Religious Discrimination in the USA

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

I'm not saying that everyone should go around telling religious people that they can't believe what they want.

Except of course the religious people who believe that immoral behavior (sin) leads to negative consequences (hell)? Because according to you that's child abuse.

I'm sorry your parents were overbearing and probably completely misinterpreted the concepts of sin and forgiveness in the Bible. But that doesn't make all teaching of the concept of an afterlife to be child abuse. You've alluded to other treatment you received which actually is child abuse, and I think you've permanently associated the two, which is unfortunate.

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

Except of course the religious people who believe that immoral behavior (sin) leads to negative consequences (hell)? Because according to you that's child abuse.

I'm sorry your parents were overbearing and probably completely misinterpreted the concepts of sin and forgiveness in the Bible. But that doesn't make all teaching of the concept of an afterlife to be child abuse. You've alluded to other treatment you received which actually is child abuse, and I think you've permanently associated the two, which is unfortunate.

I was not raised Christian or by religious parents of any kind... nice shot in the dark though, keep tryin'.
I never said all concepts of the afterlife child abuse or anything of that nature. I made a very clear, specific, statement, if you read into that, that is your problem.
Belief and action are two, very different, things.
It is anyone's right to be a homophobe or racist... just not to act on it.