Will you raise your children as Atheists?

[zebo-the-fat]

I told my kids to question everything and look at the facts not the opinions, both grew up to be fairly sane atheist adults

[ManMachine]

I realize some of you may already have children, and I'd rather not edit the title with every grammar possibility.

If you are to have children, will you raise them as an Atheist? I think If I have children, I'm not going to raise them with the bullshit of Christianity, but I'm not going to force Atheism on my child, I'll teach him evolution and science, but I won't tell him that some magical man in the sky created the universe, what about you?

I would no more impose atheism on my son than religion. My job is to bring him up so that he is able to make his own informed decisions about the world, which I accept, no matter what he decides.

MM

[One Above All]

I'd raise them as intelligent human beings. If they conclude there's evidence for one or more deities, that's that. I'm not even sure how one can "raise a child as an atheist".

[robvalue]

I suppose you could raise them to be a gnostic atheist through the same indoctrination religions use. It would again be child abuse and pointless. Just condition them with threats and rewards until they can think no differently.

In fact, religions do this too. As well as abusing their child into accepting their religion, they abuse them into being atheists against all other religions.

[Ben Davis]

If you are to have children, will you raise them as an Atheist?

Since atheism is the default position, I won't have to. I simply won't indoctrinate them. As long as they can think critically, the results are almost inevitable.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

If you are to have children, will you raise them as an Atheist?

Since atheism is the default position, I won't have to. I simply won't indoctrinate them. As long as they can think critically, the results are almost inevitable.

QFT

[The Valkyrie]

If I ever have kids I'll encourage them to think for themselves and make their own choices.

If they want to go to church they can, depending on their age and with adult supervision.

If they want to become religious, I won't stop them, so long as they're old enough to understand the consequences of their choice.

[Kloud]

Indeed, I did. One is 37 and the other is 34 and both think religion is a pile of shit.

Wow.. Nice to see a life veteran on here

[Cato]

My son is 27 and my daughter is 24. My wife is the type of Christian that doesn't attend church and doesn't care to talk about religion. She believes in the non-biblical all good and all loving God/Jesus that she remembers from her youth. I think it gives her bedtime prayers an imagined destination.

We never took the kids to church. There were no prayers before dinner and no indoctrination. The only time religion came up is when the kids would come home with a question based on some influence from outside the home. Before this morning I couldn't honestly say exactly what my children's specific thoughts were about religion. I still can't tell you what my son thinks although I know he doesn't attend church. It's simply that inconsequential.

This morning, my daughter affirmed that she doesn't believe. This came out as a simple matter of fact while she was sharing her frustration with extended family members pressuring her to baptize my 10 month old granddaughter. Knowing me, she preemptively told me that telling them all to fuck off wasn't an option for her. I told her to get the Methodists and Presbyterians involved to discuss this with other family members that are Pentecostal and Baptist. She should only consider the proposed baptism once they all agree on the course of action. Problem solved.

[Chad32]

She should only consider the proposed baptism once they all agree on the course of action. Problem solved.

I want to see that so badly.