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I wonder of course why you bring it up since it is generally accepted that parents have no right to misinform their children.

I reject the notion that atheists are free to teach their beliefs and believers are not.

And good luck squaring that circle. Because by a remarkable quirk of psychology, no believer in anything ever believes they're misinforming anyone.

This fact seems oddly detached from the content of the beliefs.

So who gets to decide whether or not parents are misleading their kids?

Of course if by believers you really mean 'Katrin and religious people with the same value system as Katrin' and not 'those people over there whose weird superstitions I have no time for because they're obviously nonsense and dangerous to boot' then - wait, what was your point again?

You really don't see the obvious contradiction in this, do you?

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Tue Feb 11th, 2014 at 10:35:38 AM EST
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