[Christmas Dynamo]

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The boy and girl can currently be seen next to the slogan "Don't Label Me" on adverts funded by the British Humanist Association (BHA) and endorsed by Prof Richard Dawkins, the scientist and prominent atheist.

The posters form part of a campaign urging parents not to define their children by their own faith, which some secularists claim amounts to an abuse of their human rights.

But the campaign appears to have backfired after a Christian community leader said that the models pictured in the poster were from a family of committed Christians whose images had been taken from a stock photo.

"Here they are promoting atheism and the two children have been brought up in a Christian family," said Gerald Coates, leader of the Pioneer Network of Churches.

"They've been brought up in the Pioneer Network which I founded 20 or 30 years ago. And they're a fantastic family and he [the father] just Facebooked me this morning to tell me."

A spokeswoman for the BHA admitted that the images had been taken from a photo website, and said it was unaware of the religious beliefs of the young models.

"The message of the posters is that the labelling of children by their parents' religion is not respectful of the rights of the child – we are not suggesting that children would be happier brought up in a humanist environment," she said.

The adverts, which are a follow-up to the atheist adverts that appeared on London buses earlier this year, appear in Cardiff, Edinburgh, Belfast and London.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...hristians.html