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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I believe the children are our future Teach them well and let them lead the way.[/quote]Children are always the way of the future.  There would be no future without them.   More and more children are being raised without religion and more and more people, especially educated people,  are rejecting religion.  This has been the case in Europe for decades and is happening now in the US.  Much more accurate information about religion is available to everyone outside of religious institutions.

Teach the children well and let them lead the way.[/quote]
What wonderful thoughts.  Like religion, they are worth believing because of the happiness they bring.

I am old, and grew up a non-believer.  I looked back at previous generations, at people like George Bernard Shaw and Bertrand Russell, at people I knew, and thought religion was a relic of the past.  But now I look around at born again evangelists and fundamentalist Muslims and realize how I underestimated the will to believe.

Children are surely the future, but by the time they inherit it, they will no longer be children, and will have the same weaknesses today's adults have.[/quote]

I am more optimistic than you, having seen the changes more education and awareness can bring (as in Europe).   Even on this board, staunch defenders of an ancient dogmatic religion like Catholicism, now claim to be Catholic, while breaking many of the still existing rules -- things they would have been ex-communicated for in the past (if not burned at the stake!). Some liberal protestant churches are welcoming agnostics and academic seminaries have been teaching accurate biblical history for decades.

In Europe, churches are being refashioned as arts centers and in the US, some are being turned in to condos and bars.   The will to believe is still there, but it's evolving away from organized, dogmatic religion and that is a good thing.[/quote]

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