Kids and Religion

[Yosei]

This is going to be a very touchy subject, but I cannot stress it enough, please, PLEASE, please.. respect others religious views and morals, and if it turns into a flame war, I will just have this closed.
But yes... onto the subject...

Am I the only person who finds exposing kids younger than 12 to religion, wrong? It just doesn't seem right to me. My nephew came home today and my dad does the daily "What did you learn today?" routine, and my nephew said he learned one of the most controversial subjects to enter the schools, the theory of evolution.
Since my dad is an extremely devout Christian, it set him off. He started lecturing my nephew, telling him the theory of evolution is wrong, and that anyone who says its right is stupid. Everything has to have been created by someone, things don't just evolve. He told my nephew if any atheists were to ever come to him and tell them their views on such things, to walk away and to not listen to them, because if he does, he's going to go to hell.
I dare not speak up to him, because he'll start lecturing me, telling me the same stuff, and then it'll tick me off, and I will probably at some point during the lecture, start yelling back at him, and then just get up and walk away, thus pissing him off more. And no one wants to piss my dad off.
About a month ago I watched a special on one of the news shows, forgot which one, I think it was 20/20. It was about this little boy who was preaching Christianity and protesting abortion. The lady interviewing him asked him what abortion was, and he said that his dad had told him it was when a lady kills her baby because she doesn't want to keep it. While, yes, it is kind of that, its not that simple and immoral.

I just think telling kids that at such a young age is wrong. In my opinion, it seems like it would teach intolerance and a closed mind.