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LifeSite is reporting that the secular humanist Center for Inquiry is considering a proposal that would declare any religious training of children to be child abuse. This would be laughable, but for their growing influence. CFI is officially recognized by the UN as a Non-Governmental Organization, with the all the rights and privileges that brings. I’d ask what the world was coming to, but I think we’ve already established that.

Religious Education by Parents is “Child Abuse”: Center for Inquiry Proposal
States “In one form or another, all religions violate the rights of children.”

By Peter J. Smith

NEW YORK, June 18, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Religious education is a form of child abuse and violates the rights of children, contends a thesis to be considered by secular humanists at the Center for Inquiry’s congress in Beijing this October.

The Center for Inquiry, an organisation recently awarded special consultative status as an NGO at the United Nations (UN) will consider the proposals of Innaiah Narisetti, the chairman of the Center for Inquiry’s India chapter, that portend the next stage in the assault on the rights of parents to educate their children.

Nasiretti called the influence of religion a “severe shortcoming in the global campaign to protect children” and a contributor to child abuse saying, “In one form or another, all religions violate the rights of children.”

“Such abuse begins with the involuntary involvement of children in religious practices from the time they are born,” says Narisetti. “All religions, through ritual, preaching, and religious texts, seek to bring children into day-to-day religious practice.”

“This gives holy books and scriptures, as well as those who teach them, an early grip on the developing minds of young people, leaving an indelible impression on them,” said Narisetti, calling Sunday schools, madrassas, or Jewish or Hindu temples, centers of indoctrination for children.

At least they are equal opportunity bigoted atheists.

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