Religion, children, and doing unto others

This article was published in The Conversation 9 July 2012

Hold your hats. Gird your loins. Scrunch up your face like you’ve just witnessed your Dad on the dance floor at a wedding. Ready? Good, because I’m writing about religion. Even worse, this column is about religion…and children. But fear not. For my own sanity (and safety!), this column won’t dip its toe into the pool of ethical and moral arguments attached to the teaching of religion to children. This debate has been covered extensively by polemicists from both sides.