{"id":6336,"date":"2009-11-18T09:32:41","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T14:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=6336"},"modified":"2009-11-18T09:32:41","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T14:32:41","slug":"atheist-campaign-targets-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/atheist-campaign-targets-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Atheist campaign targets children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The idea that a child can be brought up in a belief-neutral setting is nonsense. This <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/8366225.stm\" target=\"_blank\">new atheist venture<\/a> is, in truth, a bid to proselytise an anti-God faith message to children:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/46749000\/jpg\/_46749996_ad_466.jpg\" alt=\"Add an Image\" width=\"466\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The group behind a controversial atheist bus-poster campaign is urging parents not to label their children with their own religious faith.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The British Humanist Association (BHA) has launched a series of billboard advertisements in capital cities.<\/p>\n<p>The posters are part of a campaign to challenge state-funded faith schools.<\/p>\n<p>But a representative of the Christian Schools Trust questioned who would &#8220;fill the vacuum&#8221; if parents did not pass on their fundamental beliefs.<\/p>\n<p><!-- E SF -->Professor Richard Dawkins, who has part-funded the BHA campaign in London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast, says labelling children as &#8220;religious&#8221; is a form of brainwashing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope this poster campaign will encourage the government, media and public to see children as individuals, free to make their own choices, and accord them the liberty and respect they deserve.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The BHA said the billboards were going up to coincide with Universal Children&#8217;s Day on Friday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The idea that a child can be brought up in a belief-neutral setting is nonsense. This new atheist venture is, in truth, a bid to proselytise an anti-God faith message to children: The group behind a controversial atheist bus-poster campaign &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/atheist-campaign-targets-children\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[2049],"class_list":["post-6336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism","tag-atheism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}