Shouldn't this be BS section...?

What kind of alternately amused and angered me was an evangelical woman dragging her kids around with her, who chose to stop outside our place and give them a major telling-off before knocking on our door. Amusing from the point of view of hypocrisy, angry from the point of view of inflicting that on kids (who clearly don't want to be there).

I don't have a problem with evangelicals doorstepping - if they want to do that, then fine. And if the kids want to participate, then again fine - I know that me and my sister went round stuffing Christian Aid envelopes through doors with my mum when I was a kid, and we thought it was good fun. But forcing them to come along when they don't want to - no way.

One point though Alan - you don't *know* that the kid was bring "brainwashed". As Wolfgang says, there's nothing wrong with taking kids to church or whatever when they're young, so long as you give them total freedom to choose their own path when they're old enough to make a decision. I know a lot of the more "fervent" churches *do* lean harder on kids, but it's not a guaranteed thing - depends on the individual church and the individual parents.

Graham.