Is it moral to indoctrinate children knowing that it will compromise their ability to think? Many times it's a life long impairment.
According to the 3 Boston University School of Education researchers (Corriveau, Chen, Harris):
The results suggest that exposure to religious ideas has a powerful impact on children’s differentiation between reality and fiction, not just for religious stories but also for fantastical stories.
The stable difference between secular and religious children across all four story types lends support to the more radical hypothesis. The presence versus absence of a religious education is associated with children’s conviction that ordinarily impossible events can or cannot occur in a realistic story. Thus, secular children, who had no exposure to such an education, systematically concluded that the protagonist in fantastical stories is pretend and justified that decision by reference to the impossibility of the story events. By contrast, children who had been exposed to religion via church or parochial schooling did not systematically conclude that the protagonist was pretend, and made fewer appeals to the impossibility of the story events.
http://www.bu.edu/learninglab/files/2012/05/Corriveau-Chen-Harris-in-press.pdf
Study: Religious children are less able to distinguish fantasy from reality - BBC News
According to the 3 Boston University School of Education researchers (Corriveau, Chen, Harris):
The results suggest that exposure to religious ideas has a powerful impact on children’s differentiation between reality and fiction, not just for religious stories but also for fantastical stories.
The stable difference between secular and religious children across all four story types lends support to the more radical hypothesis. The presence versus absence of a religious education is associated with children’s conviction that ordinarily impossible events can or cannot occur in a realistic story. Thus, secular children, who had no exposure to such an education, systematically concluded that the protagonist in fantastical stories is pretend and justified that decision by reference to the impossibility of the story events. By contrast, children who had been exposed to religion via church or parochial schooling did not systematically conclude that the protagonist was pretend, and made fewer appeals to the impossibility of the story events.
http://www.bu.edu/learninglab/files/2012/05/Corriveau-Chen-Harris-in-press.pdf
Study: Religious children are less able to distinguish fantasy from reality - BBC News
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