But I love it!! My parents get so mad that she isn’t in sunday school, and so I told them that I plan to teach her about all the bible stories. Since they have a big presence in our culture I would like her to know about them at least. But to my fundy xtian parents, I told them that, “Don’t worry, I plan on teaching her ALL the fairy tales, not just the ones in the bible.” I thought it was funny, them-not so much. Oh well.

They ARE fairy tales, so…I am right!

where they learned bible stories and went to chapel.

I think there are many advantages to growing up with a knowledge of Biblical stories and the moral lessons of the Bible.

For example:
When I was a little boy, I had a fight with one of my friends while playing over at his house. His parents took his side and demanded that I apologize and ask his forgiveness for my sinning because that’s what God commands in the Good Book. I asked them if I could see this book.

After studying a bit, I straightaway took hold of his parakeet and made amends pursuant to the method laid out by God in Leviticus 5:8-10. To my dismay, he only had the one bird when the instructions called for 2. I made do, but evidently it wasn’t enough. I never saw him again.
I never forgot the important lesson of always having extra supplies on hand.

I find the claim that we’re brainwashing our children if we don’t teach them their (and why is the their always Christian) religion absurd. As stated above, I didn’t send my daughter to a Klan meeting to give her the other side of the story, why would I send her to church?

My daughter was unchurched and somehow managed to avoid becoming a juvenile delinquent or a teen mom. Gee? Could it be because I taught her to use her brain?

So far, my 5-year-old grandson is unchurched. May he stay that way. I’m not worried about his being brainwashed. He’s smart as a whip and a stubborn, rebellious cuss like his Grammy but, hell, why subject him to vile nonsense? And I remember church when I was a kid. Pretty much amounts to child abuse. Terrify kids with Grand Theft Auto and they yell for censorship; terrify kids with hellfire and brimstone, and they call it religion.

Whenever I hear Atheists say this I always wonder are you that terrified of the religious majority?

My only issue with what the author is doing is that it appears that she is only exposing her kids to one idea about religion. Since she is not talking about her own views and not taking her child to various religious places of worship, I would be concerned that her children will except the brand of Christianity they are exposed to as the default base of religious ideas to which all other ideas would be compared. I suppose my own kids will have “no religion” as their default and compare other religious ideas against that, which to me is preferable.

How quaint, open-minded, and so liberal of me, no?

Give me a break.

I’ll take my child to get his shots so that he’ll be immune to diseases and viruses that kill and maim other children with horrible sicknesses who do not get their needed inoculations; So too, critical thinking may be all you ever need to expose your children to in order to inoculate them from harmful mental diseases and mind-viruses; to wit: infectious and pernicious supernaturalisms of all varieties and forms.

However, unlike inoculations via the syringe against disease, the inoculations administered in the service of mental health and of mental hygiene can be administered as often and as heavy in dosage as one wishes.

I’ll kindly spare my child KKK rallies, the Adhan, the Amidah, Scientology “Auditing”, the handling of snakes, the clanging of church bells overhead, etc. until they are strong mentally enough to discern truth and falsity: for my children, matchbox cars will come before I hand the keys of my Toyota, thank you. I don’t need to facilitate indoctrination; they’ll be barraged with enough nonsense throughout their lives… loving, freethinking parents need not do the job of demagogues, sophists, and liars in the absence of them.