to think that some non-religious parents over-react just a teensy-weensy bit when their children are exposed to religion in the most benign form?

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s'ok if I am. But threads complaining about this sort of thing are a regular MN feature, and I can't help thinking that some parents seem tremendously precious about it. We're Christians and it often comes up that not everyone believes the way we do, and I talk to my children about it and they wander off and scribble on the lounge walls again.

I've seen people complaining about Christian mums and tots groups, simple 'thankyou' prayers and christian charities. I am 100% ok with you bringing your children up atheist, theist, or chocolate-worshipping. Honestly, if I whipped myself up into a panic over every mention of different beliefs or none that my children encounter, I'd never get anything done.

(Please note, this is not a church schools whinge, I'm against selection on religious grounds.)

Well, thankyou all for coming, and I hope to see you on a sensible, unhysterical and informative thread about random religious topics soon.

Seeya, possums!

I heard once that people who put fish signs on their cars either a) are not believers but think that somehow it will make traffic wardens think that they are Nice Churchgoing Respectable people and not give them tickets or b) people who drive like twats because their imaginary friend will stop them dying in a hideous crash and fireball (oh but it doesn;t matter how many sinful unbelievers they force off the road)...

beaniesteve - you're right, "Hitler was a Christian" is about as relevant as "Stalin was an atheist".

And "Catholics and Protestants were fighting each other in Northern Ireland so that proves that religion is bad." ;)