(December 23, 2013 at 10:47 pm)mostlysilent Wrote: I am 40 years old and am an atheist and have been my entire life. Both my parents were and still are atheists. I grew up in the bible belt of the united states and also went to public schools. I have been surrounded by bible thumpers my entire life. My parents were not perfect by any means and they made a lot of mistakes with me and my other siblings growing up but one thing they did right was to teach us to think critically and to question everything. As a result all the bible thumpers in the world have never been able to convince me that any of their theories make any sense at all. Not sure if that helps but its been my experience that if you raise your kids to think it won't matter what nonsense people throw at them. They will see right through it.
Thank you for your reassuring experienced advice. I definitely needed that. It's one of my biggest worries, for my son to come home one day from school proclaiming his redemption in religion or some shit.
I know I'm a tad bit late on responding. Holidays will screw ya up. Lol.
