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Originally Posted by redforever
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.
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My mother was raised in a home where her mother was a devout Christian. When my mother had us 3 kids she soon started taking us to Sunday School while she attended services. After a few years my brother rebelled and fought to not go and my sister and I rode his coat tail and in the end she stopped taking us.
That said I did attend an Evangelical Church in my 20's. I was curious and wanted to learn why my grandmother and to a lesser extent my mother believed there was a God. I left 16 years later having serious doubts that a God exists.