If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You have to discipline your children, or they won't respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else.
Those children who are beaten will in turn give beatings, those who are intimidated will be intimidating, those who are humiliated will impose humiliation, and those whose souls are murdered will murder.
That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
I've never been a believer in the physical punishment of children. I don't think it is necessary.
We are punished by our sins, not for them.
What's done to children, they will do to society.
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
I am not going to condemn anybody. That's where religion gets a bad name, when people get holier than thou. We are all human. If my children make a mistake, I want them to know it is all right and they should try harder next time.
Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?