title: Parenting Without God: How to Raise Moral, Ethical and Intelligent Children, Free from Religious Dogma
author:  Dan Arel 
description: "Parenting Without God is not just about the absence of religion--it's about the glorious space that opens up for secular parents and their lucky kids once the clutter and smoke of religion is gone. Dan Arel's voice is clear, smart, and a welcome addition to the growing chorus of parents taking the hands of their children and running at full speed into the real world." - <i>Dale McGowan, author/editor of Parenting Beyond Belief and Raising Freethinkers </i>
zlib_text: Moral Education
  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
  Undated
  [Undated fragment from Ms. 2971, Ville de Besançon]
  I always see the fathers of families, sufficiently enlightened regarding the value of religious
  fables, worry nonetheless about the Education to give their children, and ask on what the moral
  principles that they will be taught will rest.
  Morals and superstition have been so thoroughly mixed together that the majority of men
  do not manage to separate them, and, for them, to destroy the latter it is always a matter of
  compromising the former.
  I am an honest man, says a father, and I know where I stand on the question of the cults. I do
  not need religion to lead me as a man of honor. But my children must be educated, and I know
  what that costs. It disgusts me to preach superstition to them. We must speak to them of morals,
  but on what basis?…
  Voltaire was of that opinion: he dismissed his servants and closed the door when his friends
  debated religion.
  That difficulty, however childish it is