In fact free-market capitalism is the state ideology of the west, and increasingly also other parts of the world. Instead of a catechism, you have advertising and state propaganda. Instead of priests, you have talking heads and dumb headlines.

this is the real state religion, in its way more destructive than any monotheistic killing spree.

as regards parents'belief systems and how they interface with growing childrens' credulity, there are good values and bad ones, and both can be taught/modeled with or without religion.

being raised by religious assholes would be the worst!

it'd be interesting to know how many atheists were raised in a faith, by non-assholes, to then reject it.

likewise religious people raised by non-assholes who were atheists...

personally i think this is the nub of the discussion, and headscarves are just a somewhat distractive step on the way to that realisation.

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