The Atheist Kid's Bible
Offline This is a plug, but a relevant one. (Moderator, please strike me down if I'm totally out of order!).
Some time ago I wrote a book for my kids, What I'll Tell Tom - now subtitled the Atheist Kid's Bible. I quite liked the Bible as a kid, but didn't believe all the God stuff. I wanted my kids to have a book that told them where we came from and threw in a bit of moral philosophy too. In the book I also briefly describe the major world faiths and tell them it's fun to debate with others who have different views - as this forum demonstrates 
I'm interested in how others encourage their kids to interact with those with different beliefs - do any atheist parents out there send their kids to religious schools or youth groups? Do any religious parents encourage their kids to enter the atheist vs theist debates?
Here's a link to a fledgeling blog and details of the book if you're interested... telltom.wordpress.com/
Cheers,
BH
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there are no reviews and I cannot open the book to see a bit of it. Is there plans for that?
Religion Kills !!!
Numbers 31:17-18 - Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.
http://jesus-needs-money.blogspot.com/
Good point!
There's a small preview on Amazon here... http://www.amazon.com/What-ILl-Tell-Tom-Atheist/dp/1470970805
However I'll put a larger preview on the blog website this weekend with some of the illustrations included.
Cheers,
Martin
This seems a good idea to me, given a focus on open enquiry and a refusal to be bullied into accepting puerile arguments on the basis of threats of physical violence.
"Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." Max Planck
I've posted an extract of the book on the log. Thanks for the suggestion!
http://telltom.wordpress.com/2012/06/17/34/