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Originally Posted by Sliver
You can have a very rich life filled with friends, family, community, and contribution while guided by a strong moral compass without also believing in fairytales and choosing baloney over rationality.
At the very least, I am strongly opposed to indoctrinating children with BS and potentially damaging beliefs, traditions and rituals (eg circumcisions, boys alone with priests, etc). If people want to join areligious clubs and teams, there are plenty out there. Adding in teachings from a book or two that have been outdated for a good couple thousand years is poor parenting imo.
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I often admire the organizing ability of religions, and lament that we aren't able to pull together and have the same effects as they are, without turning it into some kind of gimmick (church of Satan). It's probably the same reason that they have such an outsized impact on the American political process.
You know, I am super careful to make sure my kids don't get the blind unquestioning indoctrination, they go to public school, they have never been inside a church, they rarely if ever have interacted with people who go to church unsupervised by me, and still they have managed to bring home questions about god.
I've actually found the marvel movies, and planets very useful for this. I can compare the gods represented by the planets or Thor & Odin to jesus, Using names they recognize, talk to my kids about how a lot of these myths were developed to explain things we didn't understand like the motion of the planets, the cause of thunder and lightning or origins of earth.