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Most of the stained glass I googled was for desktop backgrounds, I figure. Very eclectic. Gorgeous, indeed!
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Do you think that the problem is atheists aren't teaching their children about religion?
Or could it be that atheists are teaching their children too much about religion?
What I said was that atheists as a group know more than any other in the US, this indeed true.
http://www.pewforum.org/2010/09/28/u-s-religious-knowledge-survey-who-knows-what-about-religion/
Do you really for one moment think that atheists don't know they are vastly outnumbered in this country and that they have to go along to get along?
It's obvious whenever an atheist doesn't go along, it makes headlines and generates some really ugly rhetoric against a supremely unpopular minority.
At the very least, people should refrain from being negative about religion, and even better if they can teach their children that there are many religions and believing or not believing is ok.
I agree with you and the author that indoctrination is not necessarily unique to religion. It can be tricky, but it makes a lot of sense to give kids as much information as you can, and to do it in a nonjudgmental fashion.
Otherwise, you are just as bas as any other "one way" group.
Maybe religion can, too - but for the purposes of your analogy - not a good analogy. Or, at times, way too good of an analogy. 
Children will hear about religion from TV, movies, other children, and then will ask questions. The answer would be, in my home, that some people believe in religion, with a nod to the very many different and conflicting religions, but I do not. The conversation - from ME - would stop right there, although my child would certainly be free to investigate on his own.
Comparative religion is taught in college. That's a good place to start making choices.
Another point that someone else brought up - I sincerely doubt that Atheism is taught as a positive choice in very many theist households. Or even mentioned. Families do not need to be infiltrated by religion if the parents are Atheist. I doubt Christian household teach Atheism, Buddhism, or being Muslim as a choice that they will enlarge upon.
When my son was 14, I let him attend Baptist church with the next door neighbors' kids. I was assured it was a social thing.
One Sunday he went with them for an "afternoon party". Turned out they BAPTIZED him, immersion style. And told me that they were afraid to let me know, in case I objected. He told me later that he just wanted to fit in with the other kids.
And he also brought home a flyer inviting us all to see a special movie about how Mormons are the anti-Christ.
My sister was a Mormon at that time. End of relationship with neighbors.
This reminds me of the push, a while back, to start teaching from the Christian bible in public elementary and middle schools. Creationism. In Georgia, I think. The same argument was used, about how children should be "exposed" to religion. As long as it was Christian, of course.
And objections were sneeringly met with "What are you afraid of?"
My answer - proselytize on your own dime, people have a right to raise their children as they wish, as far as religion goes. And if a family is atheist, that really means they don't think about religion at all, atheism is not something that needs to be discussed, attend services, all that sort of thing.For young children, because they are too young to make their own choices, Jesus is pretty much the same thing as the Easter bunny or Santa Claus. Something their parents push. Or not.
I think they were covered under "Lying for the Lord".
I think they also knew that their close friend, a tobacco farmer down the road, who built a spec house every winter (countryside north of Durham), had built my house using untreated lumber for the supports and floor (over the crawl space). When I got transferred to Tampa by my big evil telecom company, the relocation inspector would not give the house a passing grade because of wood rot underneath the house, and in the deck where it attached to the house. When he found out who built it, he had a word with him, all visible rot was fixed (not my expense) and the relocation company bought it so I could move. This was a two year old house.
Six months later I saw that the house had sold for more than the relocation company paid me, and called them because I was entitled to part of that profit, after their expenses. The guy I talked to was really pissy - because the buyer inspection revealed that anything heavy like full washer, or refrigerator or full bathtub - would likely have fallen through a rotten floor in the near future, Had to jack up the house and replace a bunch or wood. Small rancher. So there was no profit left.
And everyone involved in that went to church together every Sunday.
Although North Carolina is a beautiful beautiful state, I did not like the politics and the racism, perhaps it is different now, and was different in the cities back then. Jesse Helms! Quite the god-fearing man indeed! And, of course, I was a damned Yankee. Legitimate target, out in the country.
And there are videos of ghosts!
I see a cartoon in your future.