RE: Honest query
August 3, 2009 at 1:20 pm
(This post was last modified: August 3, 2009 at 1:22 pm by Moonman.)
Hi Maldives. I would like to ask you how you approach holidays like Easter and Christmas with your kids. How do you prepare them for interaction with their peers who come from fundamentalist families?
I realise that it must be far more difficult in some areas of the US than here in Europe where religion seems to have run its course in most countries, that is, it has been relegated to following traditions and has become a sort of talisman for right wing political parties rather than the type of everyday fanaticism you speak of. Do you find it ironic that America, being founded on liberty and freedom of belief, is now a place where the moral majority demands people adhere to its standards (outwardly at least) and ostracises families that don´t?
I realise that it must be far more difficult in some areas of the US than here in Europe where religion seems to have run its course in most countries, that is, it has been relegated to following traditions and has become a sort of talisman for right wing political parties rather than the type of everyday fanaticism you speak of. Do you find it ironic that America, being founded on liberty and freedom of belief, is now a place where the moral majority demands people adhere to its standards (outwardly at least) and ostracises families that don´t?
