Why do atheists care what people believe?

[Aconite]

Originally Posted by TKramar

Well, I went to a PUBLIC school, perhaps if I was educated at a private school that might have happened, but we believed in the separation of church and state where I grew up.

When my eldest were in public kindergarten one of the mommies took me aside and told me that, while my daughter and her boy played well together, she was having great difficulty with it. Apparently, the difficulty was explaining to her son that yes, in fact, my daughter was going to hell because she didn't love Jesus. IIRC, I just sort of stared at her in shock, and said something terribly inane like "uh...yeah, I can see where that might be a problem for you, condemning a five-year-old to hell". Shortly thereafter he told dd he wasn't allowed to play with her, and why.

While the teachers may not have been imparting lessons, the classmates surely were.

[Asheville Native]

Originally Posted by Aconite

When my eldest were in public kindergarten one of the mommies took me aside and told me that, while my daughter and her boy played well together, she was having great difficulty with it. Apparently, the difficulty was explaining to her son that yes, in fact, my daughter was going to hell because she didn't love Jesus. IIRC, I just sort of stared at her in shock, and said something terribly inane like "uh...yeah, I can see where that might be a problem for you, condemning a five-year-old to hell". Shortly thereafter he told dd he wasn't allowed to play with her, and why.

While the teachers may not have been imparting lessons, the classmates surely were.

Hatred is a family value, and I see that woman is passing in on to her children at an early age. Yet again, undeniable evidence that religion is a negative force in society.

That woman is disgusting, yet probably is living under the self pious delusion that she is going to heaven for teaching her child to hate.