RE: Do we need more Atheist books for kids?
November 27, 2014 at 7:19 pm
(This post was last modified: November 27, 2014 at 7:26 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(November 27, 2014 at 6:31 pm)MechViking Wrote: atheism must be a big part of your identity though if you get so offended when i say it's not the only correct way of thinking.About as big a part of my personality as the fact that I don't coon hunt. What is a big part of my personality is a sort of seething irritation when people say absurd things - particularly in service of vacant notions. Offended, though - meh, not so much.
So... no additional insights as to why teaching atheism to children would be different than teaching biology? You're not worried about the cult of biology, or that by teaching children biology we might be teaching them that this is the only correct way to think? Conversely, would you say that we ought to let people decide what to think for themselves when it comes to eating lead paint?
(I do, if anyone even wondered, think that "atheism is the only correct way to think" - as ridiculous as that phrase is, but that wouldn't really have anything to do with why your statement struck me as such a silly thing to say.)
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