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**Chris** · 28-02-2015, 10:18

Clearly, for the author of that piece, it's intensely personal. It's sad that they have apparently suffered some form of abuse, and it's disappointing that their response is to project their own experience into the lives of people they don't know, and have never met - especially as the implications of their argument would be an extremely authoritarian shift in the balance of responsibility in the family, from parents to the State.

Anybody who thinks that State interference in the family is a good idea, just because at this precise moment their own ideology is aligned with that of the State, is being very naive and short-sighted.

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Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,148	Re: Richard Dawkins says children need to be ‘protected’ from religion. Clearly, for the author of that piece, it's intensely personal. It's sad that they have apparently suffered some form of abuse, and it's disappointing that their response is to project their own experience into the lives of people they don't know, and have never met - especially as the implications of their argument would be an extremely authoritarian shift in the balance of responsibility in the family, from parents to the State. Anybody who thinks that State interference in the family is a good idea, just because at this precise moment their own ideology is aligned with that of the State, is being very naive and short-sighted.