Some types of Christianity involve no indoctrination, no terrorizing with hell, none of the things that you think are essential to Christianity. I was raised in this tradition. Belief is not coerced, it is always a matter of choice. You are also not induced by reward either. It is difficult for you to imagine a child could be introduced to Jesus’s words without any threat or promise of reward and a person would believe for life because your tradition requires fear for people to believe. Given your preferences, you would reject this type of Christianity but one can certainly transmit it as a religious faith.
"When there is so much to be known, when there are so many fields of knowledge in which the same words are used with different meanings, when everyone knows a little about a great many things, it becomes increasingly difficult for anyone to know whether he knows what he is talking about our not. When we do not know, or when we do not known enough, we tend always to substitute emotions for thoughts." -- T.S. Eliot (1920)
Some types of Christianity involve no indoctrination, no terrorizing with hell, none of the things that you think are essential to Christianity. I was raised in this tradition. Belief is not coerced, it is always a matter of choice. You are also not induced by reward either. It is difficult for you to imagine a child could be introduced to Jesus’s words without any threat or promise of reward and a person would believe for life because your tradition requires fear for people to believe. Given your preferences, you would reject this type of Christianity but one can certainly transmit it as a religious faith.
"When there is so much to be known, when there are so many fields of knowledge in which the same words are used with different meanings, when everyone knows a little about a great many things, it becomes increasingly difficult for anyone to know whether he knows what he is talking about our not. When we do not know, or when we do not known enough, we tend always to substitute emotions for thoughts." -- T.S. Eliot (1920)