A couple of questions for atheists

[dyresand]

1) Do you consider indoctrination to be child abuse? What about taking children to church?

Yes, because a child is learning at a young age why limit their education with faerie tales. Its not to say you are saving them from hell but are encouraging them that god made everything when evidence goes against it. Better to be educated than believe in a story from the bible to be true.

2) If so, would you theoretically support this being made into law? (Disregarding the practicality of enforcing it.) My answer is yes.

Yes children are our future they maybe the shittiest generation, non the less they are our future and need to be educated.

On an unrelated topic, I found this video from 2007 of Sam Harris. I wondered what people's opinion is about it. He talks about the possible harm of using the "atheist" label. I can see where he is coming from, and agree with some of the barriers that have been inadvertently thrown up. But I personally think this is outweighed by the effect it has on making it easier for the next atheist to "come out". It may be a moot point now, but I thought it would be interesting to discuss.

Labels hurt everyone look at history and the fact that blacks gotten treated so badly and the animosity is still there and prevalent even in the north in some areas, but really bad in the south. The thing is with the label atheist, theist tend to call them killers and or blasphemers and treat them badly not knowing full well what an atheist truly is. I think that stems from the church because if people make out conclusions to the world that make sense and says magic is bullshit they are going to attack atheists because we don't believe in magic or anything in the bible and the truth is none of the bible is true. So that being the case its better to be a atheist in a first world country rather than a third world country because you would get killed over it.