Atheists & Agnostics

to their children. Even if you were to make it "illegal", this would be done behind closed doors. It actually has been done in the past with Jews who were so persecuted that they "converted" to Catholicism to survive, but still kept the Jewish traditions alive in their homes. In fact, persecution is probably the best way to make people stick closer to their religion.

In the church that I was raised, you were not baptized until you were 13---the age of consent to the church. Other sects, like the Amish, actually do what you are suggesting in spirit.....the children are not members of the church until they reach adulthood and can decide whether they want to stay or not.

But making this a statutory offense would open a can of worms that no one wants to see opened. It would just give the religious more of a cause.