Sunday School for Atheists - TIME

An estimated 14% of Americans profess to have no religion, and among 18-to-25-year-olds, the proportion rises to 20%, according to the Institute for Humanist Studies. The lives of these young people would be much easier, adult nonbelievers say, if they learned at an early age how to respond to the God-fearing majority in the U.S. "It's important for kids not to look weird," says Peter Bishop, who leads the preteen class at the Humanist center in Palo Alto. Others say the weekly instruction supports their position that it's O.K . to not believe in God and gives them a place to reinforce the morals and values they want their children to have. [article]


My thoughts : "I wish such things were offered as alternatives to religion. Why hasn't it happened so far ?
Educated people have the means to see that there is a way to seek meaning in life other than blind faith in something that someone crazy might have scribbled in an unconscious state at some point in time. But still this ability is greatly undermined by lack of exposure to intelligent thoughts and ideas when they grow up. What remains with them is what their parents taught them day in and day out about "going to the temple" and listening to the "religious overlords". They then take an easy route and try to explain the world based on crazy religious theories. They try to use little knowledge of science to try and explain religion in a logical way. Such organized efforts will offer educated people a way to question their insipidity at-least by the time their kids grew up."