Until I came across this statement from Canadian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist Lawrence Krauss years ago, it hadn’t dawned on me that teaching children evangelical Christianity could be properly called “child abuse.”

I can tell you that I took some grief from certain family members when I didn’t send my young kids off to Sunday School. I explained that I wouldn’t have my son and daughter indoctrinated into a belief that is distinctly counter-scientific.

My family and I eventually mended the fences, but it was rough for a while.

If it makes you happy to tell your kids that, when they die, they will live up in heaven with grandma, that’s OK with me, since no one really know what happens upon our demise.  But there is something that’s particularly objectionable about explaining to young people that there were no dinosaurs, and that they must never trust scientists.

Respecting Geologic History