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At 20:08 -0500 5/26/05, Brian Whatcott wrote:
QWhile the Jesuit aphorism ma y have some truth to it (recall the
I can't help recall [though doubtless in mangled form] the Jesuit
aphorism to the effect,
"give me a child young enough, and he will be mine for ever"
One could continue in this vein, such as...
A child from a non-religious home background will be more likely to
have a criminal record.
A child exposed only to American public schools is more likely to hold
adverse opinions about religious belief.
....and so on......
adage, "the acorn never falls far from the tree"), the other two are
patently false. Countless surveys have shown that the fraction of
prisoners who are atheists is far below the fraction of atheists
among the general population.
Hugh Haskell