Disobedience is the excuse. I suspect it's more that some folks don't want competition.<br><br>&#63743; &#63743; &#63743; &#63743;<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by yoyo52 on 09/08/07 06:40 PM (server time).</EM></FONT></P>

I wanna cry thinking of those poor children, male and female.<br><br><br><br>

We live in a Christian nation so brainwashing your kids from day one about god and heaven and hell is looked upon as a virtue.<br><br>Most people go along with that.<br><br>But then we have priests who are buggering alter boys and dang that gets in the news but the whole system is fine and we go long with that.<br><br>And then we have fundamentalist Mormons marrying brainwashed 13 year old girls for their 4th wife and we get all huffy? We start getting pis[/i]sed when these girls are being raped at 14? That the boys in these groups are being tossed out? <br><br>Read the story again. Try and think what home schooled education these boys really had when they were tossed out. They were brainwashed.<br><br>Do not indict fundamentalist Mormons for this. Because who is allowing this? Why is Jeffs going to trial this week when he and his father have been doing this for years?<br><br>It is because we allow it. Religion allows it. Christian religion allows it. Because if we flushed all this shi[i]t down the toilet the way we should every religion which brainwashes kids from one year old on would be on trial.<br><br>I read this and every time I hear "God fearing Christian" I want to puke. And to anyone who is annoyed at an atheist's rants, I can only say, sorry, I wish I had a brainwashing pill but they don't exist.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

[Insert snorting, stamping, furious IPU picture here.]<br><br>No kidding, Poly.<br><br>I'm totally with you on this issue.<br><br>

It's only brainwashing when it's twisted into something other than what it was meant to be. To lump all aberrant religious behavior together with all religion is simply simplistic.<br><br>

Then why are we not jailing every polygamist this week? Why are we allowing them to rape girls 13 years old tonight and every night?<br><br>Because it is religion. Because we are hands off religion. Every politician in Utah and Arizona cannot touch them because their citizenry is brainwashed. Yes that is about as simplistic as it gets but why is not every man woman and child Christian not up in arms about that story?<br><br>Every single religion brainwashes their progeny by lying to them. Believe this not because it is true but because you need faith. Lying to kids is sick and it there is a continuous line connected to that lying in every religion all the way to the house of the polygamist with brainwashed kids being raped. Those kids are being treated like that because of their faith. The criminals can get away with it because of their faith.<br><br>I indict all religions that lie to kids. This story points out the extreme. Suicide bombers point out the same extreme. But every religion uses the same tactic. Brainwash the kids before they have a chance.<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

I agree<br><br>Its all religions - At least this boy was not taught to suicide bomb to murder others in the name of Allah or another deity <br><br>The points is that "religion" should be administered by competent people and not by tyrants that who would lead congregations astray of what was intended by their book of teachings.<br><br> IMO<br><br>

I suspect that poly would say that "believer" and "competent" are irreconcilable concepts.<br><br>&#63743; &#63743; &#63743; &#63743;

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Obviously, you've also been brainwashed. <br><br>