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My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

— Christopher Hitchens

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Polly Toynbee

I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.

— Yehuda Amichai

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.

— Flea

I tell my children what I think myself: That religion is not necessarily convincing, but it is still interesting and not to be laughed at or denigrated.

— Alain de Botton

I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.

— Adam Savage

The only thing I have retained from my upbringing - I did not retain the religious element - is the idea that you do not do things for money.

— John Sulston

Religion teaches you to be satisfied with nonanswers. It's a sort of crime against childhood.

— Richard Dawkins

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Vincent Cassel

Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.

— Nawal El Saadawi

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.

— Liz Williams