(October 19, 2009 at 6:27 am)Arcanus Wrote: Under the Christian view, parents are stewards of their children, not owners, and morally culpable to God for their stewardship, or how they treated that which belongs to him.
This is also Dan Dennett's view, as an atheist. And my own too.
Dennett even put it exactly like that, parents are strewards of their children.
Sorry if this point seemed a bit irrelevant or uninteresting, I just wanted to point out that whether a Christian thing or not, that, of course, there are plenty of atheists with the same view.
I think that basically all good parents have this view, whether religious or non-religious.
I'd just like to say that, I strongly support that view, in both a secular and non-secular sense. And parent(s) that has (have) this view have the right view, whetehr it's for secular reasons or whether they believe in it due to their "faith" (Although I'd, of course, prefer it if they'd be like it without needing "faith", but that differes from person to person *sighs*).
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