(January 31, 2017 at 12:06 pm)Astonished Wrote: In what way is any of that relevant? If they're converting from other faiths then they're already dyed in the wool, so what's the real difference? Besides which, those are the kind of people who are going to end up making the decision about whether to subject their kids to this (or others' kids, FSM forbid). And if many of them have been subjected to that as children themselves, they can grow up believing it's the way to go about indoctrinating, and may have been a key factor in preventing their emancipation. Those facts don't address the problem here, maybe in some other thread.
I just thought it was a ridiculous notion that if you wait until a child is older, they will laugh in your face. The data do not support the often assumed assertion that children indoctrination is responsible for Christianity being the fastest growing, freely chosen religion in world. Look at the rate of growth in China--a communist country that suppressed religion for the past 50 years.
It is further interesting to note that Pew projects:
Quote:Similarly, the religiously unaffiliated population is projected to shrink as a percentage of the global population, even though it will increase in absolute number. In 2010, censuses and surveys indicate, there were about 1.1 billion atheists, agnostics and people who do not identify with any particular religion.5 By 2050, the unaffiliated population is expected to exceed 1.2 billion. But, as a share of all the people in the world, those with no religious affiliation are projected to decline from 16% in 2010 to 13% by the middle of this century.
http://www.pewforum.org/2015/04/02/relig...2010-2050/
You are simply not getting your word out. Further, you can't even keep your children in your camp if this is to be believed.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyath...-children/
You would think that if Christianity was so obviously wrong, then certainly children of atheists, who have been sheltered from the childhood indoctrination that supposedly makes it easier to believe would be nearly 100% unlikely to freely join a religion.
