Read my webcomic: kanirabaxter.comicgenesis.com Visit the BionicDance store: www.zazzle.com Twitter: twitter.com “The A-Word” Podcast: theaword.podomatic.com Where you live determines which religion you end up in, generally speaking, assuming you have any religion at all; you’re taught by your parents who were taught by their parents, and so on through the generations. If your god is so real and so powerful, shouldn’t ALL religions in the world be the same? And shouldn’t your children come to that conclusion AFTER they’ve gotten past the age where you can easily indoctrinate them? Put it to the test. I dare you. I double-DOG dare you. Music by Kevin MacLeod: incompetech.com Used with permission
@AnnaMayEyes The explanation is simple…three words: People are DUMB.
‘Nuff said, neh? 🙂
Which leads me to wonder why anyone would convert as an adult ever? There are adult converts apparently. ??? I just don’t understand why one would buy into the fairytale nonsense as an ADULT when they were not indoctrinated as children. The only thing I can figure is that they were probably indoctrinated in another religion and have already had their brains damaged into believing in magic and supernatural stories. What would make an atheist convert? Anything?
@bornagain001 so children go to hell? if you say yes and that they deserve it there’s something seriously wrong with you.
@SnarkLicker Seelly eengleesh ka-nigit!
I wasn’t raised religious and now that i’m 23 years old, I’ve subscribed to this channel.
I bailed on Christianity when by the age of only 12, my own dad couldn’t answer ANY of the “common sense” logical questions I had about what I was learning in church. Ahh the good old days of just going with what everyone said was true. Oh hey, I also hear that H.A.A.R.P. is controlling the weather and global earthquakes LOL!!!!!!!!!
You already know the answer…..
I think Saint Ignatius of Loyola summed up the indoctrination of Children best when he said, “Give me the boy until the age of six, and I will give you the man.”
Unlike the Catholic Priest who said “I’ll give a 10 for two 5’s”
Dawkin’s description of Religion as a meme virus is much more apt; that’s why some people can convert so ‘easily’. Currently, I can’t be born white and suddenly become black; I don’t tan, I burn 🙁 However, if someone sneezes near me it’s possible for me to get sick until my immune system defeats the virus 🙂 Reason is our mental immune system. Like some viruses, people just get infected with a religion from birth due to their parents, and their underdeveloped reasoning skills.
Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
True believers should have no problem answering your challenge, because they agree with the premise of your challenge.
Yes, they are afraid their children won’t believe if not indoctrinated when young. They are afraid they won’t believe if they aren’t continually indoctrinated.
People are sinful, wicked creatures, young and old, and need all the encouragement and support they can get to turn from their wickedness and turn to God. That is what believers of the true mettle believe.
that is why most organized religion teaches parents that children are accountable for their own sins… so that parents feel the need to indoctrinate from an early trusting age. The higher ups know that it is the only way 😛
@Keitaro2011 …? “I can never do infinite damage with my sins. God is fully capable of fixing any damage.”
You CAN indeed do infinite damage…to your soul. And God did provide a way to fix it. If you are going to reject HIS PROVISION, why should God override your desire and fix it.
People who aren’t indoctrinated as children either tend to remain non-religious or become what I call a false follower; one who proclaims to be a member of a religion but does not wholeheartedly believe, does not pray or go to church, etc.
Non-theists and false theists are becoming, if not already, the largest demographic in Canada, and very likely the western world. This is due to the increasingly casual attitude toward religion.
If children aren’t taught, they won’t believe. 🙂
@bornagain001 Uh… Yeah, it is finite, actually. I can never do infinite damage with my sins. God is fully capable of fixing any damage. Hell is unjust and deep down, you know it!
@sai10000 …1 Corinthians 2:14-16. You are given the mind of Christ by the Holy Spirit in order to fellowship with God. All a work of the TRINITY of God.
@Keitaro2011 ….YOUR SIN is not finite. It consumes you every day of your life. The problem is that you do not understand the SERIOUSNESS of your SIN and how mich God hates it. He is not about to allow any unrepentant SINNER intoHis perfect Heaven.
@Moh5Itachi1 …in the Bible there is no specific age. There are children that certainly steal and lie and even become sexually immoral before the age of 12. There are even children under 12 that have already hardened their hearts against God.
@bornagain001 You think my children are sinful and should be punished for eternity? That’s seriously messed up. I’m so glad I didn’t poison their minds with this claptrap.
Now I’m curious to know what your going to do when you’ve reached your six hundred and sixty-sixth video (666) XD
@sai10000 Why would an omnipotent God create you in a way that you were incapable of understanding? How do you even know he really is omnipotent or omniscient? You’d have to be omniscient yourself to know. Further, who says that God, if he even exists, HAS to be good and just? He could very well be evil. And really, what you said is just a cop-out, anyway. It’s much harder to actually think about things than it is to just accept things whether they’re right or not.
@DharmaLogos i was raised in a Muslim household and was always taught that if a child dies he goes to heaven no matter what his religion was because children aren’t held accountable until the age of 12-13.
@starfedrogue Very true. That was more or less my point.
@Keitaro2011 I am a finite,limited being,how can I know the mind of a Just,Omni-potent,Omniscient,omnipresent God?
@sai10000 Figures. Tell me, how is hell just? How is it just to torture somebody for eternity for a finite crime?