If majority of children born in to a family with a particular religion...?

By your telling your children that you are Atheist they will more than likely become Atheist because children want to do what their parents do. So you have influenced your children.

Yes christians have also influenced their children because if you are a christian you can't help but see God living in their lives. Just because they are influenced to be christians, they do not all practice a Godly faith. My son does not attend any church which breaks my heart, however my daughter does and is very active in teaching children and ladies Bible class.

None of us can truthfully say that we do not influence our children by what we say and do and by the way we live our lives. Children want to please their parent so most children will believe what their parents do.

Good question Traveler!

Did you notice that in terms of religion you had to use "that religion?" In other words, you cannot say that kids that kids are indoctrinated into "religion," but rather into a specific denomination, of a specific religion.

This atheist promoted 1) a love of learning and 2) a love of humanity. While the believers told their children that they must believe in a god, we told our children that our only requirement was that they understand what they are being asked to believe. We made it clear that our authority as parents would not be used to coerce them into any position or dogma they couldn't accept, and that our love for them would always remain the same regardless of the ideas they adopted.

All of them were close at one time or another to religious children. On occasion they even accompanied their friends to places of worship. Over the years they developed various views on many issues - e.g., some more conservative than the others. One even developed a fairly long association with a Buddhist ethical group.

I can assure you that if any, or all, of them adopted my ancestor's religion, or any religion, it would've been fine with us - as long as the group did not promote violence.

I think it can be a bit silly to think about "atheist indoctrination." I've never known atheist parents that go around telling their kids: "There is no god!" The ones I know would consider that the same kind of coercion as that conveyed by believers with the opposite message.

I exposed all 4 of my children to as many religions as I could. I then left it up to them to believe what made sense to them. 3 are atheist one is a believer although he has no ties to any particular religion.

My children have a great understanding and knowledge of religion. I don't close the door to knowledge in any manner.

I believe most children ARE indoctrinated into religion. One doesn't indoctrinate another into atheism.

If Richard Dawkins said that children are indoctrinated to a particular religion, particularly if he meant it to mean that they will automatically choose that religion as adults, then yes, he's wrong. I raised my children in my church. I also raised them to think for themselves. They do not attend any church at the moment.

My parents are Atheists, I am Christian, two of my kids are Atheists. All of that to say, we all make our own choices regardless of how we were raised.

yes i be live so i raised boys alone and i let them choose im wiccan 2 be live in one god the other too don't have a choice i let them ch ooze 4 them self

yeah my parents arent religious, but when i discovered Jesus and went to bible school full time they still supported me and said they respected my choices in life. I got to choose for myself