I appreciate all of your advice. I've imagined telling her that Jesus is like Santa Claus for adults, but I know i wouldn't feel right feel approaching it like that.
Jenny, I like the "information without indoctrination" approach.
Surgenator, I also will introduce my girls to all different types of religions of the world, both past and present. That way she understands that all of the religions cannot be right and that even if a society believes in something, it doesn't mean that it is true.
Exian, it sounds as though a lot of us are in the same boat. Let me know how it goes. It would be so much easier to tell our kids that the loving and cuddly Santa-God is real. But then we aren't atheists because it is easy. We are atheists because we have the strength to live in reality.
Jenny, I like the "information without indoctrination" approach.
Surgenator, I also will introduce my girls to all different types of religions of the world, both past and present. That way she understands that all of the religions cannot be right and that even if a society believes in something, it doesn't mean that it is true.
Exian, it sounds as though a lot of us are in the same boat. Let me know how it goes. It would be so much easier to tell our kids that the loving and cuddly Santa-God is real. But then we aren't atheists because it is easy. We are atheists because we have the strength to live in reality.
