The God Delusion

???Our society, including the non-religious sector, has accepted the preposterous idea that it is normal and right to indoctrinate tiny children in the religion of their parents, and to slap religious labels on them - ‘Catholic child', ‘Protestant child', ‘Jewish child', ‘Muslim child', etc. - although no other comparable labels: no conservative children, no liberal children, no Republican children, no Democrat children. Please, please raise your consciousness about this, and raise the roof whenever you hear it happening. A child is not a Christian child, not a Muslim child, but a child of Christian parents or a child of Muslim parents. This later nomenclature, by the way, would be an excellent pieces of consciousness-raising for the children themselves. A Child who it told she is a ‘child of Muslim parents' will immediately realize that religion is something for her to choose - or reject - when she becomes old enough to do so.???

This quote struck me to the soul.
Religious indoctrination is one of the worst things we could do to a child - inhibiting their inquisitive nature and asking them to abide by some specific “rules” written down years ago and in turn reject / ridicule every other such rules.

A very chilling hint of this is shown in Aldous Huxley's dystopia A Brave New World.

Although my mom and grandmother are both religious, they never forced their faith on me. As a family we often have debates from time to time, questioning everything and it helped in broadening my mindset.

I never understood the argument that atheists cannot appreciate life because they don't understand that God created them and everything for them because God loves them.

But rather its the EXACT opposite.
Atheists appreciate life even more because they know the sheer improbability of it.
The fact that you are alive now and not a billion years from now or a thousand years before.
The fact that among the millions of galaxys, you were a result of a genetic accident that resulted in your birth. Isn't the complexity of this very fact enough to be thankful JUST to be able to witness this complex spec we call earth - for even a second, let alone years.

Its too ambitious for this book to be included in school curriculum, isn't it?