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Originally Posted by Chris

Again, Dawkins' argument (and yours) is merely self-serving. He argues that other families should bring up their kids like Dawkins. Obviously Dawkins wants to commend his own parenting techniques; he chose them. The big no-no, however, is the implication that people who don't emulate Dawkins are behaving in a way that is dangerous to their children's development.

Do you not believe ideologies can be dangerous? Especially ideologies that are imprinted through manipulation?

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Originally Posted by martyh

It all depends on up bringing,if a child is raised in a Catholic family then the chances are they would be Catholic in religion the same goes for any other religious upbringing ,Islam Jewish etc .It is not normally the case that parents line up religions and instruct children to choose one.It is more normal for children to be raised in a religious surrounding and reject religion upon reaching maturity ,which incidentally was the case with Dawkins .He was Christian until his teens and then rejected religion so quite why he would want to deny the choice to others is beyond me

Exactly. Thank you.