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Have we asked theists what they'd do if their kids turned out like us?

Poll: If the teenaged child you'd raised to hold the same religious views as yourself came to you and said they no longer shared those beliefs, how would you handle it?
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C'est la vie; win some, lose some.
3.57%
 1 3.57%
I'd respect their choice whether or not to attend customary religious activities or the atheist equivalent. (Is there one? Skepticism day camp?)
25.00%
 7 25.00%
I'd try my best to understand what had changed in their thinking and to understand their new beliefs.
28.57%
 8 28.57%
I would do my best to reason with them to dissuade them from leaving the beliefs they were raised in.
14.29%
 4 14.29%
While they are my dependents I'd still expect them to participate in the culture of the family, including religiously themed activities or their skepticism themed alternative - if there is one.
10.71%
 3 10.71%
I would not accept their decision and forbid them to speak of it.
0%
 0 0%
I would throw them out of the house and have nothing more to do with them.
3.57%
 1 3.57%
If their beliefs did not change by the time they were independent, I would likely have less to do with them than I would otherwise.
0%
 0 0%
I would end them. If God/reason can't have them, neither will Satan/a cult.
0%
 0 0%
Fuck all polls in the ass .. yada, yada, yada.
14.29%
 4 14.29%
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Have we asked theists what they'd do if their kids turned out like us?
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RE: Have we asked theists what they'd do if their kids turned out like us?
December 6, 2016 at 6:31 pm
(December 5, 2016 at 5:26 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I would force them to repent and then burn them to death to ensure them a place in Heaven before they changed their minds again.

Hey, if they're young enough you don't even have to make them repent-- just fire up the grill! You could save their souls and feed some hungry atheists at the same time.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

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Have we asked theists what they'd do if their kids turned out like us?

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RE: Have we asked theists what they'd do if their kids turned out like us? - by Tonus - December 6, 2016 at 6:31 pm

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