I just finished watching a nameless documentary that showed teaching children elements of faith that were very bias to the culture of the Christian group. words like "brainwashing" came to mind when watching it but yet I could personally identify at least some of the approaches being a recipient of it myself in my childhood, tt just looked different watching it as an adult observer.
I have a 2yr old and I let him watch faith based media, I read to him bible stories and pray with him and try to enrich his life teaching him the strong faith values I have... but I don't want to brainwash him. I am of course selective with what I expose to him which inevitably exposes my bias for the content. I want him to be impacted not by my world view or by a church's world view but instead by Christ's world view.
I realise this might be impossible in my limits and the concept of emphasising any value over another, christian or not is a form of indoctrination in itself. There's a line of responsible teaching but most christian communities seem to take the approach that Christ can only be interpreted through a specific narrow lense. I rather not teach the gospel according to an astigmatism but instead teach how to remove the lense and see Christ clearly but at the same time emphasising the value of the church. Is this even possible?
I have a 2yr old and I let him watch faith based media, I read to him bible stories and pray with him and try to enrich his life teaching him the strong faith values I have... but I don't want to brainwash him. I am of course selective with what I expose to him which inevitably exposes my bias for the content. I want him to be impacted not by my world view or by a church's world view but instead by Christ's world view.
I realise this might be impossible in my limits and the concept of emphasising any value over another, christian or not is a form of indoctrination in itself. There's a line of responsible teaching but most christian communities seem to take the approach that Christ can only be interpreted through a specific narrow lense. I rather not teach the gospel according to an astigmatism but instead teach how to remove the lense and see Christ clearly but at the same time emphasising the value of the church. Is this even possible?