Last night my 10-year old daughter said that she did not believe in God.

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I've noticed that most (not all, there was this one guy adamantly raising his son to be an atheist, don't know how it's turned out) parents of my acquaintance who I know to be atheists prefer their children reach their own conclusions on religous matters and are willing to expose them to information about religion or allow them to go to services if they're curious about it. I see similarities to their typical approach to sex education.

The question I came to that was the big turning point for me was 'Do I believe this or was I told I believe this?'  That's why I let my kids experience different flavors of faith and come to their own conclusions.

Well, it's hard to put a finger in that wound. My own kids shocked me by staging a rebellion against their mother about Sunday mass. On mommies weekends it was all Sunday best and off to church. On mine it was lets watch movies. So they staged a rebellion. We are not going to church. I wept laughing.

My reaction initially before further conversation was "you did who in the what now?" What was most impressive to me was that they had worked it all out. The logic they wheeled out was flawless. I was jaw dropped. 

I never promoted anything. They made their own choices. But I will admit, I was a little proud. Mostly of them, but a little of me. At least I didn't totally fuck up being a dad.