Religious indoctrination is not appropriate for children. Children are trained to accept religious ideas because a normally rational, intelligent, adult never would accept these ideas as an adult if they were not trained that way as a child.
Aside from my personal experience, it just stands to reason, children do not have adult faculties for detecting truth and logic. All religions have supernatural assumptions that cannot be proved or disproved and must be accepted on faith. If religions were more ethical they would behave like the Greek Mystery schools and not accept new members until these people reached adulthood; instead of trying to brainwash the vulnerable children before they know any better.
Ethical teaching and good personal habits are part of essential training for children, but supernatural justifications are not.
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William Schaeffer
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