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If you are born in a country with secular values, consider yourself lucky. Pakistan is an Islamic nation by constitution. Around the time of Zia (the west was so enamored with this dictator), the country turned more conservative with hard-line islamists in the military. The excellent physicist Abdus Salam, a Nobel laureate, is shunned by the Pak govt because he is an Ahmadiya, a sect of Islam that is considered Kafir by the Sunni community.
Spongebob
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Dec 28, 2020
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That is horrific anecdotal evidence, but you'd think an AP reporter would know that they had to reference their statistical claims to be credible.
If roughly 4 million babies are born in the US each year and roughly 70% of American households are Christian, then as many as 2.8 million additional children suffer Christian indoctrination annually.
LovinLarge
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Dec 28, 2020
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@Hages I concede that there are some Christian parents that don't indoctrinate their children, although I've never met any myself.
My father had a high profile job so both my parents identified as agnostic, but they didn't believe in God and religion was never mentioned in my household that I can remember except one time when my dad called it "a crutch".
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