“My father was a Freethinker, but died when I was only three years old. Wishing me to be bought up without superstition he appointed two Freethinkers as my guardians. The Courts, however, set aside his will, and had me educated in the Christian faith. I am afraid the result was disappointing, but that was not the fault of the law. If he had directed that I should be educated as a Christadelphian or a Muggletonion or a Seventh-Day Adventist the Courts would not have dreamt of objecting. A parent has the right to ordain that any imaginable superstition shall be installed into his children after his death, but has not the right to say that they shall be kept free from superstition if possible.”

Bertrand Russell – Let the People Think