Ah, another fine example of tolerance and goodwill:

Religion denies music to children? - why not "Some Muslims Deny Music to Kids"???? Why not? - because it doesn't serve the OP's bigotry.

Then let's look at some other comments:

most religions seem equally dishonest, arrogant and frankly offensive to one or another degree

Some idiot Jesuit

Raving religious cranks, all of them - pity the children.

This religion IS denying that music to those children - well, yes, maybe ten percent of the people in that religious denomination have reservations about some aspect of music - maybe they just think that Englebert Humperdinck recordings are mind-numbing, but they have expressed reservations about music, in one way or another.

Religion is really not good for children, of which this is just another example.

Notice the sweeping nature of most of the above statements. I suppose there's truth in all the statements - but the truth applies to a relatively small percentage of religious people. It's like condemning the human race because ten percent of humans are idiots.

I suppose it's not fair to say that "Mudcatters" are bigoted against religion. It's just that when the subject of religion comes up, the voices of bigotry always seem to be the loudest. It's a funny thing, though - just when religious people are starting to learn to be polite about non-religious people, the non-religious people turn the tables and jump on the bigotry bandwagon.

What would be wrong with expecting that both religious and non-religious people practice tolerance?

-Joe-