Young children should not be forced into religion.

Onto your points, You say "Should we be allowing our children to do what ever they want or what's best for them, or should I choose what's best for them". We should always do what's best for our children of course but I don't feel forcing them into a religion is doing what's best for them. Many parents feel it is but at the same time that doesn't make it right. I have already explained why I feel this way in the previous round so there is no need in repeating themselves. You say, "A simple solution which many parents employ is to have their children attend but do not force them to believe the teachings." I am sorry but this statement is invalid to the debate topic as the topic is "Young children should not be forced into religion", and not "Are young children always forced into religion". As a result of this we are obviously then talking about the parents who do force their children into religion and whether or not it is right when children are forced into religion. We are not posing the question "do all parents force their kids into religion". There is a big difference between the two. This then applies to your statement where you say "this is beneficial to both parties as it allows the children to form their own opinions which they can make when their older and it does not put pressure on the parents to FORCE their children to believe." (I fixed your spelling). Funnily enough, this was basically one of my points in the previous round, that it would be a lot better for children to learn about what religion is, rather than just being told to follow it, they would then be able to form their opinion when their older with no bias views on the matter. You say that children will not have a biased opinion if they are not forced to believe. This was my point exactly. Remember I am on the pro side to the notion that young children should not be forced into religion and you are on the con side which means that you are arguing AGAINST the notion that young children SHOULD NOT be forced into religion. Again it is not valid for you to say that they will not have a biased opinion if they are not forced to believe as that is a contradiction to what you are arguing. Please do not alter the topic or your stance on the topic, with all do respect. You say that you see no problem in a young child being told that there is a hell and that if they are bad in their life they will go to it. Apart from it being a superstitious belief and not necessarily true at all, it is a cruel and fearful statement to tell a child, which would most certainly damage them pshycologicaly. You say that "it teaches children that your actions have consequences and are therefore taught that if your good and make good choices you will be rewarded and vice versa." If a child actually does do good deeds because they are told that they will go to hell if they don't, then this is teaching a child to be good solely out of fear, nothing else. How can anyone not see a problem in this? There is absolutely no moral code involved. Instead of a child learning to be good and moral for the sake of being a good person it is teaching them that they better be good and moral or else they're burning in hell. A young impressionable child would then have the mindset of living in constant FEAR of everything they do, just because someone told them that they will go to hell if they are bad. This is disgusting and sad at the same time and follows no sense of morality, just a religious idea forced into a young impressionable child's head. "Many religions actually encourage inquiry and questing in order to increase their understanding. And lots of religions don't teach that god will take care of everything they teach that you have to work and that if you are righteous that god will support you." The truth is that many religions don't encourage inquiry into their own teachings because they feel that they already have a perfectly good explanation for everything. This "explanation" is then told to young children and because they are too young to know any better they believe it as true, despite it just being a superstition. Not only do they believe it as true, it is taught to them as being true. This hinders a child's development as in this case, development of the mind can only be achieved by researching information and posing questions. And yes, religions may not teach the exact principle that God takes care of everything but young children are certainly told that, I know because I was taught that. Creationism is taught in many elementary schools. This is filling children with ideas that we know are just not true and how can you say that teaching children false information is not causing them harm? Maybe it isn't directly causing harm but it certainly is mentally causing harm. I am saying that the idea of what religion is should be taught in school however it should not be taught in a way which is forcing superstitious teachings into an innocent child's head. When the child is older it can then make an educated, thought-out and rational decision on what ideas to follow instead of losing this chance at an extremely early age.