Posted on 04/22/2013 4:38:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Professor Richard Dawkins has claimed that forcing a religion on children without questioning its merits is as bad as 'child abuse'.
In typically incendiary style, the leading atheist said he was against the 'indoctrination of religion' and teaching it as fact.
The evolutionary scientist and Emeritus Fellow at Oxford University, speaking at the Chipping Norton Literary Festival yesterday, was repeating claims he made last year which were roundly condemned by charities and politicians.
Professor Dawkins said at the festival that children should be taught religion but scorn should be poured on its claims.
'What a child should be taught is that religion exists; that some people believe this and some people believe that,' the Daily Telegraph reported he had said.
'What a child should never be taught is that you are a Catholic or Muslim child, therefore that is what you believe. That's child abuse.'
He added that teaching children religion would help them understand literature.
Professor Dawkins, a biologist who revolutionised the theory of evolution with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, added that he thought it was still important to teach children about different faiths.
Religion critic: Prof Dawkins' bestseller The God Delusion
'There is a value in teaching children about religion. You cannot really appreciate a lot of literature without knowing about religion. But we must not indoctrinate our children,' he said.
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Dear Prof Dawkins,
Mind your own effing business.
BoT
maybe his non-god will take him to collect his reward soon (72 virgins?)
The basis of right and wrong is religion.
No matter what this a-hole says, religion is what is the basis for Civilised society.
All laws that count are written with a basis from the Bible.
Without religion there is no right or wrong,only what a-holes like this preach.
Parents can’t help but teach their children. Even not teaching something is teaching something.
So teaching is inescapable.
The next question is, if parents are not the primary educators of their children, who is? There is no rational alternative.
And raising your children in the religion of atheism ammounts to ETERNAL abuse....
If it’s Islam, I’d have to agree.
He is no man of consequence.
He has written nothing of consequence.
I f*rt in his general direction.
Wouldn’t you just like to bust that grinning gargoyle?
The most annoying thing about atheists is their gawd awful arrogance. Shows, doesn’t it?
So teaching a child not to crap in his pants is now child abuse. Using his logic, we’d all end up like him. What a tenured fool.
So why does demand we all follow his beliefs of Atheism?
Ironic. He claims to find his own way, yet, he is a conformist by wearing that jacket and tie.
Sunday as a non work day (or saturday) is there for religious reasons.
Why do atheists take sunday off? if they were serious they would work seven days a week.
Lemme get this straight, perfesser, you just said that we must not indoctrinate children, right? Isn't exactly *THAT* part and parcel of what you're being paid by certain other parties to do? Indoctrinate other people's children into *your* chosen faith?
Maybe we should begin by examining the relative merits of the faith of secular humanism. No? Out of bounds to you? There's a word for that sirrah, the word is 'hypocrisy'...
the infowarrior
He does indeed name Islam (along with some other religions). Read the article.
That’s him? Who is the guy in a wheelchair who speaks the same rant as this one? I thought his name was Dawkins.
And some of the arrogant ones can be petulant little tyrants. Good display was last Wednesday evening. Lucky for me I didn’t see the king tossing his 3yr olds tantrum.
I will teach my children about God and His Word.
Not "that some people believe this and some people believe that" but that "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth" through "For God so loved the world . . ." and the rest of scripture along with what it means.
I would not permit a child to form independent judgements on how a firearm should be handled safely, and these are far bigger and more important questions. It is my responsibility as a parent to raise my child, to provide guidance and where possible the truth, and almost as important to protect my children from people like Dawkins and those who believe in his moral relativism. It does not take a village to raise a child, it takes a parent's love and commitment to raise an adult who will not depend on the village for lifetime support but who will follow God's Word and do good rather than evil.
perhaps you mean Hawking?
Similar sounding names.
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