Of course it is child abuse. In some parts of America today they have after school people who move in to teach children that they are sinners. This was questioned in court and it was found that they could no longer use school property for this. The Good News Club of the religious right would have your child crying because they have "sinned" and much of America still goes along with it. I personally think that the club and the participating school should be sued to the max.

I attended sunday school from the age of 5 to 15 in the Church of Scotland, which is quite puritanical compared to some branches of Christianity but I cannot remember any of this. It was something I had to do which spoiled my sunday but that is all. Maybe it was because we had no Christian rituals or indoctrination at home.

It requires us to learn about ourselves and no longer rely on the mystic and make believe world to realize the truth and science. Forcing children to learn that is definitely abusive.

It certainly is child abuse. I grew up with a very similar story, myself.

are babtists baptists that babble a lot?

I understand and can relate. I jettisoned the idea of god from my life long ago, and those ideas are not welcome back. I still occasionally find a stain in some far-off corner of my psyche, evidence of that idea. I do my best to scrub them out as I find them.

yeah, abuse