(March 9, 2015 at 12:40 pm)Crossless1 Wrote: Teach your kids how to think, not what to think. Encourage questions. Provide them with good source material so they can learn to look up things themselves.
This is pretty much the attitude my mother has expressed in raising my sister and I, and even so, when I told her I was an atheist at 16/17 she responded that I was going to go to hell.
Just because you raise a child to ask questions and investigate the world doesn't mean you aren't also personally invested in whether they ultimately agree with your beliefs.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.