mikl Posted August 1, 2014 Posted August 1, 2014 It just struck me that there seems to be a powerful correlation between religion and violent parenting.It might be a coincidence, but the western european countries that disallowed or restricted violent parenting in the seventies and eighties seems to have slipped into complete religious apathy within a single generation. In Denmark, many people still call themselves christian, but they mean almost nothing by it. They usually only visit the church for christmas, weddings and funerals.Conversely, USA is probably the most violent of the western cultures, and also the only place of them, where religion hasn't “given up the ghost” yet (ie. it is still a powerful force in society). And in the middle east where Islam flourishes, children are raised in the most reprensible fashion, so violent and debilitating probably even the most fundie christians would consider it “slightly over the top”. I wonder, could it be shown that religion requires violent parenting to inflict the required doublethink and self-flaggelation for religion to really take hold in the majority of children?
jacbot Posted August 1, 2014 Posted August 1, 2014 Yes,.., this is accurate.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden Sweden was the first country in the world to outlaw corporal punishment of children by their parents (parents' right to spank their own children was first removed in 1966, and it was explicitly prohibited by law from July 1979).[90] Note: a religeous group sued the Swedish government in 1983 for the right to spank their kinds, this was struck down.
mikl Posted August 1, 2014 Author Posted August 1, 2014 Yeah, I think Sweden (if you discount the huge population of muslim immigrants) is one of the most secular/atheist countries in the world (just 17% of the population considered religion as an important part of their daily life in 2009).
Slavik Posted August 1, 2014 Posted August 1, 2014 I was thinking about it, here is a thought though. Even though Sweden is less religious, it is still very government reliant, which is on par with religion in my pinion. Government also relies on a huge amount of inflicted "doublethink"
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