(May 7, 2015 at 12:28 pm)Brometheus Wrote: I've had a weird situation while detoxing from Christianity.
I de-converted from Christianity starting about 4 years ago, gradually, through education and seeking. However, even though I know what is true, I still find myself inwardly hoping my young children will grow up Christian. All I can figure is that it is some kind of bet hedging. Has anybody else experienced this? It is a very uncomfortable thing to mentally fight.
My guess is that there's a bit of nervousness because we don't really know what to expect from nonreligious grade schoolers. It's sort of uncharted territory, as this is or is close to the first generation where they are going to make up a big portion of the school population.
I think there is a positive stereotype of christian upbringing that leads to nice kids who do nice things and live nice happy lives with other nice people. I don't know if there even is a stereotype for Atheist kids yet. I do know the stereotype of the Atheist adult, as a pretentious butthurt asshole like Hitchens or Mahr probably hurts the cause. But it'll be a lot different I suspect with 2nd generation atheists maybe. Or maybe not. That's probably the rub.
