Atheist Scientists putting their own kids into religious school?

[Hung_Low]

Wow... amazing how they hate religious people so much but only enrolled their kids in religious school system and not public school.

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/07/study-some-atheists-with-children-attend-with-religious-services/?iref=allsearch&hpt=hp_t2

http://news.yahoo.com/atheists-church-doing-children-225034079.html

[tetrapod]

Wow... amazing how they hate religious people so much but only enrolled their kids in religious school system and not public school.

http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/07/study-some-atheists-with-children-attend-with-religious-services/?iref=allsearch&hpt=hp_t2

Do atheists really hate religious people as you claim? 

[tetrapod]

"Some actually see it as part of their scientific identity," Ecklund said in a telephone interview. "They want to teach their children to be free thinkers, to give them religious choices, and so they take their children to religious organizations just to give them exposure to religion."

I find this hard to swallow.  Kids at church are taught not to think but to accept what is told.  This is the opposite of a scientific mind, to question to wonder about everything.  DeCart carried this so far; he wasn't sure about anything other than that he is conscious: "I think therefore; I am."

[SpottedCow]

the direction of public education these days, I rather pay for my children to attend a private school or, heck, even home school them myself.