Have we asked theists what they'd do if their kids turned out like us?
December 5, 2016 at 3:55 pm
(This post was last modified: December 5, 2016 at 4:15 pm by Whateverist.)
Oh well, at my age I probably ask a lot of questions more than one. (No snickering.)
So if your teenaged kids (or future kids) were to tell you they just can't believe in God any more and didn't want to go with you to church, how would you respond? Naturally there needs to be poll, but as always feel free to point out any inadequacies in its construction and provide your superior response in a comment. You may choose as many as apply in addition to adding other responses in your comment. And your answers will be public in order to subject us all to any due humiliation before our peers.
Rather than let the atheists off the hook, lets provide appropriately broad enough responses to allow atheists to also say how they'd respond if their teenaged kid decided to join one of your Christian cults denominations.
I might well try to dissuade them from joining the cult too, but it would depend on what they had to say about their process. My own stepson has become quite woo, becoming a priest in a cult involving some Brazilian dude who calls himself "John of God". He was 30 before he went this way but I think our situation was complex. His biological dad was a magnet for woo while his mom and I are not. His mom even more so that I. She gets agitated around anything woo. I just get intrigued to understand how people can believe such things.
Well they sound very healthy to me. You could have had it much worse. I guess your failure to go insane was an instance of their having bred true.
So if your teenaged kids (or future kids) were to tell you they just can't believe in God any more and didn't want to go with you to church, how would you respond? Naturally there needs to be poll, but as always feel free to point out any inadequacies in its construction and provide your superior response in a comment. You may choose as many as apply in addition to adding other responses in your comment. And your answers will be public in order to subject us all to any due humiliation before our peers.
Rather than let the atheists off the hook, lets provide appropriately broad enough responses to allow atheists to also say how they'd respond if their teenaged kid decided to join one of your Christian cults denominations.
I might well try to dissuade them from joining the cult too, but it would depend on what they had to say about their process. My own stepson has become quite woo, becoming a priest in a cult involving some Brazilian dude who calls himself "John of God". He was 30 before he went this way but I think our situation was complex. His biological dad was a magnet for woo while his mom and I are not. His mom even more so that I. She gets agitated around anything woo. I just get intrigued to understand how people can believe such things.
(December 5, 2016 at 3:57 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: My parents were only concerned for the fist 10 years or so. When they figured out I wouldn't go insane, wouldn't become a killer, or more weird than I all ready was, they let it go.
Well they sound very healthy to me. You could have had it much worse. I guess your failure to go insane was an instance of their having bred true.
