(September 20, 2011 at 12:57 pm)xxxtobymac Wrote: How as a society can we lie to our children and then turn around and get upset about when the lie to us.Life isn't black and white. What is more important... protecting your kids or telling them the brutal truth? I'd leave it to a mother to make that call. (I'm a bloke, I'd go more with brutal truth, but then I'm not qualified)
(September 20, 2011 at 12:57 pm)xxxtobymac Wrote: they teach creationism in my son's science class. an unproven idea and it's not even science why is it in a science class.They're all theories with varying degrees of substantiation and should be taught as such. Teaching evolution as fact is also harmful.
(September 20, 2011 at 12:57 pm)xxxtobymac Wrote: With being a former theist, I yes lied to my son about the supernaturalHow exactly? Did you go further than telling them what you considered to be the truth, or are you saying that in retrospect you were misguided?
(September 20, 2011 at 12:57 pm)xxxtobymac Wrote: I'm sorry but looking at in now from a free mind that is child abuse at a sick level.I find your attitute now overly dogmatic, which is what I would guess may have been the problem in the first place.
Ideally your example should be one of reasonable questioning of everything... including yourself and your current beliefs... so that your children can see by example how to do it.
