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Originally Posted by Chris
Indeed. Which is why the argument that parents should not bring up children to believe in a certain faith is so dangerous. Even without active instruction from the parents, children would absorb their religious beliefs and practices in exactly the same way as they absorb everything from favoured holiday destinations to the brands in the kitchen cupboard and support for a particular football team. Once we accept Dawkins' argument that children need to be "protected" from religion, we are immediately on the road to accepting massive State intervention in child rearing within the family home.
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We'll have to disagree on your final assertion. I don't think that we are immediately on the road to state intervention. Simply pointing out to parents of all religions that they may be wrong in one aspect of the way that they are bringing up their children doesn't immediately call for state intervention. (imo)
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Originally Posted by martyh
so quite why he would want to deny the choice to others is beyond me
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So that they don't have the struggle that he (and I) had?
Anyhoo. I'm off to cook a roast dinner now
