I recently came across this argument about woke kids T.V. shows indoctrinating kids about political/social issues. I think it's invalid, as bringing your children to religion is different from entertainment taking a side in current divisive political topics. But what do you think?
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My opinion is that indoctrination is bad in general. My kids are growing Christian, I am agnostic but my wife is religious, when they grow a bit I will have a talk about making their own decisions on the matter and that we are going to support them. I do not hold the absolute truth and I do not claim to.
What I hate about indoctrination in TV shows or school is that is not designed to be beneficial to the kid but get future allies in a movement while Christians are doing it because it is believed to be in the best interest of the child, even if it is wrong the decision is under the belief of helping the child.
The TV indoctrination is in no way beneficial, in fact it can be the opposite most of the time - white guilt, unhealthy focus on sexuality, anti capitalism, boys described as dumb or showing boys being boys as bad while a girl playing like a boy is good. All of this create confusion at the very least and makes my job as a parent to grow kids that do not hate themselves harder.
No child who is born Christian grows up without intensely questioning their faith. It's been the most religious people around me who have given the most thought into their own choices and philosophy.
I do wonder though how the children of Atheists grow up. My parents have not been very religious but they were Christians and for some reason I was heavy in to Bible reading for a while and even seriously checked out the LDS church and turned out agnostic in the end :))