RE: Age of Deconversion
November 20, 2019 at 1:40 pm
(This post was last modified: November 20, 2019 at 1:50 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
It doesn't surprise me that people are married to their ideas, and it doesn't surprise me that some subset are more married to their ideas than to their love for their children. I'd even go so far as to say that specific ideas are more competent at producing that outcome than others. It would surprise me, though, to find that this subset is a significant portion of the entire parenting pie. It would sure as hell surprise the preachers and shamans and witchdoctors, too, who rail against our love for our children eroding the fullest expression of our faiths, particularly when that faith isn't shared by our children.
As far as pressure, well..the simple act of a persons parents believing something exerts a pressure whether they intentionally do so or not, so there's that...and I certainly afforded the various things my own parents believed more credibility on account of them believing it. I never would have become so obsessed with mythology and religion if these weren't things in my parents lives. I just had a broader set of mythologies and religions to choose from than a single faith househould might. Even here, my situation isn't unique. One in five adults were raised in interfaith households. Another one in ten raised in households in which one parent had some faith and the other did not. This number has been steadily increasing, exploding lately.....and I think that people forget that I'm a millennial, sometimes, lol. Just barely made the cut.
My little brother is a homelander, and the things he thinks about religion reflect the changes in our family, and our families beliefs, in the gap between us, even. Hell, the dippiest new ager I knew sits down and says grace to jesus, anymore.
As far as pressure, well..the simple act of a persons parents believing something exerts a pressure whether they intentionally do so or not, so there's that...and I certainly afforded the various things my own parents believed more credibility on account of them believing it. I never would have become so obsessed with mythology and religion if these weren't things in my parents lives. I just had a broader set of mythologies and religions to choose from than a single faith househould might. Even here, my situation isn't unique. One in five adults were raised in interfaith households. Another one in ten raised in households in which one parent had some faith and the other did not. This number has been steadily increasing, exploding lately.....and I think that people forget that I'm a millennial, sometimes, lol. Just barely made the cut.
My little brother is a homelander, and the things he thinks about religion reflect the changes in our family, and our families beliefs, in the gap between us, even. Hell, the dippiest new ager I knew sits down and says grace to jesus, anymore.
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