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Why is indoctrinating children into religion abusive?
Denies Development: Children need to explore, question, and learn to think critically for healthy cognitive and emotional growth. Indoctrination actively suppresses this.
Exploits Vulnerability: Children are inherently trusting and dependent. Imposing absolute beliefs exploits this power imbalance.
Causes Psychological Harm: Enforcing rigid dogma often uses fear, shame, or isolation to punish doubt, causing lasting anxiety and impairing self-trust.
Violates Autonomy: It fundamentally disrespects the child's future right and capacity to form their own beliefs and identity.
This harm doesn't just come to children, but also to the people around those who grow up indoctrinated.
For example, there are a lot of adults in America today who have been indoctrinated into various Christian faiths, and now, as a result, lack tolerance for those of us who don't share their beliefs (and believe they have a right to force their beliefs on the rest of us, repeating the cycle of abuse that was carried out on them as children, who were forced into a religion without being able to question it).
