On Atheism Sunday School
I continue chronicling of atheists not only raising their own children as atheists but everyone else’s as well. Jeninne Lee-St. John wrote an article for TIME magazine entitled: Sunday School for Atheists
The article was a report on atheist parents who seek to ensure that their children are taught to believe exactly as they do. While this is typically what many parents wants it is refreshing that atheists are admitting that they indoctrinate their children as much as, if not more so, than theists-this is part of the reason for the rise of atheism in America.
Atheists are now coming out and admitting that they practice indoctrination of children just like those theistic parents whom atheists have long condemned as child abusers for doing the same thing.The practice of atheism’s indoctrination of children is, of course, nothing new. I know someone whose father used to tuck her into bed a night, when she was a little girl, telling her that there is no God. The difference now is that the indoctrination is becoming institutionalized in the form of summer camps, classes, various media (such as Philip Pullman’s works), etc.The article states:
some nonbelievers are beginning to think they might need something for their children. “When you have kids,” says Julie Willey, a design engineer, “you start to notice that your co-workers or friends have church groups to help teach their kids values and to be able to lean on.”
So every week, Willey, who was raised Buddhist and says she has never believed in God, and her husband pack their four kids into their blue minivan and head to…atheist Sunday school…the weekly instruction supports their position that it’s O.K. to not believe in God and gives them a place to reinforce the morals and values they want their children to have.
Note the qualifiers: reinforce what they want their children to have.
One Sunday this fall found a dozen children up to age 6 and several parents playing percussion instruments and singing empowering anthems like I’m Unique and Unrepeatable.
Here we have atheism hymns and doxologies.I may be reading too much into this but I thought that it was simply fascinating:
Down the hall in the kitchen, older kids engaged in a Socratic conversation with class leader [Peter] Bishop about the role persuasion plays in decision-making.
He tried to get them to see that people who are coerced into renouncing their beliefs might not actually change their minds but could be acting out of self-preservation-an important lesson for young atheists who may feel pressure to say they believe in God.
I do not know if it is a mere semantic accident but note that even while the class leader sought to warn them about the role of persuasion he “tried to get them to…”Ok kids, be thou persuaded to beware of persuasion! Lastly, consider a statement made by one of the parents,
“I’m a person that doesn’t believe in myths,” Hana says. “I’d rather stick to the evidence.”
What evidence? What is “the” evidence? Evidence of what? Evidence for what? I thought that atheism was merely a lack of God belief; what does evidence have to do with anything? Although, the author of evilbible.com calls people who define atheism as such: the “few morons” who are “so damn stupid” for doing so (see History of Atheism for that nugget).The only evidence for lacking belief in God is a declaration that states such lack of belief.
Note that atheists are not content merely indoctrinating their own children but also want to dictate how you are to raise your own children.
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