RE: At what age should a child be introduced to religion?
May 26, 2022 at 10:46 am
(This post was last modified: May 26, 2022 at 10:48 am by The Grand Nudger.)
I think it’s a lot easier to stick to the ideal in a mixed faith family. It might even produce a higher quality faith. Neither of us were ever explicit. We even deflected questions about what we believed, or didn’t, with answers about what some people believe and some don’t. Neither of us thinks that adding the personal ownership of an ideology, and that all important approval, assent, or complicity of parents is a way to build people who deeply hold a genuine faith. As it turns out, you really don’t have to do much exposition these days. The kids will just ask Siri in their own time.
That’s not to say that there’s no current in our kids own ideas about the sacred. They’re a pretty obvious combination of the wife’s and my own. They may not think that the sacred can be contained in any kind of person- but they would tell you that life is sacred, love is worship, and all are compelled to the good….though they’re still learning how to put that into practice. If that’s the product of indoctrination( explicit or implicit)…I’ll take it.
That’s not to say that there’s no current in our kids own ideas about the sacred. They’re a pretty obvious combination of the wife’s and my own. They may not think that the sacred can be contained in any kind of person- but they would tell you that life is sacred, love is worship, and all are compelled to the good….though they’re still learning how to put that into practice. If that’s the product of indoctrination( explicit or implicit)…I’ll take it.
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