RE: What do atheists tell their children
February 3, 2014 at 12:10 pm
(This post was last modified: February 3, 2014 at 12:19 pm by Alex K.)
I LOLed:
Anyhow, tough call. Will I tell my children that they and I and mummy are going to heaven when we die. No I won't, sorry, they'll have to deal with it. I won't plant this seed of delusion, it is too important to learn a healthy relationship to life early on, and too dangerous to go down that road with young impressionable children. If you give them the heaven copout that early in life, how are they supposed to learn how to truly cope with loss and grief?
I'll surely tell them that some people think that it is so, and that I am pretty sure that it is not so.
Animals and Pets are an entirely different story, of course they go to bird/hamster/guinea pig/rabbit heaven.
One more thing. I would never tell my children that birds are stupid. What folly!
Quote:"Okay, I think it's time to say goodbye to Titman now"
We take Titman up the garden and delicately lower the corpse into the bin. We both stand over it for a moment of solemn reflection. My son looks sad so I squeeze his shoulder.
"He's in a better place now son" I say
"What, the bin?"
"No, not the bin," I say "bird heaven"
Anyhow, tough call. Will I tell my children that they and I and mummy are going to heaven when we die. No I won't, sorry, they'll have to deal with it. I won't plant this seed of delusion, it is too important to learn a healthy relationship to life early on, and too dangerous to go down that road with young impressionable children. If you give them the heaven copout that early in life, how are they supposed to learn how to truly cope with loss and grief?
I'll surely tell them that some people think that it is so, and that I am pretty sure that it is not so.
Animals and Pets are an entirely different story, of course they go to bird/hamster/guinea pig/rabbit heaven.
One more thing. I would never tell my children that birds are stupid. What folly!
