Commentary: My nonreligious children shouldn't worry Justice Alito

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Plenty of people have concerns about raising children without religion. I know, because I have three kids (two 10-year-olds and a 6-year-old), and they’re about as familiar with the Bible as they are with the Quran, the Bhagavad Gita or Dianetics.

One of those concerned adults is Samuel A. Alito Jr., the Supreme Court justice who wrote the opinion overturning Roe vs. Wade. In a recent talk he gave on religious freedom — noted mostly for his snide remarks against foreign critics of his abortion decision — Alito said this:

"I am reminded of an experience I had a number of years ago in a museum in Berlin. One of the exhibits was a rustic wooden cross. A young, an affluent woman — a well-dressed woman — and a young boy were looking at this exhibit, and the young boy turns to the woman, presumably his mother, and said, 'Who is that man?'

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Alito gave no indication he heard the adult's answer and judging by the fact that he used the anecdote to set up a lecture on threats to religious liberty, I doubt he's interested in it. To him and those upholding Christian primacy in this country (which is waning, quickly), a child asking that question at all unsettles them.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/commentary-my-nonreligious-children-shouldn-t-worry-justice-alito/ar-AA10ncnd

[shrike3]

1. One never knows with one's children, though.

I know a non-religious couple whose child just became an Evangelical Protestant. They're doing their best to accept it. The kid's choice.