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RE: If your child became a theist...
August 9, 2010 at 9:01 am
"your god"? Who's God does the God of deism belong to? No one I would have thought. It's impersonal.
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RE: If your child became a theist...
August 9, 2010 at 9:03 am
I think he just meant it in a non-possessive sense. IE, not his God.
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RE: If your child became a theist...
August 9, 2010 at 9:09 am
Well, they're all imaginary.
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RE: If your child became a theist...
August 9, 2010 at 9:26 am
(August 9, 2010 at 6:18 am)solja247 Wrote: Imagine, you have taught your child there is no logic and reasoning in religion or in the belief of God or gods. Your child is older now (Lets say 20) and becomes a theist. After trying to convince them and they still persisit, what do you do?
See, I agree with the majority, in that I'd accept my child regardless of their beliefs. In that first choice, you put that very big qualifier of IF in there. As in, IF they "rationally believe in god." My child may very well grow up and decide to be a muslim because of her father's belief, does that mean I automatically reject her? Absolutely not.
I think you are trying to set atheists up by making us look like a bunch of closed minded assholes. How's that working out for you?
Nothing is your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull. - George Orwell
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RE: If your child became a theist...
August 9, 2010 at 9:28 am
WAIT! We're not assholes? Well, shit.
pun intended
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RE: If your child became a theist...
August 9, 2010 at 9:36 am
I agree with most about the answer to this this question. However, I would have raised my children to think rationally and to have the ability to make up their own minds on what they want to believe (as long as it does not hurt anyone) instead of shoving beliefs and ideas down their throats. I wish every parent would do the same.
By the way, I find the statement "Accept them if they rationally believe in God" an oxymoron. You cannot reach a belief in an imaginary being by rational means. It takes blind faith, and blind faith is irrational.
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...
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RE: If your child became a theist...
August 9, 2010 at 9:42 am
(August 9, 2010 at 9:36 am)DiRNiS Wrote: However, I would have raised my children to think rationally and to have the ability to make up their own minds on what they want to believe (as long as it does not hurt anyone) instead of shoving beliefs and ideas down their throats. I wish every parent would do the same.
Agreed. Which is why I give my child the tools to make up her own mind. In a previous thread I iterated that she has to make up her own mind, no matter what.
No child should be choked with belief or lack of belief. It does not lend to a decision that is completely their own.
Nothing is your own except the few cubic centimeters inside your skull. - George Orwell
