Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

In this episode, I'm going to be rebutting a video from Thereman Trees.

It seems to be an atheist or at least a non-religious YouTube channel.

In the video, the narrator, he makes an argument, it's not against religion itself, but against

something religious people often do, which would be teaching their children religious stories

and values, or taking their children to religious ceremonies like receiving communion or baptism.

It says this is like abusive indoctrination.

So I'm going to show in this video why even an atheist should tolerate these behaviors

he disagrees with, even as someone like me, I tolerate an atheist raising his children

with atheistic values.

Parents teaching their children about religion is not an abusive kind of indoctrination.

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So now without further ado, here is my rebuttal of Thereman Trees.

On the question of whether religious instruction is valuable education or abusive indoctrination.

Thomas and Uma are lifelong supporters of a major political party in their country.

After five years together, they have their first child, Ben.

They invite their friends and family to a ceremony, where the baby's hand is painted in

the party color and pressed against a ballot paper.

The assembled company cheers its approval, and the minister joyfully announces that their

political party has just gained its newest member.

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