OnlyAmbrose wrote:Parents pass on their values. An atheist couple is going to raise their kid to be atheist. A Jewish couple will raise their kid Jewish. And so on.
Moral or no, that's what happens, and that's what's going to happen until (God forbid) kids are separated from their parents at birth.
To some extent this is true, however I don't think it's the whole truth. Regardless of the right or wrong for the moment, people with a religion are more likely to bring thair child up of that religion than those without are to bring up their children as atheists. A religious parent who regularly goes to church will involve their child in their religion from an early age without even thinking about it. Its natural. But for an atheist to prevent their child having involvement in religion means actively preventing it; making a conscious decision to not allow your child to hang around with a Christian kid for example. Whilst some people will do this of course, purely the passive vs active involvement would surely skew the stats alone. I've heard this argument many times and I think its easy to think of all atheists as drum banging Christian/Muslim/Jew haters, just like its easy to think of all Christians as pushy recruiters; on either side this just isn't the case for the vast majority.
In terms of do I agree with the OP. Well kind of. In an ideal world all children would be allowed to make their own choice, but in actuality this isn't even practical let alone realistic. My Dad loves cricket, funnily enough so do I, shouldn't I have been allowed to make my own choice, maybe I would have been into football or tennis, who knows. I think everybody should strive to help their children understand all sides of any aspect of life and make their own decisions for themselves, but it is crazy to suggest we should try and prevent ourselves from letting some of our beliefs, likes, dislikes and passions being passed on.
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