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Have we asked theists what they'd do if their kids turned out like us?
December 5, 2016 at 3:55 pm
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Oh well, at my age I probably ask a lot of questions more than one. (No snickering.)
So if your teenaged kids (or future kids) were to tell you they just can't believe in God any more and didn't want to go with you to church, how would you respond? Naturally there needs to be poll, but as always feel free to point out any inadequacies in its construction and provide your superior response in a comment. You may choose as many as apply in addition to adding other responses in your comment. And your answers will be public in order to subject us all to any due humiliation before our peers.
Rather than let the atheists off the hook, lets provide appropriately broad enough responses to allow atheists to also say how they'd respond if their teenaged kid decided to join one of your Christian cults denominations.
I might well try to dissuade them from joining the cult too, but it would depend on what they had to say about their process. My own stepson has become quite woo, becoming a priest in a cult involving some Brazilian dude who calls himself "John of God". He was 30 before he went this way but I think our situation was complex. His biological dad was a magnet for woo while his mom and I are not. His mom even more so that I. She gets agitated around anything woo. I just get intrigued to understand how people can believe such things.
(December 5, 2016 at 3:57 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: My parents were only concerned for the fist 10 years or so. When they figured out I wouldn't go insane, wouldn't become a killer, or more weird than I all ready was, they let it go.
Well they sound very healthy to me. You could have had it much worse. I guess your failure to go insane was an instance of their having bred true.
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RE: Have we asked theists what they'd do if their kids turned out like us?
December 5, 2016 at 4:38 pm
I told my Catholic husband that he can raise our kids Catholic if he wants and I will stay out of that part of their up bringing. He said he wouldn't put them in the faith. We ended up deciding that he will continue his religious practices while I stay out of it and the children will be raised to see both sides. When they start to question us we will explain to them why we don't believe the same thing. We won't ask them to pick, we won't try to persuade them to one side, we will remind them that if they do pick one it doesn't mean they love one parent over the other, and that it is all a personal decision. If they do become religious I will honestly be sad but I would never let them nor their father know it. I plan on supporting them no matter what.
Now to just have said children. lol
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RE: Have we asked theists what they'd do if their kids turned out like us?
December 5, 2016 at 4:49 pm
My eldest son claimed he was an atheist before I admitted I was atheist to myself. My wife and I raised them Catholic, but all 3 sons are admitted atheists now. So, we don't talk about religion in our house, since my wife and her mother still believe (even in the shroud of Turin, for example! SMH).
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RE: Have we asked theists what they'd do if their kids turned out like us?
December 5, 2016 at 5:26 pm
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I would force them to repent and then burn them to death to ensure them a place in Heaven before they changed their minds again.
PS - I voted for the first 4.
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RE: Have we asked theists what they'd do if their kids turned out like us?
December 5, 2016 at 5:28 pm
My two oldest daughters have followed their mother into Evangelical Christianity, which is not surprising since that is how they were raised. My second daughter seems more involved in it than my oldest, which is probably attributable to the influence of my oldest daughter's husband, who goes along to get along but is fairly skeptical about it all. It rankles to see them buy such nonsense, but it's their choice and I don't interfere. That said, I also don't play the relativist and pretend that I admire their choice. They know what I think about it, and we have agreed to disagree and leave it at that. I will focus on doing what I can to mitigate the damage with my grandchildren and encourage critical thinking in whatever ways I can.
My third daughter and my son are both atheists.
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RE: Have we asked theists what they'd do if their kids turned out like us?
December 5, 2016 at 6:03 pm
(December 5, 2016 at 5:26 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I would force them to repent and then burn them to death to ensure them a place in Heaven before they changed their minds again.
Man you're on fire lately!
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RE: Have we asked theists what they'd do if their kids turned out like us?
December 5, 2016 at 7:17 pm
I say it depends on the kid.
Me: Ready for church?
Teen: Why do I have to go it's all bullshit anyway?
Me: You're going anyway but don't take communion if you don't want. We'll talk about your disrespect when we get home.
Me: What's that book?
Teen: Camus's The Stranger.
Me: So what do you think?
Teen: I kinda agree. I might be an atheist.
Me: That's okay it took me 50 years to become a Catholic. Keep reading.
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RE: Have we asked theists what they'd do if their kids turned out like us?
December 5, 2016 at 7:48 pm
Chad, did you actually have any kids? (I've helped to parent one from the age of 6 so that kind of counts, but I hear you're more likely to act out in entitled ways if you actually contribute DNA. Doubt it though.
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RE: Have we asked theists what they'd do if their kids turned out like us?
December 5, 2016 at 7:49 pm
(December 5, 2016 at 5:26 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: I would force them to repent and then burn them to death to ensure them a place in Heaven before they changed their minds again.
PS - I voted for the first 4.
Glad to see Literalism is finally taking hold.
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RE: Have we asked theists what they'd do if their kids turned out like us?
December 5, 2016 at 7:51 pm
She is totally cracking me up lately. I like when she fakes (?) this dark side.
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