My family are all Christian Fundamentalists, whereas I am an atheist and my wife is a neopagan.
Several years ago when my children were 5 and 7 years old we sent them to spend a couple of weeks with my parents in Florida, when we lived in Ohio so they could spend some time with each other.
When the kids came back home they had nightmares for weeks because they were terrified that "god was going to kill them for sinning" and then even if they did get to go to heaven they would be all alone unless they managed to convince my wife and I to get saved.
They picked up all of this in just 2 weeks, 4 trips to church and living with my fundie parents for 14 days.
Dawkins is overstating the case if you are looking at liberal Christian churches, but even mainstream Christian churches here in the States teach kids far to young to understand all about hellfire and brimstone and yes, that is absolutely a form of child abuse.
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Date: 24/7/11 16:09 (UTC)My family are all Christian Fundamentalists, whereas I am an atheist and my wife is a neopagan.
Several years ago when my children were 5 and 7 years old we sent them to spend a couple of weeks with my parents in Florida, when we lived in Ohio so they could spend some time with each other.
When the kids came back home they had nightmares for weeks because they were terrified that "god was going to kill them for sinning" and then even if they did get to go to heaven they would be all alone unless they managed to convince my wife and I to get saved.
They picked up all of this in just 2 weeks, 4 trips to church and living with my fundie parents for 14 days.
Dawkins is overstating the case if you are looking at liberal Christian churches, but even mainstream Christian churches here in the States teach kids far to young to understand all about hellfire and brimstone and yes, that is absolutely a form of child abuse.