RE: Broke my Heart...
February 2, 2013 at 2:19 pm
(This post was last modified: February 2, 2013 at 2:25 pm by festive1.)
(February 2, 2013 at 12:30 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Did you just say that you made the inverse theological decision when you were 6 or 7 in a different thread?
Yes I did. I also said that my chucking the whole religion thing was due to my inability to determine which doctrine was correct. I didn't start to call myself an atheist until I was 11 or 12, though that was rooted in my experience when we switched churches. (ETA: This is to say, I might not have self-identified as an atheist at 6 or 7, but in hindsight that's where my faith broke.) This boy at the party isn't likely to suddenly start attending a Mosque or Mass. His religious experience isn't going to be diverse, it's going to be absolute. There isn't going to be a questioning of the absoluteness of his parents' faith until he's older, by which point he may or may not have drunk the Kool-Aid, so to speak.
I don't know if one can do away with the terms "Christian child" or "Jewish child" or whatever the faith may be. But seeing this boy brought Dawkins' argument to my mind and it was within the context of that argument that it has been bouncing around my skull for the past several days.
