I’m sorry, @Nullo. I know you mean well. I know you have the best intentions for the children involved, and that the disturbing things you say don’t come from any sort of bad will.
Still I contend that if you believe this sort of cultural kidnapping would be justified, you urgently need to face the fact that you really don’t have enough information to be as certain as you are that you are right and the others are wrong. To have as little proof as you do, and still be as certain as you are, and act on it, is a very, very big mistake.
The religions live in data poverty. What you cannot afford is taking it for granted that what you believe is definitely true, on pain of being wrong and never finding out. And given the present context, being wrong about the importance and justification of converting other people’s children will have nasty consequences.
You might be committing some severe, dare I say criminal injustice against these poor impressionable minds in the most important and vulnerable stage of their development. In the best case, you would be forcing a belief system on them that they can’t consider on its merits yet, that they’ll take your word for because they still think grown-ups are never wrong.
In a worse case, with your life boat philosophy, you could end up convincing a kid with OCD that she’ll burn in agonising hellfire for all eternity unless she carefully keeps herself from “sinning”, ruining years of her life.
And the worst part is that it could all be for nothing, if you’re wrong and there is no hell.
As for my personal convictions when it comes to indoctrinating children, I think it should be reduced to a minimum, only the values that are widely agreed upon by the entire society – values such as freedom and justice and kindness and honesty. But anything more contested or contestable than that – such as very much religion – they should not have to bother with until they’re old enough to make up their own minds.
Urging children to convert to your church before they can defend themselves against rhetorical tricks, I think that’s a form of child abuse.
Even if it doesn’t involve such perverse and terrifying ideas as an eternity of excruciating punishment just for not accepting Jesus as your personal saviour, as a result of being born into the wrong religion or not being lucky enough to pick the right one out of hundreds of equally plausible alternatives.
Doing so against the will of their parents, I consider a good reason to call the police.