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re: Kafka welcome - Conflicting Beliefs and your Children
Posted on 8/23/14 at 12:52 am to Tigah in the ATL
Posted on 8/23/14 at 12:52 am to Tigah in the ATL
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my children were raised to make their own decisions
That's what I hope to accomplish. Do you have any tips on how to instill this in you kids? It's just at a young age I already see her singing songs that are religious in nature. That sticks with a person.
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Posted on 8/23/14 at 12:52 am to lsunurse
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Nor do we tell others they believe in fairy tales.
Or call them morons without brains, or brainwashed sheep.
Na, some of y'all just like to say we are going to spend eternity burning in hell.
Posted on 8/23/14 at 12:53 am to vuvuzela
quote:Quoting me is the surest way to get your thread whacked, you banned, and -- depending on which mod is on duty -- all your assets confiscated and perhaps your entire family deported
Per Kafka
Posted on 8/23/14 at 12:54 am to NATidefan
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Well then you have a very loose interpretation of the Bible. Especially Genesis.
There are a lot of good reasons to dismiss the authority of the Bible, but this isn't one of them. It's pretty easy to simply call the creation account allegorical, especially since it is essentially a mishmash of Sumerian creation stories taken on during the Babylonian exile.
Not to mention that the largest denomination of Christianity on earth openly accepts evolution.
Posted on 8/23/14 at 12:56 am to vuvuzela
Trust your children to make up their own minds, like you did.
Posted on 8/23/14 at 12:56 am to NATidefan
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some of y'all just like to say we are going to spend eternity burning in hell
Those people are the ones that make the rest of us Christians look bad.
I just hate non Christians thinking that just because I'm a Christian...that I'm supposed to act perfect and never cuss or judge someone or be rude to others. When I'm human and far from perfect and while at times I do try to do my best....I'm still prone to making a huge mess of things and letting my personality defects get the best of me.
And...just because I'm Christian...doesn't mean I know every single answer to all the questions thrown at me about the specifics of Christianity. Things that no one on this side of Earth could ever possibly know.
This post was edited on 8/23/14 at 12:58 am
Posted on 8/23/14 at 12:57 am to vuvuzela
quote:treat them like their opinions matter, and treat them like adults as soon as they are
Do you have any tips on how to instill this in you kids?
Posted on 8/23/14 at 12:58 am to lsunurse
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I just hate non Christians thinking that just because I'm a Christian...that I'm supposed to act perfect and never cuss or judge someone or be rude to others. When I'm human and far from perfect and while at times I do try to do my best....I'm still prone to making a huge mess of things and letting my personality defects get the best of me.
And...just because I'm Christian...doesn't mean I know every single answer to all the questions thrown at me about my specifics of Christianity. Things that no one on this side of Earth could ever possibly know.
Bravo.
Posted on 8/23/14 at 12:59 am to NATidefan
quote:you are practicing the wrong kind of Christianity
Cough: bullshite Cough: At least with Christianity.
Posted on 8/23/14 at 12:59 am to lsunurse
Hell isn't only a Christian belief. Let's trry and keep religion out of this so it doesn't get whacked I'm talking about your family's beliefs impacting your children in a negative way.
Posted on 8/23/14 at 12:59 am to Roger Klarvin
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Not to mention that the largest denomination of Christianity on earth openly accepts evolution.
Well everyone likes to rewrite the Bible the way they see fit, isn't surprising now is it.
Posted on 8/23/14 at 1:00 am to vuvuzela
How do you think your family would react if you gently told them your beliefs?
Posted on 8/23/14 at 1:00 am to NATidefan
quote:I thin you are wrong & if that's what it takes to be Christian, only dumb people will believe
No I think all Christians should believe in those things.
Posted on 8/23/14 at 1:01 am to vuvuzela
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Hell isn't only a Christian belief. Let's trry and keep religion out of this so it doesn't get whacked I'm talking about your family's beliefs impacting your children in a negative way.
You were exposed to those ideas and resisted them. Why not give your children the autonomy to make their own decisions about what they believe rather than try to shield them from particular viewpoints?
Posted on 8/23/14 at 1:01 am to vuvuzela
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your family's beliefs
quote:kafka -- the first one -- would proud of this Catch-22 rule to keep religion out of religion discussions
Let's trry and keep religion out of this
Posted on 8/23/14 at 1:02 am to vuvuzela
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Let's trry and keep religion out of this so it doesn't get whacked I'm talking about your family's beliefs impacting your children in a negative way.
Well then, what beliefs? I think you have to attack each type differently. Like for example, my sister doesn't want my mom to give her son junk food. So she tells her stop giving him junk food. If she doesn't, she bitches my mom out.
Posted on 8/23/14 at 1:02 am to Kafka
quote:this thread is supposed to be without you.
Kafka
Posted on 8/23/14 at 1:02 am to vuvuzela
Atheist here. For me, it was more of a gradual thing. I never really enjoyed going to church as a kid, and always felt like there was something I was missing. My dad is not religious (not an atheist though) and never went, so I would always ask "How come Dad doesn't have to go?" I think my parents knew for a while, so I didn't really have to say. They've been great with it. My extended family is pretty religious though, so I play along on family visits.
I used to be against religion in general, but now I have the mindset that if it works for you and you're not hurting others physically or emotionally, then go for it.
ETA: Don't have children yet, so I can't answer that part.
I used to be against religion in general, but now I have the mindset that if it works for you and you're not hurting others physically or emotionally, then go for it.
ETA: Don't have children yet, so I can't answer that part.
This post was edited on 8/23/14 at 1:07 am
Posted on 8/23/14 at 1:02 am to lsunurse
quote:as long as they don't decapitate him he still comes out ahead
How do you think your family would react if you gently told them your beliefs?
Posted on 8/23/14 at 1:03 am to lsunurse
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How do you think your family would react if you gently told them your beliefs?
They would think I'm going to hell. haha. To be honest though, they aleady know how I believe, and they feel sorry for my child because they are afraid I'm not going to teach her in the ways they were brought up, very conservatively.
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