I think telling your kids “people who don’t believe in god (specifically the one I’ve just described) will go to hell” is child abuse. Not only because it makes it so hard to relate to other kids, many of whose parents are programming them with different gods, but especially because it can create enormous fear in the child, for themselves.

I recognize this is a dissenting view, so I hope awareness expands and this form of child abuse disappears.

Teach your gods through love, not through fear.

@22 I'd like to see God-botherers of all stripes teach their gods by example.

Don't tell me God is love. Show me. Better yet, show people whose lives are shitty for no good fucking reason by helping them build lives that aren't as shitty, without judging them or moralizing.

@starbreaker Many missionaries sent to developing countries say that’s what they do.