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Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

I know that what I see in every religious person is not something I want to teach my kids.

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.

It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

I think parents should be able to teach their kids what their faith says, what science says.

My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.