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In Atheist Humor, Scott Ward pointed us to the The Oatmeal comic "How to suck at your religion".
A relevant snippet about indoctrination:
Comment by Paula T. on July 31, 2012 at 10:19pm
Comment by sk8eycat on July 31, 2012 at 3:16pm "Chick-fil-A Lays an Egg" blog post by Annie Laurie Gaylor, FFRF co-prez:
http://ffrf.org/news/blog/chick-fil-a-lays-an-egg/
The comments following the post are interesting, too.
(If Mr. Cathy runs his business on "biblical principles" as he claims, I wonder if he beats his "servants/slaves" when they make mistakes.)
Comment by booklover on July 31, 2012 at 11:57am Great analogy El Solo Lobo! :)
Comment by El Solo Lobo on July 31, 2012 at 9:34am God is a gentleman like Hitler was a great humanitarian.
Comment by booklover on July 31, 2012 at 9:11am Sylvia, so your friend thinks "god is a gentleman"? LOL That just cracks me up! Some gentleman!!!! Glad to be on FB with you :)
Comment by Loren Miller on July 31, 2012 at 5:28am Children should also be competent to understand, examine and analyze what they are being taught, particularly when it has been the church's longstanding history to get them young BEFORE they have such capacities. That is called Indoctrination.
Teaching that an unsupported and unproven superstition is true is bad enough. Insisting that one's life (or afterlife) DEPENDS on believing that superstition is far worse.
Comment by Sylvia on July 30, 2012 at 11:45pm
Comment by Sylvia on July 30, 2012 at 11:44pm
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