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Ok first off, religion, by default, should not be forced on anyone. So if the parents are insistant about going to church/temple/mousk and their kids are too young to be left at home, they're going to bring there kids regardless of what the gov't says/doesn't say. As to the indoctrination of their children, parents are extremely guilty of forcing religion on their offspring. However they consider it part of the job of raising a kid to be a theoretically moraly right and sensible person. Most kids, however, seem to go through at least one rebelious phase in which they declare their seperation from their inherited religion. This would seem to have solved our little conundrum of the parents forcing religion on their kids, however I would disagree with this. I would say that by pressuring their kids to do one thing, the parents have inevitably forced them to do something else. Thus the child is still not making their own decision. In order for anyone to make their "own" decision, all the options must be laid out and explained in full. As this is very unlikely to happen with someone who is three years old, I'm afraid we are stuck with the current system for the time being. P.S. I apologize if this seems to make no sense but hey, it made perfect sense while I was writing it...
"Balance comes to all things in time. Some make it their duty to tear it apart. It is my duty to balance it out once more."
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