(March 11, 2015 at 4:03 pm)dyresand Wrote:(March 11, 2015 at 1:56 pm)RobertE Wrote: It is simply a question of being open-minded. We have mixed-race marriages, same-sex marriages, same sex couple adoption of children and many, many more other examples too long to be listed. People still live by the Torah, Bible or the Koran and it is about time that parents let their children at least have access to literature that teaches them to open their minds, and to think outside of religion. For some, it is too late, but it is upto the next generation of parents and also the schools to allow children read anything written by atheists, that way, children can actually make their own minds up as to which path they want to take in their lives. I have two daughters, they are not baptised and I have been chatting to them about Richard Dawkins, Charles Darwin, Sam Harris and demonstrating how they think freely and how happy they are in their lives.
That's really good only if theists parents did the same thing though but they highly likely wont.
I made that point earlier in my post but using different words. You say "they highly likely won't." I am not so sure, as RobValue has already pointed out in one of my posts, now that we have access to the internet, things are slowly turning around. Notable atheists are having debates and they are freely available to watch on youtube and to be honest, someone religious who decides to listen to a debate between an atheist or a number 6 agnostic (as Richard Dawkins likes to describe himself) and a priest/Imam etc, I am pretty sure that they will find that from a religious point of view, their argument is limited and is set in stone and perhaps there will be a moment where the religious child or teenager will actually start questioning his/her own faith and finally realise that there is a great deal more to learn in life. The internet is the answer, the material is there if people want to look for it.
