Famed Atheist Richard Dawkins: Forcing Religion on Kids Is ‘Child Abuse’
Famed evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins made a claim over the weekend that will likely draw the ire of religious people across the globe: That forcing religion upon children is a form of child abuse.
Rather than “indoctrination,” Dawkins called for a form of education in which children merely learn that different people embrace various theological claims.
“What a child should be taught is that religion exists; that some people believe this and some people believe that,” he told an audience at England’s Chipping Norton Literary Festival on Sunday, according to the Daily Mail....