(December 13, 2015 at 7:01 pm)Whateverist the White Wrote:(December 13, 2015 at 6:37 pm)Quantum Wrote: Yes there is a reason.
I won't do that for example. I will not teach my daughter that there is no god. I will tell her that I sincerely believe that there is no god, but I will try to avoid telling her that as a truth behind which I put my authority as a parent, because her thinking about it freely is a higher good than her adopting my point of view on the matter.
That is still pretty different. For most of us atheism is not a positive belief, nothing we're greatly invested in. So intrinsically it isn't anything we would want to emphasize in child rearing anyhow. For the theist, they believe it as something extremely important even central to who they are. That we would not coerce disbelief doesn't really make us more noble. Apples and oranges.
Actually I believe the fact that we don't have any definite belief systems makes us even greater parents all the same. If I had any kids I would be teaching them science and philosophy at the same age religious folks would biblicize theirs.
