Is raising kids Christian indoctrination? Hannah Timson and Tim Alford

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🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Richard Dawkins once said that bringing up children in a particular faith is tantamount to child abuse. We invited humanist Hannah Timson and Christian Tim Alford to discuss this issue. You can find Tim Alford on Twitter and Instagram at @RevTimAlford. Hannah Timson is on Twitter and Instagram at @timmi12345. For more on Limitless, you can connect via social media at @LimitlessElim or through their website is www.limitlesselim.co.uk For more on humanism, visit https://humanism.org.uk/ and the specific student section: https://humanism.org.uk/students/ Hannah also recommends Faith to Faithless, which specifically supports people who leave religion to get back on their feet and find community and purpose: https://www.faithtofaithless.com/ USA listeners, check out our new USA website for exclusive resources: www.unbelievable.show Subscribe to our newsletter and receive the free Unbelievable? e-book ‘In Conversation With…’https://www.premier.org.uk/Unbelievablenewsletter Support the show and receive all the videos sessions from Unbelievable? USA 2019 https://resources.premier.org.uk/supportunbelievable For more faith debates visit http://www.premierchristianradio.com/Shows/Saturday/Unbelievable Facebook https://www.facebook.com/UnbelievableJB Twitter https://twitter.com/unbelievablejb https://twitter.com/ruthjjackson Insta https://www.instagram.com/justin.brierley https://www.instagram.com/ruthjjackson

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome along to this week's edition of Unbelievably with me, Justin Briley,
0:04.5	but really presented this week by Ruth Jackson. Hello Ruth.
0:07.6	Hello.
0:09.0	Very exciting that you are taking the wheel of this week's unbelievable show.
0:13.4	I am. I am. I must admit, I feel a little bit like a naughty school child
0:17.4	sort of taking over while the teacher's away.
0:20.8	We'll see what happens.
0:22.5	No, tell us what's coming up on this week's edition of the show.
0:25.5	Yeah, so we've got a really exciting edition.
0:27.6	So we've got Tim Alfred, who is a Christian youth worker and father and Hannah
0:32.4	Timpson, who is a humanist studying sociology.
0:35.8	And they're going to be discussing the question of whether raising your kids
0:39.6	Christian is indoctrination.
0:41.9	So lots of interesting things to say they disagree quite strongly on that, as you can imagine.
0:47.0	And yeah, it gets quite feisty, but in a very gracious way.
0:50.9	Well, I've had a chance to have a quick listen.
0:52.8	And yeah, it does get feisty.
0:54.7	And there's lots of things that are raised during the course of it on the old testament
0:59.3	and whether Jesus exists, which never to be Tim didn't necessarily have time to respond
1:03.9	to.
1:04.9	But we've got lots of shows in the back catalog for anyone who wants to hear some good
1:08.0	discussions on those issues, lots to go and avail yourself of.
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