///M said:
Atheists tend not to do that, we leave that for the religious folk.
That's such bullshit. Not only are there atheists on the warpath against religion, but I've seen many posts on this vary forum to the effect that religion should be abolished.
there is nothing wrong with teaching your kids about your religion, or your nonreligion. Parents will always pass thier beliefs onto thier children, it's always been this way. Children eventually grow up and make up thier own minds, but to say that kids should be just taught the basics and left to figure things out, well that's pretty stupid I think.
I was rasied in a christian family and went to church untill I graduated high school. I have been able to make up my own mind since then and I don't feel I was brainwashed or any bullshit like that. My parents simply taught me what they believe and when I got old enough to form my own opinions form them I did, and now I don't go any longer.
Telling children there is no god is exactly like telling them there is one. It's two sides of the same coin, you're "brainwashing" your kids either way.
And where the fuck did this whole, "violent ugly brutal, blah blah blah religion" shit come from? I don't think having children attend sunday school and draw pictures of Noah and all the animals is exactly going to ruin them. Have some of you even been these churches you speak against? Of course there are bad churches, but that that goes for atheist groups as well. It's the same thing.
Either way you're fighting for mindspace with the same goal, to spread your ideas farther into the human mindscape, teaching religion and teaching no religion are no different.