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scraps, it's a little off-topic, but I really don't think Buddhist children should be forced to go to Christian church or live in a household that believes their faith is abusive. It is not like taking a Presbyterian to a Methodist Sunday school. Taking them to Christian church and twice a week to lessons is religious assimilation and indoctrination, not benign religious education. Additionally, you are saying you think taking them to a temple would be child abuse--that is too disrespectful and shaming, I think, to be healthy for them. If presented with a child outside Christian tradition in the future, IMO you should decline. I'm sorry, practicalities or not, I think that what you are doing is harmful to the children.
As for faith healing, I don't believe in it, but I do understand that many American Christians do.
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