Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Pookie
I think you're mistaking self awareness with innocence and also over simplifying.
Children's minds are not "authentic, sincere, genuine, insightful etc", they are under developed. Perfect time to instil ancient myths which have NO basis in fact in their susceptible minds.
That's why children believe in unicorns and fairytales. The only difference between religious stories and other fairy tales is that at some point a child will realise the non religious fairy tales are just that.
My children are lucky that they are growing up in a place where religion is not totally pervasive. And my daughter is already working out the bullshit.
And for that I am grateful. I don't want her fantastic, bright, joyful mind cluttered up with bullshit. Child abuse  . |
you need to catch up on some
Joseph Campbell to get a better understanding of the true purpose of myth/religion in culture, you have quite a misunderstanding. The historicity of myth is irrelevant in fact, to the overall purpose of transmitting culture through the active experience of myth. For children and adults alike mythology and religion are not events in the history book, they are active in the third-eye imagination of the present, helping to guide, explain and give purpose and meaning to present and future. Myth provides identity, significance, and meaning to many things, and by the way, in very positive psychological and sociological ways. Myth is not merely a control mechanism of various authorities, myth dwells in the believer not the deceiver, and in the life and mind of the believer it is not the historicity, but the substance. Catch up back on your Campbell, you will get blown away and never look at religion the same. It is not about dogmatism, it is about awareness.
By the way the age group I am referring to is around 8-13, who are most definitily children (just talk to them and see) and yet by no means believe in fairies and magic...
but this is for another thread entirely.
by the way, do you also let your kids be cluttered up with a bunch of corporate brain washing commercialism/materialistic bullshit as well? Or do you just throw out the only pedagogy with some cultural substance and leave the superficial bullshit to clutter away
