"There isn't a comfortable place between raising children to pray-worship-believe and raising them not to."
Sorry but that is ridiculous!The comfortable place is respecting children as individual human beings with a right to decide important questions for themselves and not as appendages to be force fed whatever beliefe system their parents have adopted.
You don't force children (or shouldn't) to be Tories or socialists from infancy. If someone did this to a child, people would think it abhorrent. Yet, in this country, we allow our taxes to spend on faith schools where one person's belief systems is foisted on them with unwavering acceptance.
Of course, christians, like other faiths like to catch children before their minds are developed enough to think for themselves. What chance does a faith have without functioning in this way? But I would ask in what way does unquestioning complaince to any particular creed help to create thinking, independent minded individuals?
That is what I want my children to be.
Faith, religious or politically, is a personal matter of choice and should be a matter for those who have the capacity to understand the implications of what they are advocating. To say, you either pray or don't pray, is missing the point - the point is to avoid indoctrination.
HOWEVER, if you send your child to a faith school, for whatever reason, then you get what comes with it.