(July 13, 2015 at 9:48 pm)Godschild Wrote: Oh right, with atheist as parents what else would the results be. You should read Matthew 18:6, Mark 9:42 and Luke 17:2, a lesson to be taken seriously.
GC
My daughter believed in a god (presumably the Christian flavour, from interacting with her peers and social club activities) up until a couple of years ago. I didn't tell her not to believe in it, she asked what I thought and I told her why I don't believe in gods while suggesting as well as you can to an 8 year old that she should make these decisions herself and always question others and, more importantly, herself about such things.
Last year sometime she told me that she no longer believes in gods - note the plural. She has learnt about the main religions and various different gods at school and decided that it's not for her - hence her asking me to contact school recently to excuse her from prayers and praise type songs.
She is still too young to fully understand the implications but I'm pleased that she is at least starting out from a neutral position here on in (as she was when she came into the world). If she chooses to embrace faith in some or other god when she is older that's her choice but I will advise her if she asks.
Let's see, the first offering you gave me to reconsider my actions as an atheist parent were Matthew 18:6. I picked the KJ version but they all read pretty much the same (which is unusual in itself for bible translations).
"But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea"
Could you put this in context for me, bearing in mind my description of my interactions with my daughter above please.
