I'm religious and my young children are believers - and yet we're all quite 'cynical.' Properly understood, doubt is a component of faith in our religion. What

I'm religious and my young children are believers - and yet we're all quite 'cynical.' Properly understood, doubt is a component of faith in our religion. What I see lacking in children's (religious and non-religious alike) are the squashing of curiosity and questioning: Some of my children's friends have school curriculum that reads more like propaganda than facts and reasoning. And woe be the child that contradicts the local public-school teacher. If this effect in the article was only contained to the religious, I'd be quite surprised, as the way some topics in some school are covered include a lot of hand-waving and rote acceptance.