Kids of atheists flunk obedience school
A new study is out and purports that religion is good for children because, amongst other things, it tends to make them bark on command. On the other hand, it was discovered that children raised without the threat of eternal damnation for failing to bark on command tended to have perfected their eye [...]
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Raising Kids without Religion
As a parent from a fundamentalist background where everything came to be centered around and explained by God, I am really looking forward to the release of Parenting Beyond Belief. It’s the first of it’s kind to specifically address us godfree parents and is a collection of essays from a variety [...]
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Won’t do that again
Know what happens when you install a Microsoft beta under “what could happen” thinking? I’ll tell you. Your computer won’t reboot properly after a crash, forcing you to reinstall the OS just to find out you can’t activate it and the support folks don’t know what the f’ went wrong. So, you [...]
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Reproductive Choices and God’s Plan
An article in this morning paper about sex selection brought up the specter of “playing God” when it comes to reproductive choices:
We’e not messing around with God the creator.
Well, actually we do mess around with God and The Plan every single day of our lives. We wear seatbelts, helmets, gloves, eyewear and a mess [...]
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Teaching Kids about Christianity
In a fit of open-mindedness, it is easy to suggest that we should allow our children to believe what they will with only a minimum of guidance from us. Our children should be allowed to attended religious services and not be subjected to hearing us say religion is mere superstition until they’re ‘old enough [...]
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