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“Our society, including the non-religious sector, has accepted the preposterous idea that it is normal and right to indoctrinate tiny children in the religion…

— Richard Dawkins

It is immoral to brand children with religion. 'This is a Catholic child.' 'That is a Muslim child.' I want everyone to flinch when…

— Richard Dawkins

“Atheists as well as theists unconsciously observe society’s convention that we must be especially polite and respectful to faith. And I never tire of…

— Richard Dawkins

“I think we should all wince when we hear a small child being labelled as belonging to some particular religion or another. Small children…

— Richard Dawkins

“Labelling of children. Children are described as 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' etc. from an early age, and certainly far too early for them…

— Richard Dawkins

I do disapprove very strongly of labelling children, especially young children, as something like 'Catholic children' or 'Protestant children' or 'Islamic children.'

— Richard Dawkins

A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents. This…

— Richard Dawkins

Small children believe themselves to be gods, or some of them do, and they can only be satisfied when the rest of the world…

— Neil Gaiman

There's a natural tendency for children to, in some sense, inherit the cultural values of their parents. I'm not against that, that's fine, that's…

— Richard Dawkins

Unlike these powerful grown-ups, children have no ideologies to reinforce, no superstructure of political opinion to promote, no civic equanimity or image to defend,…

— Jonathan Kozol

There are millions of young children being educated to a very narrow-minded view of religion. And it's out of that education of large numbers…

— Tony Blair

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