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Thread #131699   Message #2995872
Posted By: Steve Shaw
29-Sep-10 - 05:45 AM
Thread Name: BS: The God Delusion 2010
Subject: RE: BS: The God Delusion 2010
I challenged you to show how your child received a balanced and fair view of religion in order for them to make a free and informed choice about how they should go on to live their lives, i.e. to embrace religion or fearlessly reject it. Note, informed. That would involve one giving correctives to any unconscious one-sided view one admits to passing on to them and checking and balancing what they were getting in religious "education" in their schools. It happens to be my model for the only right way for parents, religious or not, to deal with their children apropos of religion. Giving children one view of religion (and perhaps doing all the churchy stuff like christenings, weddings, carol-singing etc.) then telling them they're free to reject it is not the same thing at all - but it's a cop-out claimed by an awful lot of people. I actually think (as an atheist) that there isn't anywhere near enough religious education. But then I'm using the word "education" in its strict sense.