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That's a difficult situation, for sure. You mentioned that you didn't want to push your beliefs on them. The best you can do is to encourage critical thinking. Encourage skepticism. Lead by example. Little things like "wonder why that is" for something that has nothing to do with religion. Blatantly don't take things at face value. Conversation about global warming, "let's look at the available evidence from both sides and come to our own conclusion."
Freethought and skepticism have a natural conclusion. Support the right to those religious beliefs that you instilled in them, at the very least. Most importantly, be a good parent who is an atheist, not an atheist parent, even a good one.
That's a difficult situation, for sure. You mentioned that you didn't want to push your beliefs on them. The best you can do is to encourage critical thinking. Encourage skepticism. Lead by example. Little things like "wonder why that is" for something that has nothing to do with religion. Blatantly don't take things at face value. Conversation about global warming, "let's look at the available evidence from both sides and come to our own conclusion."
Freethought and skepticism have a natural conclusion. Support the right to those religious beliefs that you instilled in them, at the very least. Most importantly, be a good parent who is an atheist, not an atheist parent, even a good one.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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