Children Are Not Inheritors of Faith
Your Child Is Not Your Follower is a bold and uncompromising exploration of the invisible violence embedded in inherited faith. Challenging the global norm of religious indoctrination in childhood, this book asks a fundamental question: Who truly owns a child's mind-the parents, the state, or the child themselves?
From child soldiers in conflict zones to Sunday schools in suburban America, from Qur'anic memorization camps to Buddhist novice training, the author weaves together real-world cases, legal perspectives, and cultural analyses to expose how faith traditions pass themselves down not through reason, but through control.
Rejecting the claim that religion equals culture or identity, this work calls for a new paradigm in education-one that teaches all religions *neutrally* while reserving belief for adulthood, when true choice becomes possible. Through chapters on psychology, philosophy, law, and history, the book proposes a global rethinking of how children are raised, and how freedom of thought must begin before freedom of religion.
With clarity and courage, Your Child Is Not Your Follower advocates for a secular, rational, and human-centered future-where children are not passive vessels of tradition, but the architects of their own convictions.