Reading Time: 4 minutes As our children grow up, they push back against our authority. It’s natural, and parents ought to be tolerant, rather than treating it as an offense.
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Posted inFree Expression
Why Christian extremists are menacing an Idaho library
Reading Time: 10 minutes It’s not enough that Christian extremists in Idaho control what their own children read. They don’t want control of just their own children’s reading choices. They already have that. Instead, they want control over the reading choices of everyone, most especially the children of heathens.
Posted inDeep Dive
What makes ‘skeptical’ kids grow up to be God-believing adults?
Reading Time: 8 minutes If kids are the savvy, skeptical creatures that Will Gervais proposes in his recent essay, why do endless hordes of them in each generation turn into conservative American adults who uncritically worship invisible gods with zero objective verification? And what makes these same supposedly mature folks end up uncritically adoring visible but damaged demigods on […]
Posted inPsychology
Is religion rooted in childhood gullibility?
Reading Time: 13 minutes The vast majority of people who ever lived have believed in the existence of one god or another. What are the evolutionary forces that made our species—and our species alone—a religious one? Evolutionary thinkers have spilled much ink trying to answer questions like this. Some answers have proven to be much more successful than others. […]
Posted inFilm/TV
‘Scientology, The Aftermath’: A reminder that ‘religious freedom’ can be dangerous
Reading Time: 7 minutes After I recently finished watching the Emmy-winning 2016-2019 A&E docuseries, “Leah Remini: Scientology and The Aftermath,” I was further convinced of how supremely dangerous the concept of “religious freedom” can be as practiced in America, as I stressed in my 2018 book, Holy Smoke: How Christianity Smothered the True American Dream. And expensive. Remini’s series […]
Posted inReligious News
Child Evangelism Fellowship seizes school shooting opportunity to recruit children
Reading Time: 3 minutes Child Evangelism Fellowship is now distributing indoctrination booklets to already-traumatized kids and families in Uvalde
Posted inWar and Peace
Child Evangelism Fellowship ‘caring for Ukrainian children’ with threats of hell
Reading Time: 3 minutes Child Evangelism Fellowship is now targeting Ukrainian children under the guise of refugee relief.
Posted inReligion
The creepiest headline I’ve seen from Child Evangelism Fellowship
Reading Time: 4 minutes CEF has posted some really cringy and tone-deaf articles on their website in the past. However, this one… this one is creepy as hell.
Posted inParenting & Family
My 6-year-old’s best friend invited him to church—and the church paid him to do it
Reading Time: 4 minutes Last weekend, my youngest son invited his best friend to come over and play. They had a great time. They played video games, built some Lego creations, and somehow made enough slamming and banging noises throughout the house to make me think we invited his entire first-grade class over. But when they took a break […]
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Christian Parenting Advice: Deliberately Overflow Your Child’s Faith Pool
Reading Time: 7 minutes Hi and welcome back! As you likely know, Christians these days are quite distressed over how quickly teens and young adults are leaving the faith. One guy’s written what he claims will absolutely help parents keep their kids Christian for life. It amounts to instructions for the deliberate construction of a faith pool in a child’s mind. […]