1969: Children Talking About RELIGION | Children Talking | Voice of the People | BBC Archive

"I like going to church, but it's the sermons I don't particularly like - they go rambling on in such a boring way."
Children from the village of Dibden Purlieu in Hampshire share their opinions on religion with Harold Williamson.
Does God exist? What does heaven look like?
This clip is from Children Talking: On Religion, originally broadcast 25 May, 1969.
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[@Charlotte66666]

The two little ones talking about Noah and The Ark are so sweet.

[@TinLeadHammer]

But why there are two of each animal? They flunked this question.

[@jacqueline8559]

​​@@TinLeadHammer Well, you've failed this simple question too. Use your brain Ffs. WHY do you think? 🤔 Two of each Animal, ( 1 male and 1 female, Oooh! ) So they could be released, after the flood, to procreate ( have babies, for your understanding 🥺) So no type of animal would be extinct. Have you 'got it' now.? ...😏🥺🙄

[@nizaru100]

@@TinLeadHammer Male & Female

[@ldavid2528]

Can someone please please recreate this, with the exact same questions, and same aged children? It would be so interesting to see the contrasts between now and then.

[@lordwilksy]

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[@hilaryepstein6013]

An absolutely delightful film. The intellect of some of these children was pretty impressive. They'll all be in their 60s now and I'd love to know what happened to them.

[@TinLeadHammer]

Yes, the two of them who did not believe in god had brains.

[@pauldurdan1549]

It shows how most of the people in todays society have been dumbed down through lack of discipline and education .

[@Ellie-vv5tw]

@@pauldurdan1549exactly

[@rosemerrynmcmillan1611]

Probably dealing with modern problems such as drug addicted or gay children or grandchildren who've never grown up, grandchildren or children they can't have access to, God knows how their lives have turned out the way society has been spiralling downwards in degeneracy.

[@OlafProt]

@@rosemerrynmcmillan1611 so if your children or grandchildren were gay would you scorn them? Throw them out?

[@thecookreporting]

These kids seems more coherent than most modern adults.

[@helenabarnett6441]

So true. A world before the introduction of the word "like" 😂

[@nizaru100]

Sir, you are from that era too aren't you ! Aah, the Welfare State Era ! ,,, The Nurses uniform, the Milkman, etc,,,,,,,,

[@nizaru100]

@@helenabarnett6441 Madame, , wasn't the word " like" currently used back then ? I was minus 15 years old !

[@HelloImNik]

@@helenabarnett6441 like

[@lexie5973]

You're right. Kids today can't string a coherent sentence together.

[@lightningbug276]

They are so eloquent!

[@rareblues78daddy]

Their parents stared death in the face, and defeated it out of sheer will. Then... they raised these kids. We need to do better.

[@theendofeverything6356]

These children are so well-dressed, polite, thoughtful and articulate. England has changed beyond recognition!

[@Charlotte66666]

Sadly yes.

[@RedDevil_Joe]

OR…these are just pretty posh kids. More middle class than working class anyway

[@theendofeverything6356]

@@RedDevil_Joe What's that got to do with anything?

[@precumming]

Blame Thatcher, kids used to be nice but after making it clear they weren't valued through the Thatcher era now we have violent theiving kids and it seems to be an issue that's going to persist

[@theendofeverything6356]

@@precumming Nice try!

[@MARKETMAN6789]

This brings back so many memories of those times ,when life was worth living ,just wish i had appreciated it more

[@juliemullen365]

Beautifully spoken ❤

[@nizaru100]

Princess DIANA for Ever: Modesty, Reservation ! In the Other Hand : American pseudo-girls like those on KZbin CHANNEL ''REACT'', Well........ I prefer To keeeeep silent !

[@patriciaoreilly8907]

The first boy 😂😂😂😂 how our standards have fallen to the dregs . Beautiful video 😊

[@mikieanthony777]

What beautiful, intelligent children. (Including the 2 atheists)

[@mikieanthony777]

@@seaside_rambler , you fairies R too funny

[@nathalieandparis]

Wow! Just incredible how our society has declined so rapidly. These children are brilliant. So eloquent and intelligent. Just beautiful.

[@lauraclarke3938]

Wonderful children- kids these days don’t seem as eloquent at all…😢

[@lordwilksy]

much better times..

[@user-yt8js4gx6p]

I was born in 1957 so I was about the same age as those kids in 69 I just took every thing as the truth that an adult told me wow how things changed when I could have a mind of my own

[@hazy33]

It's so sad that kids back then had that constant indoctrination. Thankfully church attendance continues to plummet. You have the Catholic Church somehow still allowed to exist despite being a home for rampant paedophilia

[@carlkamuti]

Respect to the boy and girl sat on the grass: I think its hard for us to appreciate the level of heresy that atheism was at the time, for people of that age as well. Good for them.

[@Treemeadow]

Yes, exactly! I couldn't even question things in the 90s, their parents are obviously atheists themselves

[@Behyelzebub]

@carlkamuti, there wasn't much atheism about then, because we didn't have Google. Now we can do a bit of research and find that religion is bullshit.

[@asbisi]

Such intelligent kids.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

😮 There's nothing wrong with atheism. The children who don't believe in Heaven are forward thinking and adorable in their confidence to speak out against the usual indoctrination of religious persons. I would say their parents are wise and supportive thinkers who encourage their offspring to also think for themselves. Great children to be so capable of independent thought so many years ago, before Brits started really to shed their previous dependence upon religious contro via 'brainwashing'!!❤🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿😏🇬🇧🙂❤️🖖

[@andrewjohnson8232]

Free thinkers, nothing to do with what they were being taught...😂 Atheists = Dumb as mud.

[@brijones]

i was the same age back then i never thought about anything

[@johnnyb8825]

My father told me that when he and his brother were children they were "asked to leave" a church because they burst out laughing during the preacher's hellfire and brimstone rant of a sermon (this was in Wales). And that was in the 1930s!

[@ewuraamaetruwaasam7084]

😂

[@bernmahan1162]

Fantastic!

[@jasonayres]

"Rambling on in such a boring way.." As a dad and teacher, I have done some honest soul searching from such honest appraisals, and tried to make adjustments where necessary. Not that I ever told the little rascals!

[@hallelujah88]

Gosh, how are they so well spoken?!

[@jasonayres]

@@hallelujah88 I think that it takes years. Not a "class issue",I believe. Patience and persistence. For example, my dad never finished high school, but was an avid reader.

[@georgio101]

@@hallelujah88 You're putting the horse before the cart. The notion of 'well spoken' is based on the established accent of middle class South East England. It is this cohort of people against whom you subconsciously calibrate your idea of what 'well spoken' sounds like, so they sound well spoken by definition. To adults of the day, there would've been much about their speech which sounds modern and sloppy.

[@nizaru100]

@@georgio101 Princess DIANA for Ever: Modesty, Reservation , Mother Love, spouse Love, Eloquence, ! On the Other Hand : American pseudo-girls like those on KZbin CHANNEL ''REACT'', Well........ I prefer To keeeeep silent !

[@marialamb6781]

WOW! What strikes me the most are the intelligent words that these children use to express themselves. The intelligent way in which they express themselves. They are so young and yet they are talking like adults. Today's children can't talk. It's like you know it's like man what do you think....Well, um you know like ........ positively pathetic and the fault is with the parents. They no longer send their kids out of the house to go play and create games on their own and also have them to sit down and read books.

[@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts]

Children learn to speak by being spoken to. If parents are not listening to their children, actually holding meaningful conversations with them from a young age, they'll learn from their peers. Innit! Reading to children,yes having books for them to read is one thing, but they learn how to pronounce the words,can ask what they mean,they learn the cadence and rhythm of speech by listening. Television should be banned from all children's rooms, and it's evil spawn of smaller screens.

[@HelloImNik]

Wise kids!

[@KrisHughes]

Love the wee mansplainer at 5:00.

[@shadowweaver3693]

I love the interviewers voice

[@firesign4297]

Children🥰Are Absolutely! Amazingly!!! Connected!🤗🙏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿🙏🏿🤗☺️❤️

[@nizaru100]

Princess DIANA for Ever: Modesty, Reservation , Mother Love, spouse Love, Eloquence, ! On the Other Hand : American pseudo-girls like those on KZbin CHANNEL ''REACT'', Well........ I prefer To keeeeep silent !

[@calebrochester9516]

The ability to think and speak clearly is going the way of the dodo bird. You ask for it.

[@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts]

So few people understand the connection between speech and thought. If you cannot express yourself through lack of vocabulary then you also cannot think internally. It's a tragedy right under our noses because these are the children being pumped with experimental drugs to control the resulting behaviour.

[@TheChroniclesOfTheEclipse]

So smart wow 🤩 wow 🤩

[@OlafProt]

My goodness the first child is extraordinarily eloquent. All of them are. Fascinating. 2:45 you go girl!! A coherent and yet completely kind argument. 5:07 religious indoctrination was never so cute.

[@kaygalloway4215]

We were far more articulate in the 60’s. Probably because we were properly educated and life was simple.

[@milkyjoe6917]

The good old days, before kids brains were poisoned by mobile phones and the internet.

[@LuciThomasHardylover-qx6ts]

And lazy parents!

[@russellford5597]

Smart kids @1:31.

[@hellie_el]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@jkq665]

3rd girl. mislead them and feel sad for them amazing ☺️☺️☺️

[@ChubbyChecker182]

The boy and girl arguing abiut who is right about the bible story.... 😁😁

[@frederiquecouture3924]

I believe. 2024.

[@raycarter4030]

Remember when our wonderful land was like this.

[@TheUltimateBlooper]

Like what, exactly? Delusional about some dude in the sky because they didn't know any better? Or the fact that these OBVIOUSLY posh kids on TV make you think that the entire nation was somehow posh? Maybe the normalised domestic abuse that nobody talked about? How women were treated as half a man? Please explain, because those times were not, in fact, "wonderful", not if you were a woman or working class, anyway.

[@moominmay]

@@TheUltimateBlooper👏👏 usually these kind of comments on such videos are a covert way of triggering racist comments on how foreigners have ruined our once perfect, equitable and crime free land…

[@agemoth]

@@TheUltimateBlooper God is everywhere and very much alive. He's more alive than you are !

[@nizaru100]

@@TheUltimateBlooper But what about "The Welfare State" Model back then ! Housing & Health care were affordable for poor people too, or wasn't it the case ! I was minus 15 years old back then !

[@TheUltimateBlooper]

@@agemoth ye ye, she's more alive than I am, the Earth is not as round as we remember, the planes spew disease, 5G is satanist, etc, etc, etc... 😂 What number do I call "god" on, by the way? I'd like to complain aboit her being an insult to human intelligence 👍

[@kevinturvey8213]

what on earth did they put in the water in those days???

[@pathopewell1814]

Not sure about the water but plenty of food, additive free. Not too many treats.

[@user-kr7pf5vz7x]

God Bless those young believers!

[@Callisto74]

Children today, generally speaking, don’t articulate.

[@cocobunitacobuni8738]

Ah...rational humans. I wish I was this intelligent at their age. Indoctrination is powerful I guess (I was a child of Apartheid).

[@hm9181]

“Fiction stories that have become popular” . She is so smart 🤯🥹

[@mikieanthony777]

Stay in school and you'll be a smart girl too. 🚸 📙

[@fidelcatsro6948]

03:30 Girl was amazing! She held steadfast to God!

[@northernsnow6982]

Really!?! The only argument she could come up with, to support there being a god, was everyone else is being mislead. She constantly repeated the same thing, that was repeatedly told to her. No thoughts of her own, just a parrot being frightened by the lazy adults, that are supposed to be responsible for bringing up this child. Instead the parents repeat the same things, that don't make sense to themselves, yet pound the idea into their kids anyways. The girl before her, was intelligent well spoken, and had actual real answers for the questions given. These answers supported her ideas. She even understood that science was already disproving, the mockary that is religion. I wonder who is really being mislead? The sensible sounding girl, with facts to back up her statements, or the girl who can only say, everyone else who thinks for themselves is wrong, because they don't blindly follow a religion. A religion that misinterpreted a book of fables and laws, from ancient irrelevant times. Don't take this as an invitation for you to start preaching to me. I know the words in the Bible better than most. The scripture most Christians fail to know is Romans 15 : 20, where it says, don't preach where the name of Jesus is already known, as to not build on other foundations. So without preaching to me, please explain how your minority god is real. Or are you going to be a proper Christian, and just turn the other cheek, like you're supposed to? Don't forget not to judge me. Because if you do, I'll never forgive you, and that means god will never forgive you either.

[@northernsnow6982]

Look around 5:30, to see what religion really does to the world. And I assume these two kids are of the same religion. They are definitely both Christian.

[@london-vlog2981]

God existed billions of years! Max we each one of will exist only 120 years. So its not right to reject God.

[@northernsnow6982]

@@london-vlog2981 how old is the earth?

[@TheUltimateBlooper]

@@london-vlog2981 errr...no... "god" existed for only as long as the human psyche conjured one, to control the stupid people (whether out of need for obedience or for profit).. "god" is no more real than Pinocchio or Mickey Mouse - they're all just stories. I think you missed the memo when you skipped all the science classes?

[@MyNameIsSimon88]

Good example of kids being indoctrinated here, a couple of them have some sense especially the one who states "they are just popular stories in an important book" she sees through the falsehoods.

[@agemoth]

So you can't imagine that kids are not indoctrinated by OTHER 'words in a book' in their schools to tell them we all started off as slime from the ocean or gibbering apes ? It's the 'education system' that has ruined the kids.

[@HelloImNik]

from what I've seen, this was the opposite of indoctrination?

[@MyNameIsSimon88]

@@HelloImNik kids being told a false story is true feels a bit like it is.

[@squidjit83]

@@MyNameIsSimon88The Bible is not false.

[@MyNameIsSimon88]

@@squidjit83 it is, it’s a bunch of man made stories selected by a council to be included on the book.

[@ChaimkeProductions]

britain today - micah richards/ksi with their `innit bruv` alex scott with her runnin` and rowin` and claims that she doesnt pronounce her g`s because of her working class upbringing! the just stop oil, the woke mob, the lets teach our kids about drag, what has happened to this country

[@hazy33]

Sounds more like what has happened to YOU. And what do you mean by "woke" anyway?

[@syedalamgir5838]

Heaven and Hell ........ ❤

[@victorray2011]

Even primary school kids thought Genesis was nonsense, yet so many Americans take it literally.

[@Treemeadow]

Even the majority of Jewish scholars don't believe it was literal, but figurative to allow for memorisation and secrecy/to protect from outside influence

[@superduper184]

Boringggggggggggggggggggggggggggg

[@edmundpower1250]

Describing yourself again !😅

[@nickfoleie2074]

Just as immature as you can be. If you didn't like it you could have just stopped watching. Literally nothing else on YT

[@carlpierce2486]

Love the atheists....the 'mislead' girl probably ended up going off the rails once she realised she had been too !

[@paulinedixon3490]

The two unbelievers were spot on imo. Typical BBC. Speaking to well to do kids. Not council estate ordinary kids who had underprivileged lives

[@baloodarling486]

This is so obviously scripted.

[@northernsnow6982]

Rehearsed probably, scripted no. Your just not as intelligent as these kids.

[@TheUltimateBlooper]

Doesn't stop all the boomers from salivating over "the good times" 🤣

[@northernsnow6982]

@@TheUltimateBlooper doesn't stop you, from making an unrelated comment. Plus, you're wrong. Most old people would be appalled at the disrespect of god, by some of these kids. When in reality the kids are thinking logically.

[@TheUltimateBlooper]

@@northernsnow6982 I don't think you took the time to read the comments, if you think the boomers are "appalled" here...

[@thecookreporting]

@@TheUltimateBlooper Go drink some Prime

[@lizlawrence4553]

Children speaking proper English to a high standard. Just shows how sub standard state education is today. With teachers who can't teach properly and have the nerve to ask for a pay rise .

[@selfraisingsugar898]

What makes you think teachers can’t teach properly? Have you any examples?

[@tmarritt]

Perhaps you might get better teachers if you pay them correctly. Pay peanuts and all that.

[@heatherives8646]

​@@selfraisingsugar898 some teachers can teach. When i was at school when you hear a teacher, say this lessons are so boring.

[@rareblues78daddy]

...truth, from the mouth of babes. Bastardization of Psalms 8:2. Bet they never thought it'd come back to bite 'em.