I wouldn't teach them there is no god. I would teach my child to look at the world and to ask why. To seek valid answers and to find things out for themselves. I would teach my child how to think. Not what to think. And most important, how to think FOR THEM SELF.
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Will you raise your children as Atheists?
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Never had kids but had I, and one turned Mormon, Scientologist or JW, it would have been a freaking nightmare.
(and there would be more 'religions' to append, but those for now are the worst)  RE: Will you raise your children as Atheists?
December 17, 2014 at 8:28 pm
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(December 17, 2014 at 7:53 pm)Kloud Wrote:(December 17, 2014 at 7:49 pm)Heywood Wrote: Every house has its own beliefs and traditions. You should raise them with the beliefs and traditions that are prevalent in your house.I know, I'm asking what you would raise them as? My kids believe in God for now anyways. 
Children are already atheists. Without religion being forced upon their defenseless minds, they don't need to know they have already been pre-labeled by society for being born and untainted by psychological religious abuse.
 RE: Will you raise your children as Atheists?
December 17, 2014 at 8:40 pm
(This post was last modified: December 17, 2014 at 8:40 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
If you don't teach your child religion, you're raising your child as a de facto atheist.
You could do worse. Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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December 17, 2014 at 8:46 pm
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I don't have any children, but if I did I would encourage them to decide for themselves. Their decisions would be their own and I would accept their beliefs even if they didn't coincide with my mine own.
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid." ~ Benjamin Franklin
It's been said a million times, but I'll say it again. My children will be taught how to think, not what to think.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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My children will be thinkers. Annoying everyone with their questions.
I always tell myself I won't say to my daughter "Christianity is wrong!", but we stumbled upon an instance where I had to do just that. We were gaving a discussion about evolution and the way it propagates, and she must have recognized that this is in contention with the Adam and Eve story (she learned from her grandparents). After a long pause, she asked me if Adam and Eve were real, and I straight up told her they were not, and explained how it was impossible.
I kind of laughed and thought to myself, "Well, so much for not telling her Christianity is wrong." The hard part was wording it in such a way as to save face for the people she respects who believe that sort of thing.
I can't remember where this verse is from, I think it got removed from canon:
"I don't hang around with mostly men because I'm gay. It's because men are better than women. Better trained, better equipped...better. Just better! I'm not gay." For context, this is the previous verse: "Hi Jesus" -robvalue  (December 17, 2014 at 8:57 pm)Exian Wrote: I always tell myself I won't say to my daughter "Christianity is wrong!", but we stumbled upon an instance where I had to do just that. We were gaving a discussion about evolution and the way it propagates, and she must have recognized that this is in contention with the Adam and Eve story (she learned from her grandparents). After a long pause, she asked me if Adam and Eve were real, and I straight up told her they were not, and explained how it was impossible. That would be the problem with questions huh? We ended up there pretty fast. The other early kid question was, "who made god?"
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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