nairbe wrote on Oct 11
th, 2011 at 8:26pm:
WOW Yadda you are so arrogant to quote the bible, the biggest work of historical fiction ever written.(and bible is in lower case for a good reason).
The whole point in atheism is that we don't believe in a god figure so this i know is for you impossible to understand but for an atheist god just simply is not a fantasy we can comprehend as it is just so insane we wonder why you are not certified.
I have never imposed my ideals on my children
though i accept that as their parent it is impossible not to have some influence by who we are over our children. Mind you as a ministers child myself i have always explained what events such as easter and christmas are with out the dopey rabbit and paedophile man in the red suit. I have no fear of different ideas and the diversity of religious ideals. As an atheist it simply does not matter. I don't have to hate the jews or the muslims or for that matter the most hateful of all the christians. Hell who else has been at the centre of all the most hateful and destructive campagnes of the last 2000 years.
In the end truth is all it takes and truth is what you hear from kids. So often young children will laugh at you when you tell them a bible storey, then say something like "that is such a silly storey, no one would believe that". Funny the rubbish adults will believe to justify our own need to justify our existence.
I find it difficult to believe that that is true.
If you never did, then it would be difficult to think of you as even trying to be a good,
nurturing parent.
Or alternatively, perhaps you feel that your [own] 'ideals' are worthless ?
And are not worthy of being imparted to your children ?
Which is it ?
1 Corinthians 13:11
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Funny you use such a passage.
As children i have a responsibility that they understand right and wrong, that they learn to socialise and that they gain an education. I offer them many experiences and help them understand values and ethics.
None of this requires religious faith and actually if it is to be taught properly it requires religion to be kept out of it. Why introduce a concept that contradicts itself and has a track record of harming children. It is quite unfathomable to me why i would trust a brainwashing organisation that have said "give me a child until they are 8 years of age and they will be mine for ever". A big concern that type of behaviour.
Children grow up and they can make there own decisions free of the coercion of adults as adults themselves. From there it is their life not mine and they are free to build that life as they see fit. No matter what they will always have my unconditional love.
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