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In reply to the discussion: The practice of a religion is a choice. Period. [View all]MellowDem
(5,018 posts)and indoctrination. If your tradition involves indoctrination, then it is abusive. Indoctrinating a child in your progressive values is abuse. (In other words, telling them that progressive values are the objective truth, not a preference, and that indeed, if you don't follow them, eternal punishment awaits you, just as a fairly common example of forms of indoctrination that are accepted).
I can fully educate my children in progressive values. I can tell them what values I hold, and why I prefer these values, and none of that is indoctrination. If I never expose them to any other sort of ideas or even go out of my way to shut out other ideas, it's manipulation of a sort and unseemly, to say the least.
Children have the right to not be manipulated and indoctrinated, by their parents or anyone else. It is wrong for parents to indoctrinate their children in any way.
Most people recognize this, but there is a giant exception for religious indoctrination.