"GodBlock is a web filter that blocks religious content. It is targeted at parents and schools who wish to protect their kids from the often violent, sexual, and psychologically harmful material in many holy texts."

silverdrake3 · 1 year

and from being indoctrinated into any religion before they are of the age to make such decisions.

Anyone hoping to raise more open-minded children through the use of censorship is deluding themselves. They should be talking to their children about what they find on Internet, not lazily keeping them from anything they deem "inappropriate" or "awkward to talk about".

jck · 1 year

using censorship to make your kids open-minded is like beating them up to make sure they wont become violent.

doctorsound · 1 year

Irony, you are a sweet mistress.

LAPHOQUE · 1 year

This is bad. Kids will find exactly what you don't want them to. And if you've already forbidden it they pry won't talk to you about it. Just let them get suckered into going to bible study for a year because they offered cup cakes for bible verses. When they couldn't tell me where God came from I knew there was no point because if you don't know where God came from then you don't know where we came from. So I started scrounging for change to buy pop rocks. At least that's how it worked in my day.

hsfrey · 1 year

It is impossible to understand Western society without understanding the Christian mythology and its effects. A child insulated from such knowledge would be severely hampered intellectually.

Skynt · 1 year

This is a TERRIBLE idea. The only way I learned about how illogical religious ideas were as a child was having access to EVERYTHING, including Genesis and the rest of the Bible. Freedom of information is what allows one to determine for themselves the truth of such matters.

bushwakko · 1 year

I'd buy my kid a bible and tell him, "lots of people think this book is somehow true". If he read it with that in mind, i'm sure he wouldn't come to that conclusion :P

dwm1129 · 1 year

I want my kids to read and know about religions, they are smart enough to see they are illogical. I want them to have FREETHOUGHT. Why an atheist would want to ban their kids from reading the Bible is beyond me. The Bible is an atheists best defense against Christianity.

[deleted] · 1 year

Too bad it's a parody. I wouldn't use this for my kid, I'd use it for me. Just like I filter out ads. I only wish the stupidfilter project was ready.

frogmeat · 1 year

I'm glad it's a parody (I might want to buy a T-shirt, though!).

After all, it would block any site dealing with religion, including American Atheists, the FFRF, content on /r/freethought . . .

Up2Eleven · 1 year

While I find this amusing and interesting, in the end I could never use it. If you can't explain with facts why all that stuff is crap, then what good are you as an atheist or as a parent?

[deleted] · 1 year

Unfortunately, it is a hoax. It "is not ready yet", but certainly wants your money.

defproc · 1 year

The other week I was trying to explain to someone how much racism still exists in what she believes is a more universally-enlightened time. I jumped onto Youtube to show her "Coon Town" by "Johnny Rebel" but I couldn't find it despite having found it there before. Presumably it had been censored. I wasn't able to show her that reality of the world. Because of censorship, she has no idea how racist and, well, retarded some people still are and the ideas conveyed in "Coon Town" are going to be critically discussed less. Yes it is related.

commonslip · 1 year

This is utterly retardo.

dangwhatno · 1 year

athiesm and free thought aren't the same thing. "I'm right and everybody else is wrong" is as ignorant and unbecoming on you as it is on any religious zealot. if your kids are too young to be exposed to the kind of objectionable content you see in the bible, they're probably too young to be surfing the internet without you around.

if you had a better undertanding of the bible, you could talk to them about it. It never had to be true. It's fables and parables. It's the mouse pulling the thorn out of the lions foot. It's the tortoise and the hare. You shouldn't read them the damn book of revelations but if you don't fight your own ignorance and prejudice then there's no way you can fight it in your children. Raise them to be rational, questioning beings and you won't have to worry about them getting sucked into a gaping pit of lies and deceit while you're not around.

Besides, if you could find me one child under 13 years of age who could comprehend the text of the bible, let alone be interested in it, i'd take back my downvote.

nocheckers · 1 year

You should post this in r/atheism.

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