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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?
This poll is closed.
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%
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Fuck all polls in the ass .. yada, yada, yada.
14.29%
 4 14.29%
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RE: Have we asked theists what they'd do if their kids turned out like us?
December 15, 2016 at 6:34 am
(December 6, 2016 at 7:19 pm)Whateverist Wrote:
(December 6, 2016 at 5:03 pm)Drich Wrote: I truth I would simply train my child the way they should go... If they decide to part from that way then, that is on them.


Surprised but not disappointed to learn you'd grant them free will.

I'd be surprised if the bit you quoted of him weren't a lie. And I'm guessing his way of "letting them on their way" is a complete and total shunning of them.
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RE: Have we asked theists what they'd do if their kids turned out like us? - by Pat Mustard - December 15, 2016 at 6:34 am

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