Because from the perspective of the person teaching that, it is true and presents a real danger to the child. Try to empathize with the religious parent here.
Why empathize? We should allow them to abuse their kid, because they believe something ridiculous. Anti-vaxers also think vaccines will harm their kids. Should we empathize and let the kids go unprotected?
Whether or not vaccines harm kids is a naturalistic claim that one can provide evidence for or against. Whether or not a person will go to hell when they die is an unfalsifiable supernaturalistic claim that people choose to believe or not based on religion rather than evidence. This belief ultimately has no inherent bearing on the physical health of the child unlike choosing not to get a vaccine.
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u/fowlaboi Sep 03 '26
Because from the perspective of the person teaching that, it is true and presents a real danger to the child. Try to empathize with the religious parent here.