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How can you force someone to practice religion? Either they have voluntarily made the decision to follow God, or they haven't. You can't force someone to do that. You can't force people to take care of widow and the fatherless or to keep themselves unspotted from the world.
In fact, it's the very voluntariness of exercising faith that allows the power of God to flow into the lives of the faithful. God won't force his power upon us. It only falls on us through voluntarily exercising faith to keep His commandments.
"How can you force someone to practice religion? Either they have voluntarily made the decision to follow God, or they haven't."
when children are indoctrinated at an early age you are reducing/eliminating their choices as an adult. (at least for MOST people)
MOST people are (catholic, protestant,jewish,islamic...etc..) simply because their parents were and they were indoctrinated at an early age.
it isn't actually FORCE but it is certainly brainwashing and indoctrination....
"give me the child and I'll have the man"
some people break the chains of their early indoctrination but it seems that MOST don't
It's at least nice to see that many admit that teaching an idealogy to a child is forcing them to believe in that idealogy, and has great influence over them as far as what kind of adult they become. And that works both ways from both sides of the political spectrum. Maybe that's why many parents don't want schools teaching sex education and giving children the impression that sex is a casual thing and to be taken lightly. Why is that influence any different or less 'forceful' than any other thing taught that you may find offensive from your political perspective? The simple answer is that it's not, yet it's excused when not tied to religion, which is bullshit.