(April 25, 2011 at 12:52 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote:Yes, it would be all over the place. The parents would be getting death threats, lose their jobs, all atheists would be lumped into this incident, have family disown them, etc..etc..(April 23, 2011 at 11:25 pm)reverendjeremiah Wrote: If they made him sign a contract forcing him to be an atheist, when he REALLY wanted to worship Christ Jesus..methinks you would be singing a completely different tune to the one you are singing right now.
And the thing is that if this were the case, this story would be all over the news media (especially Fox News) and everyone would talk about how horrible the atheist parents are by forcing their kid to not go to church. But as it is, nobody gives a shit when Christian parents force their kids to go to church against their will.
..and I would be oppsed to ANY atheist doing such a thing to their child.
So who is more open minded in this situation? People like me and Thomas who disaprove of it happening on either front, or the fundies on this board who are making excuses for the parents?
The closest thing to an excuse I gave to the parents is at first I thought they were doing it to give their son a push out of the door, so that he would not be so comfortable. Didnt mean I agreed with it. Then it turns out that after viewing more info on the situation I dropped that alltogether in favor that they are, indeed, trying to control their sons life from the proof of them going to his workplace to enforce it.
