Full citations from the video from Bible Gateway:

• Exodus 35:2 – For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it must be put to death.
• Deuteronomy 21:18-21 – If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town. They shall say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard.” Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid.
• Leviticus 20:13 – If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads.
• Deuteronomy 22:13-21 – If a man takes a wife and, after lying with her, dislikes her and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity,” then the girl’s father and mother shall bring proof that she was a virgin to the town elders at the gate. The girl’s father will say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her. Now he has slandered her and said, ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.’ But here is the proof of my daughter’s virginity.” Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town, and the elders shall take the man and punish him. They shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the girl’s father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives. If, however, the charge is true and no proof of the girl’s virginity can be found, she shall be brought to the door of her father’s house and there the men of her town shall stone her to death. She has done a disgraceful thing in Israel by being promiscuous while still in her father’s house. You must purge the evil from among you.
• Exodus 21:20-21 – If a man beats his male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies as a direct result, he must be punished, but he is not to be punished if the slave gets up after a day or two, since the slave is his property.
• Colossians 3:22-24 – Slaves, obey your earthly masters in everything; and do it, not only when their eye is on you and to win their favor, but with sincerity of heart and reverence for the Lord. Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving.
• Ephesians 6:5 – Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ.
• 1 Peter 2:18 – Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh.

These quotes are from the New International Version. Similar quotes can be found for older versions and other languages if you prefer. So, is this the book of our benevolent Saviour?

Indocrination : Teaching someone to accept doctrines uncritically

Indocrination of children into religion should be considered a crime and punished as such.

Although the different levels of indocrination may sometimes have light-years difference in their long term effects on children behaviour, all are bad and even those that advertise harmlessness should be avoided at all costs.

I, for example, was baptized as a child and even though no harm has been brought to me it did me no good either and can be seen as basically just a waste of time for the parents and the child.

Worse cases of indocrination [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9] are not only a huge waste of children time but worse… they are a destructive agent of their personality hindering for ever many of the basic capabilities an adult should have.

Indocrination promotes segregation. In many religions children are not only separated by genres but also religion. They do not have the opportunity to socialize with people from different beliefs which would promote questioning and doubt, the essential foundations of our current civilization.

Indocrination promotes self-certainty. Children when left by themselves learn the right way, by observing, questioning and experimenting. Indocrination sets them prisioners of unproved, untested, unfounded and illogical beliefs. Makes them part of a society that doesn’t think, doesn’t ask and doesn’t care.

Indocrination promoted fear. Fear of forbidden things, fear of being observed by the great saviour that floats above us. Fear of talking and discussing what, as indocrinated, is sacred and should not be doubted.

Fear, self-certainty and segregation work circularly. Segregation doesn’t allow them to talk with others of different beliefs leading to lack of knowledge interchange, fear doesnt allow them to break the rules they were set to follow and cannot test or disprove, and self-certainty doesn’t allow them to ask themselves why they should have fear, why they should follow the rules or why these rules exist in the first place.

Nowhere people think, for example, that children should be indocrinated with their parents politics views. So, why religion? We let children grow first so that they can then make a wise, concious decision regarding politics. Why not the same for religion?

I would applause a parent, who while not indocrinating his child into their own religion, would accept his child when adult adopting beliefs contrary to their own.

My take, however, for the need for religion to be indocrinated instead of adopted is that children left to try the world on their own would live happily ever after without it. They would be the first to understand that religion is a land mine camp beneath a beautiful garden.

Religious indocrination is harmful, should be considered dangerous and avoided for the greater good of humanity!