(May 2, 2013 at 12:26 pm)John V Wrote: Can't recall if I've seen it on this forum, but I've seen atheists who believe that bringing up a child in a religion is child abuse. You can take children away from abusive parents. So, I disagree that his saying atheists want your children is incorrect.
Just because a situation can be constructed in which you "can" do something, it doesn't follow that you must do that thing. Child abuse is not a one-size-fits-all deal and there is a whole spectrum of degrees of abuse even within the separately defined categories. Consequently there are other avenues beside removing children from parents; supportive counselling, for one, for both parent and child.
So I disagree that you saying his saying atheists want your children is incorrect is correct.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
