For example, François's new right - wing colleague, Godefroy Lempereur, introduces him to a nativist literature heavy on demographic studies purporting to show that «belief in a transcendent being conveys a genetic advantage: that couples who follow one of the three religions of the Book and maintain patriarchal values have more
children than atheists or agnostics.
Not exact matches
First, the writers — quoting
atheist proselytizer Richard Dawkins — claim that
children of religious parents should not be considered religious, more
than implying that their «beliefs» should be considered those of the secular state.
FYI «
children and other living things» are neither
atheists nor theists, those false labels are created and imposed by adult humans in their desire to be seen as something other
than what they are.
Are you really so naive as to think that more
children of
Atheist become Christian
than children of Christians become
Atheist?
The rate of
child abuses in society is 7 % and there is no reason to believe that
atheists are less likely to offend
than others.
Atheists have murdered more
children in the last 100 years
than were killed in all previous centuries.
I was jarringly reminded of the difficulties Hugh Ambrose will face, growing up a Catholic in a country where a fundamentalist
atheist can get away with claiming that people who bring up their
children Catholic are worse
than paedophiles.
«Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, unwittingly reveals what draws the new
atheists towards the Catholic - abuse story:... «Odious as the physical abuse of
children by priests undoubtedly is, I suspect that it may do them less lasting damage
than the mental abuse of bringing them up Catholic in the first place», [http://richarddawkins.net/articles/118?page=2].
Atheists now: Vehement
children, pathetically attacking the beliefs of others and asserting their disbelief makes them rational rather
than their rationality leading to their disbelief.
These parents are more likely
than the general population to be liberal; less likely to be Christian; more likely to be
atheist; and more likely to send their
child to a charter school.