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**Chris** · 25-02-2015, 11:47

A lot of this discussion really depends on what the Dork meant by "indoctrination". I see several posters assuming the discussion to be about the teaching of religious ideas within science lessons in schools. However, Dawkins clearly touched on parents, and therefore the private relationships that exist within a family home.

It is not the State's job to legislate for private belief and it is conceited nonsense to claim that it is even possible to bring up a child in a moral vacuum. Children learn from their parents, by what their parents do and say to one another and to other people outside the home, as much as (if not more than) they do by what the parents say directly to their children. If a child is brought up in an evangelical Christian home, then that will be the child's outlook, at least until that child is old enough as a teenager to begin to resist it or embrace it for themselves.

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Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,146	Re: Richard Dawkins says children need to be ‘protected’ from religion. A lot of this discussion really depends on what the Dork meant by "indoctrination". I see several posters assuming the discussion to be about the teaching of religious ideas within science lessons in schools. However, Dawkins clearly touched on parents, and therefore the private relationships that exist within a family home. It is not the State's job to legislate for private belief and it is conceited nonsense to claim that it is even possible to bring up a child in a moral vacuum. Children learn from their parents, by what their parents do and say to one another and to other people outside the home, as much as (if not more than) they do by what the parents say directly to their children. If a child is brought up in an evangelical Christian home, then that will be the child's outlook, at least until that child is old enough as a teenager to begin to resist it or embrace it for themselves.