Morality Quote by Scott Klusendorf

“Some people do not want to examine religious influences of child maltreatment. However, if we fail to look at all influences and risk factors,…

— Janet Heimlich

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

— Al Stefanelli

Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this…

— Mary Garden

“Morals do exist outside of organized religion, and the ‘morality’ taught by many of these archaic systems is often outdated, sexist, racist, and teaches…

— David G. McAfee

“Religion is a subject which, if the believers used the same "reasoning" to address problems at work as they use to defend their beliefs,…

— Dave Champion

Children are free moral agents and have a right to be exposed to a range of beliefs well beyond the rigid doctrinal confines of…

— Tim Wise

“...moral and religious education, and especially the education a child receives at home, where parents are allowed - even expected - to determine for…

— Nicholas Humphrey

It is a mistake to try to impose Christian beliefs on children and to make them the basis of moral training. The moral education…

— Margaret E. Knight

Religion is as harmless as a toddler with a handgun.

— Rock Cowles

The stirrings of morality emerge early in childhood. Toddlers spontaneously offer toys and help to others and try to comfort people they see in…

— Steven Pinker

“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

Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel.

— Anne Lamott