(November 6, 2015 at 11:22 am)drfuzzy Wrote: I believe it. I was raised very very religious - WAAY out on the lunatic fringe of the right wing-tip, as some of you know.
So I remember times when I was a jerk: one boy in second grade told me his family never went to church, so my mom had me give him some gospel tracts (cringing - I'm so sorry, Loren . . .); times when I avoided the catholic and jewish kids, or tried to tell them that "Pioneer Girls" (a xtian alternative to the "evil" (ha) Girl Scouts) was better because we were Christians . . . augh. I remember watching my mother rudely tell Laura's mother why I couldn't go to Laura's birthday party: "I'm sorry, but we do not associate with non-Christians.". Laura was the only Jewish girl in my class. She was probably very sweet and (sigh) . . . lonely.
The meta-message permeated everything in my world: the members of my church were good people. Nobody else was to be trusted.
Oh, absolutely - - children need to be raised atheist.
Yes the smug feeling of misplaced superiority they must feel.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
