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re: Raising a child in a non religious home with a very religious extended family
Posted on 12/30/14 at 2:04 pm to SlowFlowPro
Posted on 12/30/14 at 2:04 pm to SlowFlowPro
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in an ideal world, but not in reality
When has your religious affiliation affected you in any way in your professional career? Youre a lawyer right? How often does religion come up?
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Posted on 12/30/14 at 2:04 pm to dnm3305
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This is about convenience and nothing else.
this is about giving your kid the best chance as succeeding, which i believe means putting your kid in the best position to have social value
Posted on 12/30/14 at 2:05 pm to dnm3305
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When has your religious affiliation affected you in any way in your professional career?
shockingly, most people think i'm religious and if they find out i'm not, they still think i'm religious
Posted on 12/30/14 at 2:08 pm to SlowFlowPro
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this is about giving your kid the best chance as succeeding
wow. quote:
which i believe means putting your kid in the best position to have social value
Either you kid has it or he doesnt. He's either likeable or he isnt. He's either good at sports/hunting/cooking/talking to girls/relating to adults or he isnt. Religion has nothing to do with this. I stopped believing at an extremely young age and this had no affect on my social life at all and ALL of my friends are religious. One of my friends is extremely religious and has known I dont believe for a very long time and I was still asked to be his best man a few years ago. I have been the best man in three weddings in the last 5 yrs and all of the grooms believe in God and know I dont. You are making this a big deal when it simply isnt.
Posted on 12/30/14 at 2:09 pm to SlowFlowPro
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shockingly, most people think i'm religious and if they find out i'm not, they still think i'm religious
So, im assuming that means zero times.
Posted on 12/30/14 at 2:09 pm to SlowFlowPro
Most people assume dirty wops like us are religious.
Posted on 12/30/14 at 2:12 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
people just assume i'm part of their group. liberals think i'm a liberal. republicans think i'm a republican. religious people think i'm religious
Posted on 12/30/14 at 2:15 pm to Salmon
I've been an atheist for over a decade now, and my wife's family is very religious (her parents divorced and both got remarried - her stepmom is a Catholic heavy on angels, and the other 3 are evangelicals). My parents are Catholic. My wife has religion etched into her brain but also tends to believe a lot of what I tell her. But because of her parents, she will never come to my side. So she mostly ignores the subject of religion and refuses to discuss it. Since my kid was young, I always said religion is something he should decide for himself when he is an adult. However, he's 15 now and has been too heavily influenced by everything I say, so he is pretty much an atheist. It has no negative influence. The atheist groups I participate in on social media are private groups. Aside from a period of about one year a few years ago, I keep my atheist jokes and propaganda off of facebook. I don't think anyone except a couple of his closest friends know or care that he is an atheist. My in-laws have learned of my atheism over the past 2 or 3 years, they just try to pretend that I'm not. My father-in-law gathered everyone for "grace" before Christmas dinner at my house, and my side of the family has never done that. We all joined in though and it didn't bother anyone. My in-laws know that my wife and I don't take our son to church or participate in religion in any way, but they have enough respect of boundaries that they don't try to force their beliefs on him. I think most people feel the same way.
Posted on 12/30/14 at 2:16 pm to SlowFlowPro
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this is about giving your kid the best chance as succeeding, which i believe means putting your kid in the best position to have social value
Religion isn't necessary for social value.
My daughter is a gifted student, a varsity starter in basketball(as a freshman) and has tons of friends from several different cliques (a large portion of which are religious) and is also an atheist.
Posted on 12/30/14 at 2:24 pm to Salmon
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Salmon
Easy, just start believing in Jesus and save you and your daughters souls.
This post was edited on 12/31/14 at 8:30 am
Posted on 12/30/14 at 2:26 pm to Green Chili Tiger
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Religion isn't necessary for social value. My daughter is a gifted student, a varsity starter in basketball(as a freshman) and has tons of friends from several different cliques (a large portion of which are religious) and is also an atheist
Not possible. I was just told and insulted for the last 5 pages that my kids will be destined to be losers because I will not force them to engage in religion.
Posted on 12/30/14 at 2:29 pm to dnm3305
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I was just told and insulted for the last 5 pages that my kids will be destined to be losers because I will not force them to engage in religion.
I guess it's possible. If you're rasing your kid in Bawcomville, but if that's the case, you're not really worried about doing what's best for your kids to begin with.
Posted on 12/30/14 at 2:31 pm to dnm3305
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I was just told and insulted for the last 5 pages that my kids will be destined to be losers because I will not force them to engage in religion.
at least if your kids are atheists you won't have to worry about them getting teen pregnant
Posted on 12/31/14 at 8:24 am to The Dudes Rug
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Almost everyone is agnostic
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Lolwut?
Any reasonable person will tell you they dont know. Thats agnosticism. You have agnostics and liars. Because no one on earth know for a fact either way.
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