Teach him skeptical and critical thinking.
Tell him to check the logic behind statements.
That should enable him to make up his own mind when he is mature enough to cross that line.
Why in almost all the countries, where Christians are in minorities, they always complain about persecution ?
And why they embrace extremism so easily ?
Why in almost all the countries, where Christians are in minorities, they always complain about persecution ?
And why they embrace extremism so easily ?
Hey, after all the bible includes a handbook about slavery!
Its the perfect religion to keep the "lower" classes in their place...
(And I think that was the reason the romans accepted it as their state religion back under Constantin)
...an minimum age restriction? After all, you have to be 18 to buy tobacco where I com from and 16 to get a beer in a pub. I believe you must even be 21 in some states in the US!
If religion is a drug, shouldn't government ensure, that kids under the AGWof, say 18, don't get any exposure to it?
If I meet a marxist, communist or nazi, then I can ridicule and condemn his political opinion any way I want to and try to humble him in a debate with facts and figures. And as long as neither party resorts to violence, it's socially ok and acceptable.
If I try to do the same about some ones...
Use google, wikipedia and get some books through amazon (or at your local bookshop) Its a big research challenge.
I 'wouldn't suggest talking to hard liners from a religion before you know a bit about them. People try to "sell" the easy points in their believe and ignore the problem areas. So...