(October 31, 2016 at 5:12 pm)Casca Wrote: My wife and I are having our first child soon (she's due last week of December). We fully intend to raise our daughter secular, but I am unsure of how to handle social situations when she gets older: like if her friends are religious, or if she's excluded from social gatherings because of it.
Do you have children, and did you raise them Atheist? Did you run into any obstacles?
If you don't, what would you do? Religion, no religion, or expose them to everything and let them decide?
Unless you live in the 'Bible belt', I'm not sure there is much to worry about.
If her generation is anything like my nephew's generation, things will be fine.
My nephew is 20, and his religious friends could care that he is a nonbeliever. He'd probably get more grief if he told them he doesn't like pizza.
Each new generation is getting less and less religious, overall.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
