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Originally Posted by ResAlien
I’m far from religious but if you framed it that way you made your position very clear while pretending to remain neutral.
Personally I did something similar without the dismissive verbiage. Some people believe this, others don’t, you can decide which you’d like to pursue.
If she wanted to go to church with a friend I said ok go for it and we’d have a quick discussion about it when she got back. As she got older and more curious about my beliefs I’d share them but trying to remain truly neutral was my goal. It’s good for some people and bad for others, you gotta trust your children to make those decisions themselves you can’t do it for them.
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And the best way to prevent them from one day being indoctrinated by some religion or cult is to expose them to religion.
You don't have to take them to church but you can discuss things with them, like why one of their friends might wear the scarf, or a kippah. Or why some go to a church every Sunday or why some structures are called a mosque or a synagogue...simple things like that. Why some celebrate religion on Sunday while others celebrate on Saturday.
Or what different faiths believe in. The more information children have, the better the decisions they make.