Family devotions = child abuse?

Someone recently opined that Christians in America are only decades away from suffering persecution for their faith. I offer up this book as supporting evidence for that opinion. This, and other aggressive briefs for atheism and attacks on religion, includes the argument that raising children in a religion, instilling beliefs into them before they have the capacity to object, amounts to child abuse.

And we know what must be done in cases of child abuse. The state must step in and remove the child from the home.

Lest you think this is an isolated instance of a kook fringe in America, look to Germany's state pressure on homeschooling families, who, in one recent instance, are fined and have their children removed from their homes and forcibly taken to school, all to "cultivate a homogenous culture" in the country.


Here is an excerpt from Doug Wilson, who is critiquing the book chapter by chapter.

"All law is the imposition of morality, and all law systems are codified moral systems. At the head of each codified moral system is the god of the system. When you have found the source of law, you have found the god of the system. This was the case in Moses' Israel, in Confucian China, in Marxist Russia, and in secularist Manhattan. It would be the case in any societal blueprints drafted entirely by Christopher Hitchens. The systems differ because the gods differ."