Religion's Effect On Young People

Religion's Effect On Young People

I'm not religious sooo, you probably feel I have no right to discuss Religion's effects on young people. You also feel that I don't know what I'm talking about or that I'm just making shit up. On all accounts, you're probably right. However, the purpose of this blog is to give you some food for thought (whether you agree or not).

Ninety percent of us can't remember what life effects happened to us when we were five years old. I know I don't. However, what do you think is going on a small child's forming brain when he or she sees a guy in anguish, bleeding from both hands and feet, because they were nailed to a cross? Even though I don't know shit, I don't think that could be a good thing.

What do you think a young child believes when he or she confronted by a religious adult man who says gay people are sinners or worst less that human. Even though I don't know shit, if that bigoted point of view is also coming from that child's parents, that small vulnerable child will probably live life with bigoted feelings inside.

What do you think a five or eight year old believes when he or she is told over and over again that GOD (any GOD - Jewish, Christian, Muslim, etc.) will set their path. That GOD's will is why things good or bad happen. That everything you do must be in the name of GOD. That what's in the Bible, Torah, Koran, etc. is the truth and must be followed without question. Even though I don't know shit, I do know that nobody has seen, touched or heard this GOD and he only exists because a human being says he exists.

Even though I don't know shit, I'm sure a human being or beings a long, long time ago wrote the words that are in these books. Their attitudes and prejudices were the attitudes and prejudices of that time not what's really going on today.

Even though I don't know shit, I can't believe those attitudes and prejudices should be brainwashed into a five or eight year old.

You religious people probably hate me by now, but do you really want some religion to tell your children what they must believe in, how they must act and what path they have to follow? 

I have no business telling anyone how to raise their children. However, all I'm asking is that, as parents, don't let a beautiful forming young brain be created by others. Tell your children that the religion you follow is not the only religion. Tell your children that the attitudes and prejudices of that religion are not the attitudes and prejudices of many other people. Tell your children that most importantly;

When they grow up, they have the right and the need to choose their path to happiness.