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Originally Posted by Buff
So you're saying that I shouldn't teach my children what I believe in, just because you refuse to believe in it?
Tell me Mr. Know it all, how am I supposed to raise my children? How am I supposed to live my life? What am I supposed to believe? I ask because apparently you don't want me or other believers to think for ourselves. You don't want us to 'corrupt' people from your 'truth'. Which is exactly what you are trying to do, you're trying to corrupt them with your conspiracy theories.
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You can raise your children with whatever beliefs you have, just not with the public dollar in a public system. Public education should be a system of facts and basic common sense values while mythology should be taught as just that, mythology. As was mentioned earleir in this thread there is more evidence for a belief in Bigfoot then there is for God.
I am willing to take my son to church when he asks to go even though I'm atheist. he was attending Sunday school with his grandmother for a few months, but when coming home he wasn't asking about Jesus, he was lecturing me about sin. 6 years old is too early for that kind of worry IMO.
I try not to see religion as a shackle holding back our social and even spiritual progress, but rather as a guiding force that makes sure we continue in a positive direction toward understanding life and our role in the universe. However so much organized religion today, whether it be fundamentalists in the middle east or the severe right wing the mid-west of the USA, is too bent on restrictions and the constraining of simple human rights.
Whether my son becomes religious or not will be entirely up to him. I don't preach about non-god to him, I just hope that when he grown up he keeps his mind open to every view and is able to accept any belief system as being just as likely as his.