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One thing I find interesting is that many secular parents fail to pass on their worldview to their children. My uncle, a nuclear physicist, fled his childhood home in southern Mississippi to California. He is an atheist, but his three children grew up to be very religious. A friend of mine, a very liberal theist, has a teenager going to a local Baptist school, which is teaching them creationism. The child is sure the mother is going to hell, but the mother feels the child will outgrow this belief system. That's naive, in my view. I suspect that the sum total that the parent offers the child is ridicule of religion, rather than teaching them *why* the whole mechanism of belief and faith is wrong from its very core. So the child has no intellectual tools to defend him/herself when encountering groups pushing religious dogma. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Memphis Freethought Alliance" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/memphisfreethoughtalliance?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
