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would you be upset if your child grew up to be religious?
Vast_Girth
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My son is 5. We have never really mentioned anything about religion based to him before, but he said the other day that "god" put babies in peoples tummies. Obviously he is only 5 and will his reasoning skills are not developed yet, but it did make me think.
I would be quite happy with any pretty much any lifestyle choice my son made, but I cant help but feel if he started to waste his life like that, worshipping a non-existant deity, I would feel I had failed in his upbringing.
I would be quite happy with any pretty much any lifestyle choice my son made, but I cant help but feel if he started to waste his life like that, worshipping a non-existant deity, I would feel I had failed in his upbringing.
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However to have no religious background and then turn to it, you either have to have had something majorly go wrong with your life, be of low intelligence or seriously lack any critical reasoning skills.
Satanism however is not relevant. Its not a religion and is actually quite a sensible thing if you look into it.
Same with political views. I wouldn't be so happy if they turned out to be a UKIP supporter.
That's an opinion I don't agree with!
People are free to believe in anything they wish and having a faith in something when all evidence suggests otherwise sometimes gives people strength to cope with life!
Anyway, isn't this simply going to turn into another one of the thousands (it seems) of anti religion threads already on here. Do a search and take your pick, all the opinions that will now be aired over the next (probably) 20 + pages has all been said before and recently!
Satanism is nothing,its a club,and its values are sensible,but then again,its value are the norm in this life.....so its NOTHING!!!
I don't share a lot of the beliefs my parents do, so I wouldn't expect my children to share mine (I followed my parents in atheism but my political views for example are very different. I would hope they don't see that as a failing, they are glad I'm sure that I am capable of deciding my own views).
I would be sad if they developed extreme views which blinded them to other things, though. That would go for any kind of views though, religious or otherwise.
I'm sure he'll be fine.
If your child was a grown up you would just have to learn to live with their beliefs, You could always disown them but then you're going to have to live with the knowledge that you would be a crap and intolerant parent who is no better than a religious parent who cannot accept atheism in their child.
The other alternative is to force your views on them while still a child and hope they don't rebel.
...or experience something that convinces you.
Obviously i would never disown him or anything melodramtic like that and of course i would never stop him following his own path. To be honest its very unlikely i would say anything, just keep i to myself. I think 'disappointed' is probably a better word than 'upset'
I'd sit him down quietly and gently coax the name of the person/s that had been filling his head with such nonsense.
I would then "have a word" with the perpetrator.
If I fostered a child who was religious though, I wouldn't be upset, as long as they were a good person and kept those beliefs to themselves.
Waste his life??? Really?
Absolutely. As long as that path makes him happy and it is what he wants from his life, whatever that path is, it cannot be a waste.