Last night I was finishing up a novel by Keith Clemons. He was another author at the show last week and came up to talk to me after hearing my spiel for the ten thousandth time <it's a political thriller about Christian persecution in America>. He writes about the same subject so we traded books.

So anyway, I was reading along and came across a quote that sounded, from context, like it was a real incident. Sure enough, I did a little googling and found it:

"How much do we regard children as being the property of their parents?," Dawkins asks. "It's one thing to say people should be free to believe whatever they like, but should they be free to impose their beliefs on their children? Is there something to be said for society to be stepping in? What about bringing up children to believe manifest falsehoods?"

I'd never read that quote before, but gosh it sounds a lot like some of the justification given in my book for beginning to remove children from the 'hostile' and 'intolerant' homes of Christian parents. It also reminds me of an outcry a few months ago over the Mickey Mouse-like TV character teaching Palestinian children to hate and kill the Jews. There was some discussion about whether or not children should be removed from that kind of environment.