How your secular kids should deal with religious bullying from other kids

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4. Religion itself didn't want me to be religious. It pounded the anti-theism into me from day one.

When I was 6, I asked too many questions in Sunday school -- about Noah's Ark, and how all the babies of the animals would have to marry their brothers and sisters -- and other things. So, I was ejected. My mother was called to come and get me. The teacher sat me out on a big tree stump in front of the church to wait. I heard something, and turned to see all the kids in the Sunday school class clustered at the windows of the school -- looking at me. They weren't really laughing, or jeering, or anything -- just looking with interest. Actually, I suspect that many of them would have loved to join me on that stump.