Humanist Shmumanist

Have just read about the new 'campaign' from the Humanists...
Billboards with pictures of little kids saying 'please don't label me, let me grow up and choose for myself'.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah. How silly. What they seem to be saying is that everyone should start with a 'I don't believe in anything to do with God' and go from there. What a hypocritical (and in my slightly ranty view, stupid) thing to say. Surely that's just saying, "humanists are right, the rest of you are wrong, so teach kids what we believe and if they want to believe something else when they grow up, so be it." How's that any different from a Christian saying "I'm right, you're wrong, my kids going to be brought up as a Christian because that's the truth". The only difference is that the truth is the Truth! Humanists are just saying they don't want kids (that's ALL kids, not just theirs) to believe in anything other than what Humanists believe...

(Quote from British Humanist Association) "Labelling children as if they innately "belong" to a particular religion ... can only serve as an obstacle to understanding between children around the world." What?! Rubbish. Failing to teach them about others' beliefs might serve as an obstacle to understanding. Or teaching them to ridicule (and I mean ridicule, I don't mean disagree with or argue against) others' beliefs might have the same effect. But teaching them properly about religion, particularly the religion to which they belong, can only serve to improve understanding.

I don't want my son to 'innately belong' (their words) to a religion. I want him to be a Christian by his own choosing. But that doesn't mean I'm going to wait until he's 18 before I start teaching him about it. How absurd. Why on earth would I stop teaching my child the truth just because someone else says it's not true. Bizarre. Is it just me or is this campaign really odd...?

And at this time of year, I'm going to have to mention Santa (warning - spoiler!!!)
I'm assuming that Humanists would avoid any reference to Santa/Father Christmas, because he's not true. If any humanists read this (which I doubt, given that my 'followers' list is only half way to double figures...) I'd love to know your views on this. Because surely if you don't want kids to believe in Jesus, you certainly wouldn't want them believing in Santa... After all, the evidence for Jesus is solid, the evidence for Santa is somewhat shaky...

I have to apologise for the fact that this is a rant. But the campaign is so ridiculous I'm struggling to muster up enough energy to question it particularly logically. Feel free to comment. I'm aware that some things I haven't really explained very well...

Check out the wreath by the way. I've only have a 20% response rate to it.

Do Humanists celebrate Christmas? Surely not... They're missing out.