God I feel for you, fool.

I figured out one thing that really bugs me.
Parents shaping their childrens minds on opinionated subjects before they're old enough to understand them. This thought popped into my head today when I was at my friend's house.
I was in the basement with her little sister in her room and we were playing with toys! We were looking at the stuff in her closet and we came across this egg carton. She said "Oh! It's my eggs!" (She's 4 years old, so she said it in a funny voice.) so I took them off the shelf and we looked at them. "I got these at church!" She said. She pulled them out one by one, these small plastic colored eggs, opening them up and telling me about what was inside. She opened up a pink one, inside was a carved nail. "This," she explained "Is what they put Jesus on the cross with." She pretended to stab it into her hand. She opened up a blue one and took out a little cross. "He was on a cross like this one." She took out another one, that had a little tiny crown made of sticks in it. She started to tell me a story about how they made Jesus wear it, and it hurt him or something.
She would tell me all about the little things in the eggs, and she didn't even realize what she was doing. From the time she was a baby she's been forced to go to church and learn all these things without even realizing that this would forever be a part of her life. She'd continue to attend church, she'd do her community service in the nursery, become confirmed, and she'd be something that she never agreed to.
I love her family, and they're all great people, but that breaks my heart. I don't know how anyone could do that to a kid. I just... blah. I don't know. It makes me sad.