(November 13, 2015 at 9:51 am)robvalue Wrote: Good point about the kids. That's something you can never come back from, and it's full of danger at every turn. I would highly recommend not having kids with a theist unless you're really sure they're not going to indoctrinate them. I can't imagine how horrific it must be to see your own children having their brains rotted.
There's a good chance indoctrination of future kids won't take, at least not permanently. My mother was a fundamentalist, but my father was an atheist. He wasn't militant or even vocal about it. He was just a coolly rational, extremely logical person. He also didn't care for emotional confrontations, so he didn't put up much resistance to my mother's insistence that we kids know the Lord.
Something must have stuck, though. He likely affected me somehow, through quiet influence.
