Do atheists indocrinate their children into their belief system?

I'm sorry, but that doesn't work

what is good for some is not good for others

think about indoctrinating people to believe that it's good for them to blow themselves up in a bus stop full of bypassers, because that'll make them go to heaven

is that good?

 

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It's horrible to you because of your own subjective ideas. To those priests it is not horrible, it's good.
Now what ?

 

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Not from my subjective viewpoint

 

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Is that why the LTTE does it? They are Marxists and they are teh ones who started it.

 

Right.......................but those priests are deluded into believing fantasy over reality

What is good by my definition is that which is beneficial

Clearly doing that to a kid is not beneficial by any OBJECTIVE means...

 

irrelevant

we're not discussing religion, we're discussing indoctrination

 

that's why indoctrination is bad

 

LTTE and Marxism doesn't have issues of indoctrination?

 

Exactly..

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So we all better do what you say because you define what is good ?

What is.. ?

 

They have seventeen year olds doing it and they are atheists. What kind of indoctrination are they using?

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No, you only showed a few RADICAL forms of indoctrination thats bad

I'm talking about indonctrinating someone not to steal, lie, cheat, kill, etc...

Would you consider that bad?

 

In this case yeah, A LOT better

What you described...

 

have you read the thread?

 

have you, also, read the thread?

did you see that bit where I said it's not a matter of religion, it is a matter of conviction?

 

Ok God..

What is objectively beneficial in this context ?

 

i think that teaching morals is very desirable
indoctrination though, is bad

 

is it a matter of going of heaven though?

What is the conviction they have?

 

how do you propose to teach morals without indoctrination?

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sam, pay attention
at the point i cited that as an example, we were discussing subjective forms of good

probably hate

 

children are not stupid
you can teach them by making them understand that things that they don't want for themselves shouldn't be done to others
and more important, you teach them by giving your own example

not by brainwashing them