Protecting the children from religion 28 Articles

by Art Willock

Most civilized adults, particularly parents, educators and activists would be quick to assert their commitment to the protection and welfare of children. We all want them to have a good start in life and to be spared the r...read more

by Atticus Langston

As a person of faith here is where I stand on this issue. While I believe that we have to instill good and moral values within our children, we should never force religion down their throats. Like Richard Dawkins,...read more

by Robert Aske

Saving the children from religion. I do not wish for you to agree on everything i say but to read it open-mindedly. If you ask a human being, old enough to talk, 'what faith do you practice?' The chances are they w...read more

by Richard Collins

Part I Children can and must be saved from religious fear mongering, wish mongering, and psychological manipulation. As Richard Dawkins relates in his seminal book, "The God Delusion", evolutionary forces predispose sma...read more

by Currie Jean

Babies are born atheists. The only theistic difference between a baby atheist and an adult atheist is that the adult knows religion exists. Babies have blank slates, and when one is born, two questions are immediately cons...read more

by Lisa Holloway

It seems to me that when people suggest children need to be saved from religion or claim that religious people "brainwash" their children, the speakers deliberately ignore the fact that children are constantly being indoct...read more

by Olafemi

Our children must be saved from all that is evil and wicked. Is this a page in what is known as religion? Can we truly say that religion gives children a better outlook on life? Can religion keep the eyes of children in...read more

by Kristie Barry

I am non-religious, and even though I don't preach to others, I feel like this is the perfect place to voice my views. I have a 4 year old step-daughter, and I'm very much against her being baptised. I feel like everyone...read more

by Jamie Whitten

I come from a very mixed background when it comes to my spirituality. Because of that, I am often addressed regarding the fact that I have clung to my basic Christian beliefs regardless of what circle I am in. When I am ...read more

by Pope

What the...? Why do we need to protect children from religion?! My God, I swear that you people that start these threads are getting stupider and stupider. That's like saying, "How do we find ways to take choice away from ...read more

by Hannah Mitchell

In America we have a country that not only tells other nations that In God We Trust, but then has two of it's major holidays based on the Christian faith. Have we not forgotten the constitutional rights of every American ...read more

by Sagebomb

Protecting children from religion is like protecting children from bacteria. In the short term children may be safe but eventually there weakened state from not being in contact with these parasites will lead to their down...read more

by Kristy Willis

Trying to protect a child from religion is like trying to keep a fish alive outside of water- impossible. Each and every individual is born into an environment that, from the earliest moments, begins to shape their attitud...read more

by Beth Roberts

I believe the title of these articles are too misleading. I don't think that children need saving from religion as I am a child and I am perfectly happy with what I believe in. Adults say how children don't know what t...read more

by Thomas Donaldsen

Within any given society, people see the outside world as the opposition and are unable or unwilling to recognize that their own convictions have become the evil that they claim to be against. This sounds too broad as a pr...read more

by Joe Palvado

Protecting one's children from religion is like protecting them from education or from eating. Religion is an essential need. Unfortunately, parents do as poor a job conveying religion as they do the other essentials. Chi...read more

by Neil Woodard

Pure and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this; to visit the orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted form the world. This passage is quoted from the Bible, specifically from the b...read more

by Robert Hawe

Knowledge is the key. As with anything in the world: the more we know, the better the judgments we make. When in primary school, I remember being taught about religion, but I don't remember ever being taught that there ...read more

by Yunfei Han

Saving the children of this world from religion is very important. People and most adults don't really realise how important it is because they have lived with some form of religion for most of their life and certainly thr...read more

by Dan Bergman

This is a serious issue. As children experience life, they seem to be natural scientists. Kids want to know how things work. They question everything. An endless amount of "Why?"s is on I hear often. But when they do so ab...read more