What To Do (and What Not To Do) If Someone Threatens Your Kid with Hell

This is a guest post written by David G. McAfee. He is author, most recently, of The Belief Book.

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Suppose you’re a non-believer and someone tells your child that he will go to Hell for not believing a certain thing or because he’s not baptized. What do you do?

Whether it’s at school, or with friends, or at a religious event of some kind, if you know children who aren’t being raised (some may say indoctrinated) with a particular religion, this situation is bound to arise.

That’s partly because t...