: About Me

Reda Yahoum.
Pen name: Atticus Langston.
Future Anthropologist and Social Entrepreneur.
Agnostic. Dreamer
Teddy Roosevelt Republican.
Independent Minded.

My passion is ...

social change.

I know too much about ...

politics

My parents always told me ...

that I can breakdown any barrier that gets in my way.

My childhood ambition ...

was to become an airline pilot.

My favorite memory ...

is of the casablanca family vacation I took with my mother and father as a young boy.

Why I write ...

I write to clear my mind.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

The Big Sea by Langston Hughes

My first job ...

AMC film crew

My best moment ...

Winning national showchoir championship in New York City in 2004.

My inspiration ...

my mother and father.

Religion & Spirituality > Atheism & Agnosticism Protecting the children from religion

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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, I have a big problem with people calling one child a "Christian child" or a "Muslim child" or a child of any particular faith. All kids are children of God, whatever that God may be or whether or not he actually exists. Instead of raising our children within a religion, we should be teaching them how to think for themselves. We should be teaching them about good works and being n...

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