Billion + believe in Satan. Should all schools be mandated to teach Creationism?

[Exian]

If she needs to believe in an after life, then she should know that she will have to kowtow to a religion that is likely misogynistic as are all the mainstream religions.

Quite the chance you take with your daughter.

Regards
DL

You'll get no argument from me in defense of mainstream religion, but I don't think believing in an afterlife automatically means you bow down to a particular religion. My father, for example, is a deeply spiritual man, was raised catholic, and, over the past few years, has adopted all manner of meditation driven woo. He was searching for God, and while he may have found a self satifying answer for his version of God, souls, and the after-life, he left his religion. He has concluded that we will never know for sure if there is a higher power or not, so he's going with what makes him feel good. He likes the idea of some family reunion style after-life (I don't know why, he hates them here).

If my daughter arrives at a similar conclusion, I won't be disappointed. Until then, I shall do my best to teach her critical thinking, the pit falls of religion, and as much science as I can (her favorite subject, next to social studies--next to cartoons, videogames, and nerf battles). If, after I've done the best job I'm capable of in preparing her, she still decides to be a fossil-denying fundy creatard, then so be it. We'll always have something to talk about. But, if I know her like I know I do, she'll have a good head on her shoulders.

You are correct- life is quite the chance we take.