup kitchen, or any number of productive and compassionate, law-abiding citizens should burn in hell simply because they do not believe in the irrationalities and hypocrisies of religion?

However, you may be a pedophile, rapist, murderer or any other general cyst on society and still have acceptance among the flock of self-righteous pontificators of delusion simply by professing your obedience to their way and their god.

That is nothing short of gross, irresponsible, and lethally dangerous to the values of a humanity gifted with higher intelligence.

We don’t need religion to be a good people; but we certainly use it to justify our reasons to be a bad people.

We wring our hands in bafflement at the seeming decline of our human civilization, while the solution is quite simple. Stop brainwashing your children full of hateful dogma, and start to see the world become the example of an understanding, moral humanity that they deserve to grow up in.