Tuesday, May 25, 2021

Religious liberty for children - why the First Amendment applies to children as well

 I am an ultra-conservative Christian conservative, and am willing to raise children. Many people stereotype conservative parents as pushy and demanding. I myself am not like that with children and would not push my religious beliefs.

Amendment I of the United States Constitution, Bill of Rights, states:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging of the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Congress for a redress of grievances.

Therefore, punishing a child for not believing what I believe is the core definition and understanding of religious child abuse, and it happens all the time. Religious child abuse is not religion itself, but pairing religion with punishment. Any false association between God and punishment of children in the brain is absolute proof of religious child abuse. My Christian values prohibit any sort of control of children using religion, as well as any religious instruction reliant on punishment or control of a child. There is no "beating the devil out of them", as that is evil and wicked, with American parents needing a good attitude adjustment. Whip them 40 lashes in the courtroom, once everything's banned.

It says in Ephesians 6:4 KJV:

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to anger, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

The Greek root word translated "nurture" is παιδεία (Latin: paideia) and refers to exemplary teaching for children, meaning disciplining oneself in relation to children, thus modeling religious custom to children, instead of imposing it on them, with some verbal instruction on the Bible, ideally. The Greek root word translated "admonition" is νουθεσία (Latin: nouthesia) and refers to verbally setting limits and boundaries as to what is acceptable and what isn't in society. This wasn't backed up by punishment, but vulnerable trust in parents. 

Punishment of any kind was unlawful under Jewish law, as the Greek root word translated "provoke...to wrath" is παροργιζο (Latin: parorgizo) and refers to damages, meaning the slightest of personal slights against the honor of a child, meaning anything that the child finds offensive enough to bring forth charges against the adult. Forcing a child to adhere to a religion they didn't believe in would be one of the charged that could be brought forth under this moral statute, backed up by repetition in Col. 3:21. Religious instruction should be voluntary, and age appropriate. Showing images of Hell to a 3-year-old is frightening to them. I would teach about Hell, but more when they are teenagers? Most children, I'd imagine, would go by their parents' beliefs if they were raised in an attached environment, and much of the faith would passed down by example. If my child suddenly hated religion, I'd wonder who at church was doing what to her, and generally that would be an obvious sign of sexual abuse of the religious sort. 

Parenting in ancient Israel was attachment-based, meaning mothers especially were close to their children, with children up to age 3 being considered infants, and co-sleeping being the norm in that culture. The rod of correction was simply a switch used in the form of judicial corporal punishment.

We are coming for you, dear parents. Do not blaspheme God by pairing Him with punishment in your child's eyes. The good God from Above will devour and destroy everything parental rights, and His allies at children's rights will spit these parents out, and into a corner, and after most all parents are converted, they will be swung out like golf balls, into the everlasting fire of Hell!

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