The R-word

Seeing children actively participate in religious activities makes me very uncomfortable. I wish parents, if at all they must influence, would let the child see themselves being religious and let the child choose for herself. To me it seems any child who follows religion because of her parents would follow the same religion irrespective of the religion type. Wouldn't it be wonderful then to have the common factor of all religions, the value system, to be passed on rather than what makes a religion distinct from others, the rites and rituals.