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If your child...
#1
If your child...
This is an interesting philosophical quesition. Atheists/secularists pride themselves on being tolerant/openminded. This question may challenge that presumption.

Let's say you and your atheist spouse/signficant other raise a child. One day, when he/she is about 10-12 (or whatever age I guess) one day he/she comes to you and says "Mom/Dad, I know what I want to be. I want to be a Catholic priest/monk/nun. Im really sure it's what I want. Well?"

In some crazy hypothetical future, if your child expressed an interest in taking Catholic holy orders.. how would you respond?

Would you affirm atheist jr.'s calling, or try to talk them out of it, for their own prosperity/safety?
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#2
RE: If your child...
Yes

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Checkmate

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#3
RE: If your child...
Oh, look another shit an run thread.

Posting an obvious question to anyone having the barest shred of tolerance. Are you actually able to pull a believable sharade?

Try the butthurt schtick again, will you?
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(February 16, 2016 at 6:45 pm)abaris Wrote: Oh, look another shit an run thread.

Posting an obvious question to anyone having the barest shred of tolerance. Are you actually able to pull a believable sharade?

Try the butthurt schtick again, will you?

Mind your mouth you jerk!

I am not shitting and running. I have a full life you know and cannot remain to answer questions indefinitly!

Abaris.. would you encourage a son of yours to become a priest if that was his wish? After all you live in Austria, the home of the Catholic Hapsburgs and the singing Von Trapp family. Didn't you just love the Sound of Music Smile ?

Julie Andrews could have shown less skin I guess, but it was a delightful movie all the same!
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Reported.
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(February 16, 2016 at 6:47 pm)TrueChristian Wrote: Abaris.. would you encourage a son of yours to become a priest if that was his wish? After all you live in Austria, the home of the Catholic Hapsburgs and the singing Von Trapp family. Didn't you just love the Sound of Music Smile .

Ah, the butthurt schtick. I so hoped for that. It's Habsburg, actually, and the Trapps were going candy in America. Before that, he was a very successful submarine commander in WWI.

But that aside. You already got your answer in my previous post. Not that it would matter, since this is just another mirror wank by a phony, changing his skin like others their underpants.
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(February 16, 2016 at 6:37 pm)TrueChristian Wrote: This is an interesting philosophical quesition. Atheists/secularists pride themselves on being tolerant/openminded. This question may challenge that presumption.

Let's say you and your atheist spouse/signficant other raise a child. One day, when he/she is about 10-12 (or whatever age I guess) one day he/she comes to you and says "Mom/Dad, I know what I want to be. I want to be a Catholic priest/monk/nun. Im really sure it's what I want. Well?"

In some crazy hypothetical future, if your child expressed an interest in taking Catholic holy orders.. how would you respond?

Would you affirm atheist jr.'s calling, or try to talk them out of it, for their own prosperity/safety?

The issue isn't labels, the issue is knowing what you get into before a marriage. Humans stupidly jump into them thinking "love" is all there is to make it work. My x divorced me, not because I was wrong, or she was wrong, but because we were not on the same page. Now, while I know religion is total bullshit, I'd say if two people can manage it with different labels, much like partners can have different political parties. I love my mom, but she votes republican and I am a democrat, so it isn't impossible. But when it comes to raising kids, you better have a conversation before you bring a kid into the world.

I would not disown my own kid, if I had one, if they found a religion. But sure, I would try to argue why they are wrong, but as long as they were not asshole dicks like right wingers of any religion, I'd still love them. I did have to cut off a relationship with my older brother who is uber fundy, not because he believed, but because he emotionally sucked the life out of me and everything, including mundane things like playing a game of pool, was life and death to him.

Point being, your "other" on any topic has the right to be themselves, your kids also. But jumping in blindly because of hormones without discussing money and future and anything, can set you up for disappointment. You are marrying a human, not a product, or political party, and your kids are not clay to forcibly mold, but only individuals to guide.
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And some are still taking him seriously .....
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#9
RE: If your child...
"My son, catholic priests have a reputaion for being child molesters. I would advise against becoming a priest."
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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RE: If your child...
I would beat my child with a stick, burn his feet with hot coals, crush his thumbs with screws, squeeze his head in a vise, dislocate his joints, then tell him, 'Congratulations, my son - you are now a Catholic priest. God forth and do unto others as has been done unto you.'

Ask a stupid question....

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‘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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