Happy Father's Day to fellow nonreligious fathers, and a question for you. Did you or are you raising you children to be atheist?

I did not pressure my son, who I raised from age 2 after getting divorced, to not believe. When he was about 8 years old my Mother asked if he could go to church with her. I let him decide. He went and continued, even being baptised when he was 17.

After graduating high school he moved 750 miles south to live near his mother. I did not have any regrets about letting him go to church at such a young age until I read Dawkins' The God Delusion & other atheist books. Suddenly I felt like "Oh no, I screwed up!" But not really. About 8 years ago he called me, & during our talk he said he had read a book he thought I might like. The title was "Godless", the author... Dan Barker of coarse. My son said he started having doubts about his religious beliefs a few years before, and Barker's book helped him out. He is now 38 years old and very much an atheist. Thank you, Dan.