Much better but in Howards case, I think he would add, as a first line, teach kids to have a strong faith.

You can certainly have a different opinion, but Howard is entitled to his without ridicule.

Howard's "faith" includes a central belief that if you don't accept Christ as your saviour, you'll burn in hell for eternity. So that faith/system has built-in contempt and ill-will towards all who don't accept the resurrection.

Now, I don't believe in any of this - so from one angle, it's not relevant. But from their perspective, no matter how much they say they "love" other people, they still accept the notion that they'll burn for eternity.

Adults tried to teach me "faith" when I was a little kid. I didn't believe it. Then a family member, who was a bible school teacher, told me all about hell. I still didn't buy it, but it spooked me for quite a while - not the notion that I'd burn, but that my own flesh and blood believed in it. It felt like a veiled threat.

IMO, the ugliest thing about Christianity isn't the Bible itself - it's those who preach it literally.

There's an old line from a Robert Heinlein book: "The nice thing about citing god as an authority is that you can prove anything you set out to prove."

Kevin