Raising children with religious beliefs violates the idea of religious freedom.

First of all, one must ask themselves "what is religious freedom?" The answer actually lies in the question itself. It is the freedom to question any and all religion freely, regardless of whether or not one has one. Another point to realise is that is largely applies to those over the age of consent in the first place, as does the freedom to drink, smoke, have pre-marital sex and many other responsibilities that have an age which generally varies from 15-21 depending on country.Until this age of a person's life, they (in the society that they exist) are essentially children (ironically an 18 year old who has sex with a 17 year old the day before their 18th birthday is an official pedophile). In the same way, until this age the right to true freedom of religion isn't valid. Whilst there are laws, in many nations, preventing and restricting the extent of punishment and abuse a child can receive for breaking family values, within these restrictions one can indeed deliver punishment so unjust to any atheist. Nonetheless, these extremist people are the problem themselves, they are not simply raising their children with religion but instead raising them with fear and abuse, which is wrong even for an atheist parent to commit. Thus, the nature of upbringing and the fact that it is religious are clearly two completely separated matters, don't forget that by abusing one's child there is a clear violation of the very principle of all religions; morality. There is clear immorality in beating one's child and if one is too delusional to see this then they are no better than the suicide bombers of London who squealed "Allah!" while acting against the very book supposed to be his word, whereby it is clearly stated that suicide, as well as murder, are sins and all sins lead to hell.The line of attack that by raising a child with a story of someone such as Santa Claus one is subjecting them to brainwashing is ridiculous. Not ridiculous because it's inherently flawed logically but rather that almost all works of fantasy will remain instilled in a child's mind, whether it's the fairy tales they are read to by their mother as they sleep, or the cartoons that we so willingly let them view on television. Children are sponges to any and all ideas and sources of information and one could just as easily raise a militant anti theist as much as a militant Muslim but this is why it is important to realise that up until the official age of consent (globally considered to be 18) one is not fully ready to 'choose' anything (consent is the full capability of one to choose something).It is thus irrefutable that the freedom of a parent to raise their child with a code of morality, whether by religion or by secular humanism, is inevitably the exact same act theoretically and that both an atheist and a theistic parent can raise their child in an abusive manner, meaning religion clearly is independent of this matter.This leaves one with the final question: Is it right to raise a child with any religion at all? Clearly if one disagrees, they'd be opposing the view of religious freedom and clearly the right to raise a child religion and religious freedom itself indefinitely coincide.