The current method christians use to promote and
perpetuate their faith:


Cover up the downsides of religious history, threaten
children with eternal damnation if they don't believe
the christian view, and treat all other religions and
freedom from faith as works of demons or unworthy
of even being studied as to the facts regarding those
religions and freedom from faith?

Yes, that's the path that christians use to perpetuate
their faith.

Moral? No, that's merely treating children as objects
for brainwashing, leading to delusion, confusion, deceit
by parents, and continued slavery for the children, their
children, and so on and so forth, ad infinitum ... in an
endless cycle of brainwashing from one generation to
the next.

There must be a better way ...

Actually, providing choices for children would enable
children to make intelligent decisions about what belief
or disbelief to follow. With a broad background in
religious facts, religious history, and facts regarding
disbelief, our next generation would gird against anti-
human laws prevalent in today's society.

A workable program would continue to allow parents
to teach their faith (per cultural tradition) while providing
children with a broad spectrum of religious facts, ethics,
and fundamentals regarding beliefs and disbeliefs.

There is, I admit, a period of time that starts very early
for some, where society would be hard-pressed to pro-
vide information to a child, with parents tempted to use
brainwashing to achieve their goals. However, at a later
age, programs could be developed to accomplish the
goals of brainwash-protection by providing young chil-
dren with information on the facts of religions, beliefs,
and disbeliefs in schools.

Let me detail a better way for raising our children:

At an early age, children should be provided the facts on
religions, beliefs, and disbeliefs so that they can decide
for themselves what belief or disbelief to adopt as their
own.

Another advantage to dealing with brainwashing through
education at an early age is that education standards
would have to be recognized by all schools, secular and
non-secular, as is the case for reading, writing, and
arithmetic today.

The exact standards vary from state to state, but regard-
less of where a student attends school, education stan-
dards must be met.

Setting a standard that facts regarding religions, beliefs,
and disbeliefs should be taught would simply add another
measure by which student knowledge could be tested
and ascertained to assure they are getting the information
needed to make decisions impacting their lives, their future,
their choices.

Why wait until students are in first grade?

Here's an idea for you - provide tax incentives for daycares
to educate preschoolers on the facts regarding religions,
beliefs, and disbeliefs. I can tell you from personal exper-
ience that many christians like to "god-proof" (brainwash)
their child when they're 3, 4, 5, and the only counter society
has for such "god-proofing" (brainwashing) is to bring the
facts on religions, beliefs, and disbeliefs to the children who
go to daycare.

You would be surprised at the methods used by churches
in America to indoctrinate (brainwash) the very young into
their belief systems. Drawings of Jesus prancing across a
hilltop offering love and eternal life to children, feeding the
hungry, songs of praise, yadayadayadayada.

Why not promote information distribution regarding the
facts on beliefs and disbeliefs?

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Popular song used to seduce little children into the christian faith: Jesus Loves the Little Children ... ... All the children of the world, Red and yellow black and white, They're all precious in his site, Jesus loves the little children of the world. - - - By the way, I, a human being, love all human beings, christians, muslims, hindus, buddhists, jews, gnostics, pagans, atheists, agnostics, humanists, freelovers, freethinkers, all of non-faith/faith/distance from faith, and I, a human being, threaten no one, *ever*, with any torment/punishment should they not feel as I do regarding the wondrous joy and pleasure that can be had by all via a pro-human, pro-love, and pro-freedom life free of faith. } {aside} } } Preface: Note that all of the following } is a simple iteration of fact. For those } who find the facts unappealing, change } the way the world is, don't pretend that } by denial/refusal to acknowledge the } nature of christian faith, you can make } it all go away like a fairy with a magic } wand. } } As long as you leverage your faith } off the christian bible, you're tied to } every aspect of christian faith iterated } in this post - you cannot, logically, } reasonably, non-pretentiously, support } a faith based on the christian bible by } simply pretending the following does not } exist or is irrelevant to the aspects of } faith that you happen to like while you } go about your life in denial as if the } downsides of christian faith don't exist } except "by them" (those not of your so- } called doctrinal liberal sanctimonious } pretentious superiority by virtue of } your denial of responsibility for every } aspect of faith not one with positive } characteristics in a secular modern } world). } } {end aside} The above (a song sung/taught to children in most christian churches), one example of the extent of brain- washing many (most?) Americans put their children through (a not so subtle implication/message to children being that not believing Jesus loves you makes you bad/evil). So, the message we have from the song is that Jesus is good, believe in Jesus, and Jesus died for you. Not mentioned in the song: By the way, believe this or burn in hell, forever, iterated through much of Chris- tianity, denied or distanced from by some (unspecified) number of Christians. Tragically, many children are inflicted with that hell meme (via hellfire and brimstone pastors, the christian bible, and subtle 'hints' from even the most liberal of christian establishments) while the love of Jesus is bragged about openly (and brainwashed into children as = to good while not believing is claimed = to bad). Difficult for many (most?) children to overcome all that guilt force fed into them from childhood ... And this, many (most?) Americans feel compelled to put their children through ... But, the children grow up and (some, many, most?) come to realize they've been lied to/misled, by their parents and church authority figures and society and culture, and they must deal with those lies/deception (and the absurdity/ pretentiousness of the society/culture in which they find themselves) for their entire lives ... - - - Christian roots? A long journey of sacrifice, pain, and death, inspired by God (so the bible claims), for animals, men, women, and children ... The following are some of God's death instructions impacting children - see the following link for a more complete list of violence/cruelty in the bible, causing many folks to see pro-humanism and God worship as polar opposites: God, the mass murderer. Genesis 7:4, 19:24 God threatens to kill the Pharaoh's firstborn son. Exodus 4:23 God murders the Egyptian firstborn humans and animals. Exodus 12:30 Children who strike their parents are to be killed. Exodus 21:15 God kills Aaron's sons for offering "strange fire before the Lord." Leviticus 10:1-2 Children who curse their parents, adulterers, and homosexuals must be killed. Leviticus 20:9-12 The unchaste daughters of priests must be burnt to death. Leviticus 21:9 God will "send wild beasts among you, which shall rob your of your children." Leviticus 26:22 "And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat." Leviticus 26:30 God kills Aaron's sons for offering "strange fire before the Lord." Numbers 3:4, 26:61 God hardens King Sihon's spirit and then kills him and all the men, women, and "little ones" in his kingdom. Deuteronomy 2:30-34 God delivers Og into Moses' hands, who then kills every man, woman, and child in every city. Deuteronomy 3:3-6 God tells the Israelites to kill everyone in the lands that they conquer and to "show no mercy unto them." Deuteronomy 7:2 Kill any friends or family that worship a god that is different than your own. Deuteronomy 13:6-10 Kill all the inhabitants of any city where you find people that worship differently than you. Deuteronomy 13:12-16 Kill everyone who has religious views that are different than your own. Deuteronomy 17:2-7 Kill anyone who refuses to listen to a priest. Deuteronomy 17:12-13 Kill all the men and boys in the cities that God "delivers into your hands," but keep the women for yourself. Deuteronomy 20:13-15 Kill everything that breathes in the cities that God gives you for an inheritance. Deuteronomy 20:16 Kill rebellious or disobedient sons. Deuteronomy 21:18-21 Kill rape victims if they fail to cry out loud enough. Deuteronomy 22:23-34 If you misbehave, God will make you eat your sons and daughters. Deuteronomy 28:53, 28:55 28:56-67 Don't make God angry or he'll burn or starve you to death. If that fails, he'll have some animals eat you or snakes bite you. As a last resort he'll kill you with "the sword without, and terror within." He'll "destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs." Deuteronomy 32:23-25 Joshua killed "everything that breathed" in each of the cities that he conquered, "as the Lord God of Israel commanded." Joshua 6:21, 8:24-26, 10:28-29, 10:32-33, 10:35, 10:37, 10:38, 10:40, 11:8, 11:11, 11:12, 11:14, 11:21 If you happen to see "the accursed thing," don't touch it. If you do, you, your family, and all of your animals must be burned. Joshua 7:1-26 God gets right in and fights with the Israelites. He "slew them with a great slaughter" and even "chased them along the way." What a guy. Joshua 10:10 God threw down "great stones from heaven" so that he could kill even more people than the Israelites "slew with the sword." Joshua 10:11 Jephthah sacrifices his daughter to God. Judges 11:29-39 God orders Saul to kill every Amalekite "man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass." 1 Samuel 15:3 David kills all the Amalekites again (see 15:7-8 where Saul kills them all the first time). 1 Samuel 27:8-11 To punish David for having Uriah killed, God kills David's newborn son. 2 Samuel 12:15, 18 God kills a couple hundred thousand people to punish David for having a census. 2 Samuel 24:15 Laying the foundation for a city using your firstborn child and using your youngest son to set up the gates. 1 Kings 16:34 When many people are needlessly slaughtered, you will know that the Lord is God. 1 Kings 20:28 God sends two bears to rip up 42 little children for making fun of Elisha's bald head. 2 Kings 2:23-24 Mothers boiling and eating their own children. 2 Kings 6:28-29 God sends a famine on the people that lasts for seven years. 2 Kings 8:1 The 70 sons of Ahab are killed and their heads are put in baskets. 2 Kings 10:7-8 Jehu shows off his "zeal for the Lord" by murdering everyone in Samaria. 2 Kings 10:16-17 God sends lions to devour the Samaritans because "they knew not the manner of the God of the land." 2 Kings 17:25-26 David tortures all the inhabitants of several cities with saws, harrows of iron, and axes. 1 Chronicles 20:3 God kills the king of Israel and helps Abijah kill 500,000 Israelites. 2 Chronicles 13:15-20 In the largest single God-assisted massacre in the bible, Asa kills one million Ethiopians. 2 Chronicles 14:8-13 Whoever does not seek the God of Israel should be executed. 2 Chronicles 15:13 God killed the women and children of Judah and smote the men with an incurable disease of the bowels until their "bowels fell out." 2 Chronicles 21:14-19 Amaziah, with God's help, kills 10,000 people; another 10,000 he leaves alive so that he can throw them off a cliff and break them in pieces. 2 Chronicles 25:11-12 Pekah kills 120,000 people in one day "because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers". 2 Chronicles 28:6, 8 God sends the king of the Chaldees to kill all the "young men with the sword." He had "no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all into his hand." 2 Chronicles 36:16-17

Esther has Haman's ten sons hung. Est.9:13 God (or Satan) kills Job's children in a windstorm. Job 1:19 God will rain fire and brimstone upon "wicked" people. Psalms 11:6 The God of Peace teaches us to kill our neighbors in war. Psalms 18:34 If God doesn't like you, he'll burn you to death. Psalms 21:9 If you forget God he will tear you in pieces. Psalms 50:22 If you don't trust God, he'll kill you, and while you're dying the "righteous" will laugh at you. Psalms 52:5-6 "The righteous" will rejoice when they see "the wicked" being dismembered by God. They'll "wash their feet in the blood of the wicked." Psalms 58:10 God will "fill the places with dead bodies." Psalms 110:6 God is praised for slaughtering little babies. Psalms 135:8, 136:10 Happiness is smashing your little children against rocks. Psalms 137:9 A prayer that God will burn people to death. Psalms 140:10 Beat the hell out of your children. Proverbs 13:24, 19:18, 22:15, 23:13-14, 29:15 "The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil; so do stripes the inward parts of the belly." Proverbs 20:30 Beat your slaves just like you do your children. Don't try to correct them with words. Proverbs 29:19 If you mock your father or disobey your mother, the ravens will pick out your eyeballs and feed them to the eagles. Proverbs 30:17 If God can find you, he will "thrust you through," smash your children "to pieces" before your eyes, and rape your wife. Isaiah 13:15-18 God will kill the young men in war and starve their children to death. Jeremiah 11:22-23 God's sword will "devour" everyone until "no flesh shall have peace." Jeremiah 12:12 God will make everyone drunk and then "dash the fathers and the sons together." He vows to "not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy, but destroy them." Jeremiah 13:13-14 God promises to kill everyone by war, starvation, and disease. Jeremiah 14:12,24:10, 29:17-18, 42:17-18, 22 God has ordained that everyone "shall die of grievous deaths," and that they shall neither "be lamented" nor even buried, but "they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth." Jeremiah 16:3-4 When the people ask why God is killing everyone, God answers by saying, "Because your fathers have forsaken me." Jeremiah 16:10 Jeremiah asks God to kill the young men in war and the children by starvation. Jeremiah 18:21 God will make parents eat their own children, and friends eat each other. Jeremiah 19:7-9 God will kill everyone, "both man and beast," with a "great pestilence." Jeremiah 21:6 God will force all of Israel to "be drunken." Then, he'll kill them all with a sword. Jeremiah 24:27-28 God will kill so many people that the entire earth will be covered with their dead bodies. No one is to mourn them or even bury them, "they shall be as dung upon the ground." Jeremiah 25:33 Even those Jews that flee to Egypt will not be spared. God will hunt them down and kill them all with war, famine, and disease. Jeremiah 44:12-13 God will cause the daughters of Rabbah to be burned to death. Jeremiah 49:2 God will "break in pieces" pretty much everyone and everything he can think of.. Jeremiah 51:21-23 God will cause fathers to eat their sons and sons to eat their fathers. Ezekiel 5:10 God plans to kill everyone with plagues, famines, and wars. But if any still survive, then he'll send beasts to devour them. Ezekiel 5:17 God plans to decorate the land with human bones and dead bodies. Ezekiel 6:5 Nebuchadnezzar orders those who accused Daniel (including their wives and children) to be cast into the lions den. Daniel 6:24 God assures Hosea that he will "slay even the beloved fruit of the womb." Hosea 9:16 God promises to dash to pieces the infants of Samaria and "their women with child shall be ripped up." Hosea 13:16 Jesus strongly approves of the law and the prophets. He hasn't the slightest objection to the cruelties of the Old Testament. Matthew 5:17 Jesus says that most people are going to hell. Matthew 7:13-14 Families will be torn apart because of Jesus. "Brother shall deliver up the brother to death, and the father the child: and the children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death. Matthew 10:21 Jesus condemns entire cities to dreadful deaths and to the eternal torment of hell because they didn't care for his preaching. Matthew 11:20-24 Jesus will send his angels to gather up "all that offend" and they "shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth." Matthew 13:41-42, 50 Jesus is criticized by the Pharisees for not washing his hands before eating. He defends himself by attacking them for not killing disobedient children according to the commandment: "He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death." Matthew 15:4-7 Any city that doesn't "receive" the followers of Jesus will be destroyed in a manner even more savage than that of Sodom and Gomorrah. Mark 6:11 Jesus criticizes the Jews for not killing their disobedient children according to Old Testament law. Mark 7:9 Jesus tells us to cut off our hands and feet, and pluck out our eyes to avoid going to hell. Mark 9:43 Jesus says that entire cities will be violently destroyed and the inhabitants "thrust down to hell" for not "receiving" his disciples. Luke 10:10-15 Jesus says that we should fear God since he has the power to kill us and then torture us forever in hell. Luke 12:5 All of the vicious Old Testament laws will be binding forever. Luke 16:17 Those who, for whatever reason, do not believe in Jesus are tormented forever in hell. John 3:18 Jesus says that the wrath of God" is on all unbelievers. John 3:36 Those who do not believe in Jesus will be cast into a fire to be burned. John 15:6 God will torture forever those who don't know the password to heaven. Acts 4:12 Jesus will take "vengeance on them that know not God" by burning them forever "in flaming fire." 2 Thessalonians 1:7-9 God gives Death and Hell the task of indiscriminately killing one quarter of the earth's human population with the sword, starvation, and "with the beasts of the earth." Revelations 6:8 Four angels, with an army of 200 million, killed a third of the earth's population. Revelations 9:15-19 God will have people killed by fire, plagues, and beasts. There will be dead bodies rotting, unburied everywhere. And those that are not killed by God (the Christians?) will "rejoice over them [the dead nonchristians?] and make merry, and shall send gifts to one another." Revelations 11:5-10 God will send fire from heaven to devour people. Revelations 20:9-10 Whoever isn't found listed in the book of life will be cast into the lake of fire. Revelations 20:15 Those who are fearful or unbelieving will be cast into "the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone." Revelations 21:8 - - - By the way, there is no evidence God exists other than the ______ [fill in word here] like that presented above. It would appear that the evidence is overwhelming that humans made up the God/sacrifice stuff and that Gods/sacrifices the world over are evidence of humankind's journey from the depths of ignorance and fear to (hopefully, some day, if humankind can stop the pernicious and evil brainwashing / guilt tripping of children into blind faith routine) ... A natural, deep, and meaningful understanding of our true nature in a natural god-free world. For a more sane, rational, caring, considerate, just, worthy, fulfilling, pro-freedom, pro-loving, pro-children, pro-human, and peaceful way to live out your one and only sure shot at life, on this earth, at this time, refer to Pro-Humanist FREELOVER principles.