My girlfriend wants our kids introduced to "all major world religions"
May 3, 2012 at 9:43 pm
(This post was last modified: May 3, 2012 at 10:01 pm by Engel.)
Ok, long story short, I was talking with my current girlfriend a couple of weeks ago and the matter of what religion, if any, would our kids practice. Considering she is an agnostic, I figured she would be apathetic about the issue and just say that we wouldn't encourage religion. Her parents are conservative Africans from Sierra Leone who do practice Protestantism, as do her sisters. 
The rest of her family practices Christianity or an Animist belief. For her own part, she is an anarchist and an very socially liberal. Which is why this bothers me a little. Her exact words were "They should be exposed to all the world religions, that way they can choose amongst them". This doesn't bode well with me. I would be fine with them looking at what these religions believe as an adult, but not as an impressionable child who is liable to believe what is told to him in the most fantastic and fervent manner, as I once was. What do you guys make of this and what should I tell her? Keep in mind that I am just 18 but she and I are like-minded and compatible on almost all plateaus: emotional, intellectual, sexual and dynamically. I'd hate to sound bitter saying this, but prior to meeting her love was very unreal to me. She is the only person who has ever made me feel this way.
I await your replies. 
The rest of her family practices Christianity or an Animist belief. For her own part, she is an anarchist and an very socially liberal. Which is why this bothers me a little. Her exact words were "They should be exposed to all the world religions, that way they can choose amongst them". This doesn't bode well with me. I would be fine with them looking at what these religions believe as an adult, but not as an impressionable child who is liable to believe what is told to him in the most fantastic and fervent manner, as I once was. What do you guys make of this and what should I tell her? Keep in mind that I am just 18 but she and I are like-minded and compatible on almost all plateaus: emotional, intellectual, sexual and dynamically. I'd hate to sound bitter saying this, but prior to meeting her love was very unreal to me. She is the only person who has ever made me feel this way. I await your replies.
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