Re: Richard Dawkins says children need to be ‘protected’ from religion.
 

If you're going to hate the contents of the Bible that much, you might try reading what it actually says first.

Re: Richard Dawkins says children need to be ‘protected’ from religion.
 

No, the man who met my mum when she was drunk.

Re: Richard Dawkins says children need to be ‘protected’ from religion.
 

Sorry. Must've misread the accounts of genocide and mass-murder of innocents perpetrated by God.

My bad.

Re: Richard Dawkins says children need to be ‘protected’ from religion.
 

When someone gives a homeless man 10p in the street.
somebody wil say that God sent that man to give him that 10p.
they will say to either the homeless man. or the donator that God is holding out his hand to them.
(ironically a few days earler God took that homeless mans family away from him in a tragic and painful way)

but when Hitler or any other murderer kills many many people. they say that this was not Gods doing. he didn't make them do it. he didn't stop them either.

they think he didn't. they hope he didn't. but I know he did.

I know that if God can do all the good. then he's obviously doing a lot of the bad.

Re: Richard Dawkins says children need to be ‘protected’ from religion.
 

Fair play to Richard Dawkins, but they should not be protected from knowing about all religious beliefs. When they are of a certain age they should be allowed to decide for themselves.

Re: Richard Dawkins says children need to be ‘protected’ from religion.
 

That's what happens right now, certainly within my own experience. I really have no idea where this idea comes from, that bringing up a child in a certain religion is akin to brainwashing them and rendering them incapable of functioning in society as adults. Having been brought up in a churchgoing household, I walked away from it as soon as I was old enough to refuse to get out of bed on a Sunday morning. I then thought things through and, a few years later, made my own commitment, freely, of my own choice. Since then I have seen countless young people do likewise. In one family I am acquainted with, one son is considering training for ministry while the other is a committed atheist. Both were brought up in a Christian home.

Dawkins seems to think that all families who bring their children up in their faith can be equated with Waco-style cult houses and his remedy is to use the power of the state to force families to bring up their children like Dawkins. Which is actually a horrible thought.

Re: Richard Dawkins says children need to be ‘protected’ from religion.
 

I don't tend to get involved in these threads but by and large I believe that there's nothing wrong with religion per se, the problem comes with those who seek to manipulate or 'interpret' it to their own negative ends.

Re: Richard Dawkins says children need to be ‘protected’ from religion.
 

He did specifically reference 'religious indoctrination'.

No-one would, I hope, advocate banning study of religion in schools, it's a vital part of a rounded education.

Re: Richard Dawkins says children need to be ‘protected’ from religion.
 

rounded ? warped more like

Re: Richard Dawkins says children need to be ‘protected’ from religion.
 

You may not like it but it's part of our history and society. For many people, for better or worse, it is part of their lives and for some shapes it, so should be studied.

Re: Richard Dawkins says children need to be ‘protected’ from religion.
 

I would contrast "Religious education" compared to "Education about religion"

The second is much preferable.

Re: Richard Dawkins says children need to be ‘protected’ from religion.
 

There go I but for the grace of god.

Re: Richard Dawkins says children need to be ‘protected’ from religion.
 

the problem is people do study it then they go and commit murder in its name,and that's been going on since god was invented .

Re: Richard Dawkins says children need to be ‘protected’ from religion.
 

Yeah I've lost count of how many people I've off'd.

Re: Richard Dawkins says children need to be ‘protected’ from religion.
 

42 including the one you told me about last week.