Children who front Richard Dawkins' atheist ads are evangelicals -Times Online

The Times can reveal that Charlotte, 8, and Ollie, 7, are from one of the country’s most devout Christian families.

It is irrelevant to the ad. The whole point is that children should NOT be labeled until they are old enough to chose. Therefore these are NOT Christian children...they are children. You can't even label children as atheist, although they might be correctly called that if they have no notion of a god, because they haven't had the chance to think about the subject yet.

The problem with religion is the indoctrination of children. I was baptised at birth and told I was Catholic. Was I Catholic?? Of course not. I had no idea what they were talking about until much later. Then I was confirmed in an Episcopalian church. I had a better idea of what was going on by then (age 12) but I was starting to argue and question what I was being told. I was still pressured into the ceremony. Was I Episcopalian?? Nope. Later I was even pressured into going on a Christian retreat as a last ditch effort to win me over (they treatened to sell the car they were saving for my 16th birthday). It is wrong to push kids to accept the beliefs of their parents.

Do you believe in the God of the Jews and Christians or not? THAT is the test of whether you are a Christian. And THAT decision can be made at any point in your life, just as any moral decision can be. If you wait until a child is old enough to decide for himself that stealing, cheating, lying and killing are wrong and that courage, honesty, charity and compassion are right, it will be too late.