Comments on: Atheist scientists often expose their children to religion

By: BC

BC — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:49:25 +0000

Deities and Demigods from the AD&D game exposes the reader to a whole host of different gods. I think that’s where I learned about Ra and Set when I was a kid and a generation later it is helping with my kids.

It wasn’t my idea, it was something I read — Aretae, was that yours?

By: Aretae

Aretae — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:37:29 +0000

I’m with Eric. I find that a good handle on non-Christian myths is something of an innoculation. My kids like Greek myths, and occasionally stories about Thor.

By: Eric Crampton

Eric Crampton — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:40:10 +0000

Why wouldn’t they expose their kids to religion? A whole pile of cultural literacy requires knowing the basic myths held by others. With our kids, we started them on Greek myths, bit of Norse (Wagnerian), then on to Christian myths. So there’s Zeus and Aries and Jesus and Woton and they’re all fun stories; it’s just that some folks think that one set of them are true.

By: Gwern

Gwern — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 16:14:25 +0000

“found that at least 17% had brought their children to a religious service in the past year.”

That’s astonishingly low. I wonder how they are managing to attend any religious service that rarely? (Do they know no one who has died or gotten married? Are they truly that impervious to their wives’ wishes?)