1. We brought our kid up with no special respect for religion as it's ridiculous. She couldn't help but question it when she was small, as she had friends who had been brought up religious. I used non-aggressive logic and ridicule to demolish any doubts that religion deserves any kind of profile in society and she had enough respect for my opinions to listen to what I was saying. She's bright so she used the same arguments that I had used to question everything and now, as an adult, she is as incredulous as I am as to how anyone is stupid enough to buy into any of the death cults.
2. As in 1. I used humour, logic and ridicule. I new the bible a bit anyway so I talked about the illogic and absurdity. Besides which she quickly realised that the religious people she new were horrible, judgmental people. Later, she read some Richard Dawkins.
3. Difficult one that. I honestly don't know. I wouldn't just be disappointed but accepting, as I think anyone who becomes religious has decided to reject reality and to my mind that's insane. I would probably have taken her away from whatever had caused the conversion and as she is a prolific reader I would have got her to read Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennet, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Christopher Hitchens etc
2. As in 1. I used humour, logic and ridicule. I new the bible a bit anyway so I talked about the illogic and absurdity. Besides which she quickly realised that the religious people she new were horrible, judgmental people. Later, she read some Richard Dawkins.
3. Difficult one that. I honestly don't know. I wouldn't just be disappointed but accepting, as I think anyone who becomes religious has decided to reject reality and to my mind that's insane. I would probably have taken her away from whatever had caused the conversion and as she is a prolific reader I would have got her to read Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennet, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Christopher Hitchens etc
"Blasphemy! Blas for you! Blas for everybody in the room!" - Eddie Izzard
