Atheist parents who try to raise “intellectually curious” children are often disappointed because those children usually end up believing in God. If parents really wish to make atheist children, they should live lives of hypocrisy; that is, be atheists, but pretend to be Christians. That will sour kids on God real fast.. .a lot faster than involving them in intellectual pursuit.
What is it about liberalism that makes them want to force others to believe as they do?
I have no problem with them wanting to raise their kids any way they please, but why do they insist that EVERYONE ELSE raise their kids the way THEY believe
It is a mental desease
So now WE are on the side of telling parents what and how to inform their children.
Treading dangerous ground, IMO.
I do not have a problem with atheists and fully respect their choice but I’m finding too many atheists(not all) are mostly anti-Christian(although very silent on Islam) in their rhetoric while attempting to remove all traces of Christianity in our society .
I hope the kids notice that no professed atheist lives consistently with their supposed worldview. They all act as if there are eternal absolutes which touch on various areas of their existance.
Unfortunately, you can’t always save the world. Look at the people who have children living in San Fransicko.
That alone is child abuse.
leads to a belief that there are no absolutes which leads to relativistic ethics and arbitrary laws.This leads to increased risk of statism and socialism in the long run.
If you try and stop atheists from teaching their children atheist beliefs, it wont be long before the government starts coming to stop you from teaching your children Christian beliefs.
Most children inherit their parents religious beliefs.
I don’t see this in a negative light. In fact, it sounds like there is a need for a workshop on how religious parents can raise “intellectually curious children” within their religion.
Religions make a serious mistake by being intellectually segregated from other studies. In truth, religion is part philosophy, part history, part government, part business, and part language and other studies. These need to be taught apart from, but as part of, religion.
Instead, what we have today is a homogeneity of religious faiths and ideas. Presbyterians in practice little different from Methodists, etc.
Imagine going to say, an Episcopalian church, finding a dozen adults, and ask them what is the history of *their* religion? Think any would have a clue?
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This seems to me to be an emotionally and psychologically disturbing process, especially so the younger the age it occurs. It is not the flip side of a parent providing a child religious instruction, which (truth be told) the child may or may not accept. Religious instruction at least does not require the child, at fundamental levels, to say that his own instinctive conclusions are actually lies.
This is not to say that, as the child grows up, he may not choose to dismiss what his eyes tell him. But that is not as harmful psychologically as having parents teach him from an early age that he cannot trust his own spiritual instincts at all.
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Gee! Why should atheist parents worry about raising atheist children?
Tax funded and secular ( that means godless) government schools teach our nation’s kids to think godlessly ALL DAY LONG!