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To: Solon who wrote (4936)5/14/2010 6:41:24 AM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) of 69300
 
What I said was truthful. BTW do you agree with Richard Dawkins that raising a child in a religion is child abuse and should be made illegal?

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Is the Teaching of Religion Really a Form of Child Abuse?

godandscience.org

In one of the largest studies of its kind, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill examined the role of religion in the lives of nearly 2500 adolescents.9 The adolescents indicated the level of their indoctrination (i.e., frequency of church attendance) and importance of religion, along with a number of activities that they have or have not participated in. Listed below are graphs of behaviors that would generally be considered to be unfavorable. To see larger versions of the graphs, just hover your cursor over the thumbnail image.

30 different charts are shown. A few of them:









These data show that religiously indoctrinated youth are much less involved with illegal substances, alcohol abuse, criminal and violent activities, and have fewer problems in school. Dawkins's hypothesis that religious indoctrination is bad for children has been soundly falsified. In fact, those who never attend church or feel that religion is not important display far more symptoms of real child abuse than those who are subject to frequent religious indoctrination.
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