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It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.

The public schools tend to teach little kids from when they are very young about the whole universe without God and that God cannot be in science. They are indoctrinating children in an atheistic religious view of things.

Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

Just so that we are clear on this, I am in favour of teaching children about different beliefs. I am not in favour of indoctrinating them in any particular belief, including my own: these issues should be presented as beliefs, not as fact.

I think the main thing for kids is to have them believe in themselves.

Children are free moral agents and have a right to be exposed to a range of beliefs well beyond the rigid doctrinal confines of their parent's faith, and we have an obligation to insist that they be so exposed, at least in public schools, if not elsewhere.

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

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.

You teach your kids about your beliefs and tell them what you think is right and the conclusions that you've come to from living in the world, and then they can make their own decisions.