1962 Quote by Gore Vidal

“Can a child come to love his neighbor unless he has known love himself? Can a young person who has never been trusted learn…

— Harold B. Lee

“It would be unjust toward children to introduce them to Christian teaching and existence only as little pagans and catechumens, in order to leave…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

Christianity, just as much as Islam, teaches children that unquestioned faith is a virtue. You don't have to make the case for what you…

— Richard Dawkins

“Perhaps as sects multiply, belief diminishes.”

— Graham Greene

“evangelism of children nonetheless seeks to cut off the process of independent thought before it begins. It’s this aspect of religious indoctrination that is…

— Dale McGowan

To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined knowledge the…

— Henry James

“The view implicit in my education was that the basic narrative of Christianity had long been exposed as a myth, and that opinion was…

— Evelyn Waugh

“How many winds of doctrine we have known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking. The small boat of…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“Of course, when the barbarians doggedly persist and use the most refined methods to destroy morality, the family, and the mystery, it is necessary…

— Robert Sarah

“Indoctrinating a child with fundamentalist religious doctrine warps their instinctive attributes and causes them to contradict reason by default.”

— Al Stefanelli

We all must have the faith of children, but the doctrine of theologians.

— Josemaria Escriva

“When faithful Christianity is defined primarily as, “protecting the truth, insulating our children, and surviving the onslaught of competing thoughts,” the battle is lost.”

— David T. Olson