The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.
Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
I know that what I see in every religious person is not something I want to teach my kids.
I see religion as a storehouse of lots of really good ideas that a secular world should look at, raid, and learn from.
In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.
Priests, ministers and rabbis are asking where the children are going. Slowly but surely, they're seeing that people are hungry for something beyond the doctrine. It isn't that they don't want religious truth. But they want the mystical core, the heart of the religious truth.
It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.
I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.
There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.