Posted on 06/30/2010 8:24:37 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
"He's got the whole world in his hands?" To one atheist, it's more like ‘He's got the whole world under his thumb."
David Smalley, the editor of American Atheist magazine and a self-described "civil rights activist," wrote in a personal blog post June 7 that Christian daycare "a form of child abuse."
"In short, by starting your child off in a Christian environment, you are heading them down a path of forced ignorance," Smalley wrote. "At least let your child begin in a secular world, and if he or she chooses Christianity after an age of accountability, then so be it. But forcing them to learn things as fact that you don't even know to be true is a form of child abuse: inducing psychosis with thoughts of good and evil watching over them, as if they are constantly being graded or evaluated."
Smalley further stereotyped and generalized religion-based childcare by suggesting "it's bad for positive self-esteem, and slows social development later in life."
American Atheist magazine is published by American Atheists, which calls itself "the premiere organization laboring for the civil liberties of Atheists, and the total, absolute separation of government and religion."
Smalley's post appeared on his blog, Dogma Debate. He also hosts an Internet radio show of the same name.
He is in for a very big surprise
“”At least let your child begin in a secular world, and if he or she chooses Christianity after an age of accountability, then so be it.”
Or, at least let your child begin in a Christian world, and if he or she chooses atheism after an age of accountability, then so be it.
Is David any relation to Stuart?
Most of my loved ones are stone-hearted atheists, and you remind me to continue praying for them despite the apparent hopelessness of the task.
Well, this ‘testimony’ is pretty much what a respectful atheist, or respectful non-Christian would confess in a candid moment: Christianity works at an empirical social level as evaluated quite apart from any theological tenets.
But as C. S. Lewis put it, either there is “pie in the sky” or there isn’t, and the question is quite independent of whether it is useful for political purposes.
How will they know what an age of accountability is if they never know right from wrong?
And who wants to be subject at any age to a system of “good and evil” that was merely invented by a bunch of monkeys? (If there’s no God)
> You will get smacked down by the Supreme Court so fast your
> head will spin.
I wouldn’t count on that after the Kenyan Kommunist stacks the court.
(...cough...)
"Smalley further stereotyped and generalized religion-based childcare by suggesting "it's bad for positive self-esteem, and slows social development later in life.""
Yep,we can see the truth in that by the mere fact that in the last few decades,as christianity has been relentlesly attacked and ridiculed,the youth in western culture have grown stronger in character and become so much more well adjusted than any of those religious fruitcakes of the past ever were.
Mr Smalley,your crap simply doesn't line up with reality.
(...cough...)
"Smalley further stereotyped and generalized religion-based childcare by suggesting "it's bad for positive self-esteem, and slows social development later in life.""
Yep,we can see the truth in that by the mere fact that in the last few decades,as christianity has been relentlesly attacked and ridiculed,the youth in western culture have grown stronger in character and become so much more well adjusted than any of those religious fruitcakes of the past ever were.
Mr Smalley,your crap simply doesn't line up with reality.
You know, there are no atheists in hell.
By the time they get THERE, they KNOW there is a God.
“by starting your child off in a Christian environment, you are heading them down a path of forced ignorance,” Smalley wrote.”
Wrong! “Train up a child in the way he should go:
and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
(Proverbs 22:6)
Exactly what does he think children should be taught about morality? That Stalin, Hitler, Manson, Obama, and Pol Pot are neither good nor evil, just people with views on ethics that may differ from their own? That good and evil are obsolete concepts that should be ignored? That adultery, theft, and murder, and pride, envy, and avarice are old fashioned concepts with no moral significance? No thank you. My children will learn that God created the heavens and the earth, that Jesus died for our sins (but that sin still exists as it is described in God’s Word), and that we have to make moral choices every day on whether to follow good or evil. If he has a problem with that, he can try to use force to impose his will ... on those who cling not just to God but also to guns.
I agree. I'm an atheist, but I am still glad I had a strong Baptist upbringing for two reasons: 1) it definitely instilled a sense of right and wrong in me, and 2) if you don't know Biblical history, you don't know Western Civilization.
Those two things more or less made up for the nightmares I used to have about people being crucified and stuff. LOL...
His time would be better spent worrying about what kids are being taught in madrasas right here in the US.
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