Religion

A six year old boy speaks his mind when forced to take the microphone, and then is given corporal punishment for doing so.

That doesn't seem to me to be the best way to indoctrinate children into your cult, but, then, that is one cult I would never permit to indoctrinate children in the first place.

My mother-in-law, a kindly soul despite being a practicing Catholic, once took our two daughters (then aged 4 and 6) with her to mass without my knowledge. I was rather upset, and my wife, who had been dragged there as a child, wondered why? I said that 4 and 6 year old children are not old enough to discern for themselves whether or not to believe that some guy was killed, put in a cave sealed with a ten ton boulder, became alive again, tossed aside the boulder, told his dad "beam me up Scotty," and then rose into the sky when his invisible dad accommodated his wish. My wife said, well, sure, when you put it in those terms, it does sound ridiculous. I said, that was my point exactly. Mom-in-law can drag the girls to church when they are old enough to decide for themselves whether or not they wish to go, and whether or not what they hear sounds plausible. I don't blame a 91 year old woman for her beliefs. I blame her long-gone parents for forcing theirs onto her. Our girls are now, at 34 and 36, way past old enough to decide for themselves what they want to believe. So far, their choice is "none of the above," which they arrived at of their own free will. I suspect this six year old boy will arrive at the same conclusion--either that, or he will be beaten into submission, and pass the behavior on, which would one perverse outcome (but, I suspect, a common one).