atheism and children

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The problem is the two different meanings of immoral.

Immoral: has negative/harmful consequences

Immoral: it's bad because God says so

These are not the same thing. It's easy for theists to defend actions that happen to fall into both categories, but once it starts being only the second one, the explanation is going to sound absurd to anyone outside the religion. If the "harm" is just the theists themselves being upset because they have upset God, then that harm does not translate to people outside of the religion. So to continue to call it immoral for them in any meaningful way is invalid. You could only say it would be immoral if they were Catholic. There is no harm for atheists, literally all that remains is God's feelings. And really, an omnipotent God (should he exist) shouldn't be having human emotions, and should be able to deal with it.