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American Atheist Editor: Christian Daycare is ‘Child Abuse’
Newsbusters ^ | 06/30/10 | Nathan Burchfiel

Posted on 06/30/2010 8:24:37 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

"He's got the whole world in his hands?" To one atheist, it's more like ‘He's got the whole world under his thumb."

David Smalley, the editor of American Atheist magazine and a self-described "civil rights activist," wrote in a personal blog post June 7 that Christian daycare "a form of child abuse."

"In short, by starting your child off in a Christian environment, you are heading them down a path of forced ignorance," Smalley wrote. "At least let your child begin in a secular world, and if he or she chooses Christianity after an age of accountability, then so be it. But forcing them to learn things as fact that you don't even know to be true is a form of child abuse: inducing psychosis with thoughts of good and evil watching over them, as if they are constantly being graded or evaluated."

Smalley further stereotyped and generalized religion-based childcare by suggesting "it's bad for positive self-esteem, and slows social development later in life."

American Atheist magazine is published by American Atheists, which calls itself "the premiere organization laboring for the civil liberties of Atheists, and the total, absolute separation of government and religion."

Smalley's post appeared on his blog, Dogma Debate. He also hosts an Internet radio show of the same name.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2hateful; atheism; bigot; christianity; daycare; farleft; hatefilledlefty; newsbusters; sickman; sickpuppy
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

He is in for a very big surprise


21 posted on 06/30/2010 10:55:06 PM PDT by SaintDismas
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To: DJ MacWoW

“”At least let your child begin in a secular world, and if he or she chooses Christianity after an age of accountability, then so be it.”

Or, at least let your child begin in a Christian world, and if he or she chooses atheism after an age of accountability, then so be it.


22 posted on 06/30/2010 11:17:16 PM PDT by Persevero (Christian American Patriot)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Is David any relation to Stuart?


23 posted on 06/30/2010 11:27:51 PM PDT by pankot
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To: proudofthesouth
Your post is a great encouragement to me.

Most of my loved ones are stone-hearted atheists, and you remind me to continue praying for them despite the apparent hopelessness of the task.

24 posted on 06/30/2010 11:39:27 PM PDT by oprahstheantichrist (The MSM is a demonic stronghold, PLEASE pray accordingly - 2 Corinthians 10:3-5)
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To: Clinging Bitterly

Well, this ‘testimony’ is pretty much what a respectful atheist, or respectful non-Christian would confess in a candid moment: Christianity works at an empirical social level as evaluated quite apart from any theological tenets.

But as C. S. Lewis put it, either there is “pie in the sky” or there isn’t, and the question is quite independent of whether it is useful for political purposes.


25 posted on 07/01/2010 12:56:27 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: DJ MacWoW

How will they know what an age of accountability is if they never know right from wrong?


26 posted on 07/01/2010 12:59:25 AM PDT by Pan_Yans Wife (Utopia is being foisted on Americans for their own good.-- J. Robert Smith)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife

And who wants to be subject at any age to a system of “good and evil” that was merely invented by a bunch of monkeys? (If there’s no God)


27 posted on 07/01/2010 1:03:12 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: backwoods-engineer

> You will get smacked down by the Supreme Court so fast your
> head will spin.

I wouldn’t count on that after the Kenyan Kommunist stacks the court.


28 posted on 07/01/2010 3:18:29 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
"...forcing them to learn things as fact that you don't even know to be true is a form of child abuse"

(...cough...)

"Smalley further stereotyped and generalized religion-based childcare by suggesting "it's bad for positive self-esteem, and slows social development later in life.""

Yep,we can see the truth in that by the mere fact that in the last few decades,as christianity has been relentlesly attacked and ridiculed,the youth in western culture have grown stronger in character and become so much more well adjusted than any of those religious fruitcakes of the past ever were.

Mr Smalley,your crap simply doesn't line up with reality.

29 posted on 07/01/2010 3:37:22 AM PDT by mitch5501 (top of the world ma!)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
"...forcing them to learn things as fact that you don't even know to be true is a form of child abuse"

(...cough...)

"Smalley further stereotyped and generalized religion-based childcare by suggesting "it's bad for positive self-esteem, and slows social development later in life.""

Yep,we can see the truth in that by the mere fact that in the last few decades,as christianity has been relentlesly attacked and ridiculed,the youth in western culture have grown stronger in character and become so much more well adjusted than any of those religious fruitcakes of the past ever were.

Mr Smalley,your crap simply doesn't line up with reality.

30 posted on 07/01/2010 3:40:43 AM PDT by mitch5501 (top of the world ma!)
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To: SaintDismas

You know, there are no atheists in hell.

By the time they get THERE, they KNOW there is a God.


31 posted on 07/01/2010 3:58:05 AM PDT by fredhead (Liberals think globally, reason rectally, act idiotically.)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

“by starting your child off in a Christian environment, you are heading them down a path of forced ignorance,” Smalley wrote.”

Wrong! “Train up a child in the way he should go:
and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”


32 posted on 07/01/2010 5:08:17 AM PDT by RoadTest (Religion is a substitute for the relationship God wants with you.)
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To: RoadTest

(Proverbs 22:6)


33 posted on 07/01/2010 5:10:25 AM PDT by RoadTest (Religion is a substitute for the relationship God wants with you.)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Funny that. How 'bout dem kids that had the "fortune" to be born into one of those "famous" atheist societies - North Korea, the Soviet Union, China, ....


34 posted on 07/01/2010 5:11:49 AM PDT by Oceander (The Price of Freedom is Eternal Vigilance -- Thos. Jefferson)
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle

Exactly what does he think children should be taught about morality? That Stalin, Hitler, Manson, Obama, and Pol Pot are neither good nor evil, just people with views on ethics that may differ from their own? That good and evil are obsolete concepts that should be ignored? That adultery, theft, and murder, and pride, envy, and avarice are old fashioned concepts with no moral significance? No thank you. My children will learn that God created the heavens and the earth, that Jesus died for our sins (but that sin still exists as it is described in God’s Word), and that we have to make moral choices every day on whether to follow good or evil. If he has a problem with that, he can try to use force to impose his will ... on those who cling not just to God but also to guns.


35 posted on 07/01/2010 7:08:10 AM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: fullchroma
This agnostic is sick and tired of the likes of little you and your scurrilous screwing with the Christian culture upon which this amazing country was founded. The world is a better place thanks to Judeo-Christianity but I suppose you’re just to hip to recognize that. Or, more likely, you’re not very well-read in history.

I agree. I'm an atheist, but I am still glad I had a strong Baptist upbringing for two reasons: 1) it definitely instilled a sense of right and wrong in me, and 2) if you don't know Biblical history, you don't know Western Civilization.

Those two things more or less made up for the nightmares I used to have about people being crucified and stuff. LOL...

36 posted on 07/01/2010 8:46:49 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (I can see November from my house.)
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To: Pollster1

His time would be better spent worrying about what kids are being taught in madrasas right here in the US.


37 posted on 07/01/2010 8:54:44 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (I can see November from my house.)
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