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redhotmomma
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Should teach your kids to believe in what you believe in or let them decide when they are older and can understand themselves?
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SShewbert
What love is all about
I am teaching my kids what I believe in. That goes for everything not just religion. There will come a point though when they will have to choose for themselves what they want to believe. At that point all I can hope for is that I did a good enough job raising them.
gumbo
FIGHT CLUB !
Seeing how there isn't a religion out there that doesn't twist something around to benefit themselves or their own beliefs.
Read the Bible with them and follow your hearts.
SShewbert
What love is all about
I agree. I never understood before why someone said they are spirtual but not religious. I may be taking that statement out of context but that is how I feel. Most religions have some fault to them. I consider myself to be a Christian but the main point is that my kids understand the Bible. Not this religion or that one.
I have alternated between atheism and true Christianity. So I never taught my kids what I believed because I wasn't so sure myself. We went to several different churches and they were probably aware that I didn't believe in God. I just wanted them to know all sorts of things so they could decide for themselves.
SShewbert
What love is all about
I applaud you for that. I am certain in all of my beliefs. I am not saying I am right or wrong just that is how I feel. I want my kids to know how I feel. If they turn out to feel the same way then ok if not ok also. I can not force them and to try to do so would just be wrong and make them resent me and my beliefs. I want my kids to be independent and no matter what choices they ever make they will always have my support whether I agree with them or not. This is funny that she is posting this since my husband and I were having a conversation on it just yesterday.
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redhotmomma
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I agree with you. I am atheist. I hope i spelled that right. I am so tried i have not been spelling good tonight..lol! I want my kids to learn about all different kinds of religions. I am still learning about them not.I know i won't change my mind but maybe by learning something knew it will help understand other people points of views.
I believe in the Great Spirit and unlike organized religion, believe in a natural cathedral that is the outside world. I need no middleman, but what goes on between me and the Great Creator is our business alone.
I would hope by our personal examples we would encourage our children to respect the world around them. I was raised a catholic but I am enraged by a papacy that lives like emperors as a majority of their flock lives in abject poverty, while the wealthy among them think it is their entitled right to live like the popes. Likewise, I am appalled by the wealth of the televangelists who live off the tithes of their followers. I think this is an equally bad example to follow.
Like earlier generations, the children of today want to find meaning and purpose. I hope in my heart that they don't emulate the 60s generation and find answers in drugs. There is only a dark end on an even darker shadow road. I hope they find the truth in themselves, but we are the physical examples they have to look to and we must not fail them.
I would hope by our personal examples we would encourage our children to respect the world around them. I was raised a catholic but I am enraged by a papacy that lives like emperors as a majority of their flock lives in abject poverty, while the wealthy among them think it is their entitled right to live like the popes. Likewise, I am appalled by the wealth of the televangelists who live off the tithes of their followers. I think this is an equally bad example to follow.
Like earlier generations, the children of today want to find meaning and purpose. I hope in my heart that they don't emulate the 60s generation and find answers in drugs. There is only a dark end on an even darker shadow road. I hope they find the truth in themselves, but we are the physical examples they have to look to and we must not fail them.
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Queenofdenile1
Love is Blind
I don't read the Bible because it can be conflicting, contradicting and not the easiest book in the world to read and understand. It can be viewed by your own interpretations and/or a preachers. I was brought up by what my parents believed. Now that I am older, sometimes I question things that maybe I shouldn't but only because life put me in a dark place a long time ago. I have faith in something, I believe in a higher power. I would like to really believe there is a God. It would be nice if what everything that was taught to us about God was true. If God exists, I'll meet him one day and if he doesn't, I won't be too surprised.
Again I concur with you. Individual connections , at least to me, are more important than middlemen. The Bible, while full of inspiration, is also full of dismal information or misinformation. It has been referred to as the "most dangerous book in the world" and rightfully so, because of all the reasons others use to justify their actions because of it.
I was brought up by my parents as Roman Catholic, but their actions as well as the actions of members of the clergy did not inspire me to follow in their foot steps. Sort of do as I say and not as I do methodology, if you follow my drift.
I doubt even the most hard case among us are not interested in that "other door" beyond this life. It is as said early in the second indy jones movie " the greatest adventure yet which no one else can follow". All we can be assured of is that we have tried to live life as honestly and best as we can. Good fortune to you and may the rest of your life be satisfying.
Regardless of your chosen religion, most of the modern ones teach of love, compassion, and respect. My mother told me once, "I don't care if you believe in god or not. I just want you to lead a good life."
Queenofdenile1
Love is Blind
Oh, I'm interested in the "other door" beyond this life, which is probably why I do have some faith in God/higher power. I'm not a disbeliever to not care about anything and run a muck. It keeps me somewhat in balance, even though I may not believe everything and question some things. I am also of the Catholic faith and I used to be more into the religion insofar as going to church more frequently. Now I go to church once in a while. Maybe one day I will try something new that will inspire me to go more often.
morningbell
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My son and BF were watching some docu on a Creationists that believe God planted dinosaur bones underground to test our faith even though carbon dating proves them wrong. My son said, "isn't it silly mommy that there are actually people who think dinosaurs were fake?" I love when his brain gears are spinning.
punjabigyrl
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I am teaching my children islam along with all other religions. I grew up learning all religions.
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toppick08
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.don't let Baja28 get wind of this........
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