What are they teaching my nephew?!
I was talking to my 11-year-old nephew the other day about what he wanted to be when he grew up. He told me he wanted to join the military. I am a curious person and I ask why a lot. So, I asked him why he wished to join the military. He told me he wanted to go to Iraq. Again I asked why. What he said next not only surprised me but gave me a fright. He said, “I want to kill Iraqis”.
I was set back by what he said and promptly asked him why would he want to do that. Again, what he said scared me. “They are different then us”. I kept thinking to myself what the hell is my sister and her boyfriend teaching him. I told him that first the military is to defend our nation and our citizen. Not to attack or kill unprovoked. He repeated “but they are different then us”. I sighed and told him that just because someone is different or a nation is different that it does not mean we have the right or the authority to attack/kill. I then stated that to everyone else we are different.
I then told him that there are some nations in this world that there are children soldiers. That these kids fight and kill to defend their family, their homes and their very own lives. He only said “Cooooooool”. I just sighed and dropped it knowing he won’t understand. During this whole conversation he kept repeating old false propaganda. The whole they started they war, Al Qaeda, weapons of mass destruction. Each time I refuted what he said he just shrugged.
My nephew identifies himself as a Christian the same as his mother and her boyfriend. Indoctrination has this boy’s head full of its ok to kill others because they are different or because there is a moral right to it. I have no clue what they are teaching my nephew but I really hope that when he get’s older that he will let logic, reason, rationality weigh more then some false promises by religious brainwashing.
