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However, while raised with Catholic values and taught them, and being sent to CCD and Sunday school, Our house was not, in your opinion, a "Christian house." Why? Because I could play video games, and read scientific literature and was taught evolution and natural history, right along side with ID/Creationism and biblical history, and because I was not chastised for my teenage years of refusing to go to church and thinking that religion was false and BS.... no... they didn't scream at me and call me blasphemous and tell me all these evil things would happen. They offered constructive critiscm and backed off.

Boy are you off base here. Who said anything about never playing video games, watching movies, read scientific literature, or going to public school? AFAIC those are all fine in moderation, I would however tell my kid when they are walking off the path they are putting their soul in danger, grieving the holy spirit is awful close to blaspheming it.

All I am saying is you cant be a Christian one or two days a week. Every day you need to be in the word and talking to God going to church on Sunday and tithing and living in the world the rest of the time is, to me, more dangerous a spiritual walk than being completely depraved.

Why, because IMO the story I just recited would be the AMERICAN way of doing things. Freedom.. free thought, free expression, freedom to THINK and ANALYSZ and work through your own thought process

This is why I am a Christan before I'm an American (though the two things are seldom if ever in conflict). God has risen and destroyed great nations just to prove his glory and power.

I don't think running a convent in your home to children who cannot possible fully comprehend the power of our lord and what it means to be christian is any better then Musloms doing it.

Response A: Nor does running a brothel in your home prepare your children to be discerning adults... (Hey if you can blow my position to the extreme yours is fair game)

Response B: I have a duty to teach my kids the truth and if they don't take it they will still get their butts in the seat to hear it. I will not allow filth in my home, I will not allow banality to overtake substance, and I will love my kids no matter what they do. As for the 'kids cant understand' thats utter BS:

Mat 18:3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Mat 18:4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

If you don't live a Christian life as an earthly father you make it harder for kids to identify with tehir heavenly father, and going to Church one day a week does not cut it..