RE: Leaving christianity, a bit of my story
July 14, 2016 at 3:39 pm
(This post was last modified: July 14, 2016 at 3:41 pm by Lek.)
(July 14, 2016 at 1:23 am)robvalue Wrote: I really hope for the day when indoctrination stops. I predict religion will then stop having any power very quickly, and will fade into irrelevancy. But if it doesn't, I'll just be glad people are entering into it willingly rather than because they got their mind blasted before the age of reason.
Do you think we should teach our children that christianity is true and then try to encourage them to check out other positions? It may be a good idea because it would demand that anyone who is a christian would need to be able to effectively defend their faith and have tested it out. We should not only teach our kids about the faith, but discuss their opinions and ask and answer questions. Too many kids leave the faith when they go to college or otherwise out on their own because they have never done enough research to be able to defend it. In the days when society supported christianity it might have enough to say "shut up and believe it", but nowadays we're constantly being challenged.
