The article starts out very well - the author is disturbed (as I was) by Richard Dawkins' contention that teaching children to believe in God is a form of child abuse. Talking about believers and atheists, the article points out that if you believe something to be unequivocally true and belief in it necessary to live a 'good' life, you are morally obliged to pass it along. It then hypothesizes about an extreme case - does that mean a committed Nazi is obliged to bring up his or her children as Nazis?
The answer suggested is - hell no, because Nazism is clearly wrong and its outcomes clearly evil, plus eugenics and the master race are discredited by real science. This is woolly logic at best however, because the latter is true of several belief systems that the author agrees are OK to pass along.
My take? Of course we're obliged to pass on what we believe - yes, even the Nazi! However, we are also obliged to present evidence that runs counter to our own argument, and more importantly we are obliged to change our mind if this evidence discredits our own belief.
