(February 9, 2015 at 5:04 pm)Godschild Wrote: ... See you've asked these people to make decisions for you, in other words you have adopted them as parents, you really believe that is a good thing. Have they loved you these 14 years, feed you, gave you a home and all parents do for their child, have they? Does what a parent do for their child seem they would steer one in the wrong direction? Don't you believe your parents have the right to handle this, they gave you life, they've worried over you daily, their the ones that's guided you in many ways for 14 years. Tell me which one of these on this site have changed your diapers, watched over you when you were sick, fix meals for you every day and all the other caring things parents do for their children.
So, you think children of Muslim parents are correct to believe in Islam, since their parents took care of them? That children of Hindus are correct to believe in Hinduism, since their parents took care of them? That children of Buddhists are correct to believe in Buddhism, since their parents took care of them?
Have you no regard at all for people believing the truth? Following your advice, most people in the world would believe falsehoods. This is because, no matter what one believes about religion, most other people in the world disagree. If everyone simply (mindlessly, really) believes whatever fool thing their parents believe, most people will be wrong.
(February 9, 2015 at 5:04 pm)Godschild Wrote: I'm old enough to be your parents parent, I've seen things even they have not lived long enough to see and understand, so believe me when I say this, these people here couldn't care less if you wind up in hell, all they are looking for is a victory, their hatred for God blinds them.
That is pretty funny! Do you hate the Easter Bunny, if you don't believe it exists?
(February 9, 2015 at 5:04 pm)Godschild Wrote: If you do not believe me read the responses that came my way from them, judge for yourself. You need to think about the love your parents and you have for each other and you might want to brows through this forum and see the relationship some of these gave up with their families, just to be an atheist. Seems to me they chose atheism over family and you know what they cry about Jesus saying He was more important than family, if they only knew what He meant. I have no other advise to give you and the decisions your's and no one else's.
Wishing you a good future with your family.
GC
This is also quite funny. Following your advice, the children of atheists ought to be atheists, since their parents took care of them.
Personally, I think you are giving the worst advice possible, in that following it would condemn most people to believing falsehoods and lies. I say, believe in accordance with the evidence. If someone loves you, it does not make them correct. Nor does it make them incorrect, either. It is, in fact, fundamentally irrelevant to the issue of whether they are right or wrong about matters of religion. This is an obvious fact, yet you seem to be unaware of it.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
