I wouldn't teach them there is no god. I would teach my child to look at the world and to ask why. To seek valid answers and to find things out for themselves. I would teach my child how to think. Not what to think. And most important, how to think FOR THEM SELF.

Never had kids but had I, and one turned Mormon, Scientologist or JW, it would have been a freaking nightmare.

(and there would be more 'religions' to append, but those for now are the worst)

(December 17, 2014 at 7:53 pm)Kloud Wrote:

(December 17, 2014 at 7:49 pm)Heywood Wrote: Every house has its own beliefs and traditions. You should raise them with the beliefs and traditions that are prevalent in your house.

I know, I'm asking what you would raise them as?

My kids believe in God for now anyways.

Children are already atheists. Without religion being forced upon their defenseless minds, they don't need to know they have already been pre-labeled by society for being born and untainted by psychological religious abuse.

If you don't teach your child religion, you're raising your child as a de facto atheist.

You could do worse.

Boru

I don't have any children, but if I did I would encourage them to decide for themselves. Their decisions would be their own and I would accept their beliefs even if they didn't coincide with my mine own.

It's been said a million times, but I'll say it again. My children will be taught how to think, not what to think.

My children will be thinkers. Annoying everyone with their questions.

I always tell myself I won't say to my daughter "Christianity is wrong!", but we stumbled upon an instance where I had to do just that. We were gaving a discussion about evolution and the way it propagates, and she must have recognized that this is in contention with the Adam and Eve story (she learned from her grandparents). After a long pause, she asked me if Adam and Eve were real, and I straight up told her they were not, and explained how it was impossible.

I kind of laughed and thought to myself, "Well, so much for not telling her Christianity is wrong."

The hard part was wording it in such a way as to save face for the people she respects who believe that sort of thing.

(December 17, 2014 at 8:57 pm)Exian Wrote: I always tell myself I won't say to my daughter "Christianity is wrong!", but we stumbled upon an instance where I had to do just that. We were gaving a discussion about evolution and the way it propagates, and she must have recognized that this is in contention with the Adam and Eve story (she learned from her grandparents). After a long pause, she asked me if Adam and Eve were real, and I straight up told her they were not, and explained how it was impossible.

I kind of laughed and thought to myself, "Well, so much for not telling her Christianity is wrong."

The hard part was wording it in such a way as to save face for the people she respects who believe that sort of thing.

That would be the problem with questions huh? We ended up there pretty fast. The other early kid question was, "who made god?"