First, thanks all for your thought on the subject.
I'll now try to answer the interrogation you raised before continuing any farther.
First one was: In wich environnement do i live?
I live in Québec, in a town that was rural only a few years ago but where proximity to Montreal is speeding up urbanisation really bad. Familly is more or less religious, they are beliver but not assidious practicionner.
But fact is that, even if a live in a mostly laic place, most people are somewhat endoctrinated to the trapping of catholicism. Most people i know would clearly said that they don't believe in god, but you can always find them in a church once in a while, for a birth, marriage or funeral. That is where my opinion get considered ''extreme'', because i think it is a blasphemy to MY ''faith'' to go there. People just don't seem to get the fact that the absence of godly belief don't mean that i don't care about spiritual or religious matter, as i always say i consider my atheism as a religion in and on itself, and it hurt me that people just can't seem to respect that way of thinking.
How old are the kids?
EvidenceVSfaith was right, a daughter of 4 years old (birthday tommorow in fact!!!) and a son of 19 month.
But on this side, i think that i'm winning the game, my daughter compared Jesus to Shreck yesterday, I mean that she said that they were both caracters in a fabricated, untrue story... All by herself, made me quite proud!!!
They biggest problems lies with the fact that even if i state out and loud that i don't want my children to hear about religion, it is a next to impossible goal to achieve.
On another hand, i disussed the going to church problem with my girlfriend, who is a believer but not a catholic. She understood my point a little, but don't want to offend familly by refusing to let the children go... Well, that's one step in the right direction... I don't want to endoctrinate my children into atheism either, that would be as bad as anything else, just want to keep them from knowing thing as long as they can't understant them.
All this is quite fresh, and my thought are on it are not really strucured at this moment, so hope that my post are a little bit more structured than my thought!!!
Now that i know that i'm not alone... I think i will stand to my opinion and finally be the firm atheist i've always wanted to be... LOL!!!
I'll now try to answer the interrogation you raised before continuing any farther.
First one was: In wich environnement do i live?
I live in Québec, in a town that was rural only a few years ago but where proximity to Montreal is speeding up urbanisation really bad. Familly is more or less religious, they are beliver but not assidious practicionner.
But fact is that, even if a live in a mostly laic place, most people are somewhat endoctrinated to the trapping of catholicism. Most people i know would clearly said that they don't believe in god, but you can always find them in a church once in a while, for a birth, marriage or funeral. That is where my opinion get considered ''extreme'', because i think it is a blasphemy to MY ''faith'' to go there. People just don't seem to get the fact that the absence of godly belief don't mean that i don't care about spiritual or religious matter, as i always say i consider my atheism as a religion in and on itself, and it hurt me that people just can't seem to respect that way of thinking.
How old are the kids?
EvidenceVSfaith was right, a daughter of 4 years old (birthday tommorow in fact!!!) and a son of 19 month.
But on this side, i think that i'm winning the game, my daughter compared Jesus to Shreck yesterday, I mean that she said that they were both caracters in a fabricated, untrue story... All by herself, made me quite proud!!!
They biggest problems lies with the fact that even if i state out and loud that i don't want my children to hear about religion, it is a next to impossible goal to achieve.
On another hand, i disussed the going to church problem with my girlfriend, who is a believer but not a catholic. She understood my point a little, but don't want to offend familly by refusing to let the children go... Well, that's one step in the right direction... I don't want to endoctrinate my children into atheism either, that would be as bad as anything else, just want to keep them from knowing thing as long as they can't understant them.
All this is quite fresh, and my thought are on it are not really strucured at this moment, so hope that my post are a little bit more structured than my thought!!!
Now that i know that i'm not alone... I think i will stand to my opinion and finally be the firm atheist i've always wanted to be... LOL!!!
