Teach children about Jesus at a young age,

[emjay]

That's great emjay! The last bit I mean It's good to hear from you.

I agree. I can see a case for an age of consent for religious stuff. There's absolutely no need to be bothering young children with it. It's sick.

I would hope society would come to that realization on it's own, as trying to enforce this would probably be very difficult.

I don't know how many adults think about hell. Some people (we have some examples) seem to get great pleasure thinking about other people going there.

Thanks man, it's nice to hear from you too   I think it was actually mainly you that brought me out of my shell on that one... so thank you... you and this site have done a lot for me in the road to pure atheism 

Yeah I know it would probably be impossible to enforce but it was a nice dream while it lasted. But something I think that could be achieved is just people being a bit more mindful and realising when something they're saying is personal belief that is not shared by everyone. Any time that happens if people just said 'I believe this but some other people don't' or 'some people believe this or that' it would make a whole lot of difference. I mean it's a problem we all face... talking about our beliefs as fact without qualifying it that way all the time... I do... but I do try to be mindful as much as I can and use the magic word 'some' because it makes all the difference.

Yeah, and I take great pleasure in knowing that if heaven existed, such self-righteous, sadistic people would be going nowhere near it