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Originally Posted by lozen
The key is you get them young and teach them about a higher power with books of fiction. Slowly you wean them off Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny but keep telling them they will go to an evil place forever unless they worship and give 10%. Worked on me for 40 years.
Imagine if you could not teach religion till a person was an adult?
How you can believe that's the guy God choose ? Slim pickens
My son's march towards atheism was unguided by my hands. Any time he would bring up things like hell, or heaven, or god and the devil etc, I would respond with something like "Well what do you think about that." And he would tell me what his friends had been saying and I would say "Thats a really interesting way to look at it, does that make sense to you?" And he would most times say "Im not sure" or "I dont know." And I would say "Some of the coolest things about the world around us is that very often, we dont know how or why something is, so we look for answers."
Hes eleven now, and on the fast track to getting deep into the sciences. He wants to be an astrophysicist. We are taking our first trip to LA in a couple months and he might be more excited for the Griffith Planetarium than he is for Disneyland (maybe, they are probably a toss up right now.)
Watching him discover and explore and want to know more about the world HAS to be more rewarding than filling your kid's head with a bunch of garbage and watching them repeat it back to you with no congitive thought.