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I have tried to explain how a parent with a faith does not instruct his children in that faith because it is convenient, but because he is convinced that it is every bit as important as preventing his child from falling over a cliff edge. That's how it is in our family. My wife and I are convinced of the truth revealed in the Bible. We bring up our kids accordingly. It is nothing to do with whether it's more convenient for us to take them to church as opposed to getting a babysitter in. As with all the issues facing children, their ability to understand that they even have preferences, and free agency, develops from a state of non-existence at point of birth, to being highly developed, if not entirely controlled, by their mid teens. Parents take decisions for their children when they are unable to take a balanced decision for themselves. When one of my children, aged 3, decided they didn't want to go out and staged a sit in on the hall floor, I took action appropriate to their age and their ability to understand - and simply carried them to the car. A similar situation with one of my children, aged 15, might involve some discussion as to their place in the family and their responsibilities that flow from that. I will let you know how that works out when I have a 15 year old. I, myself, gave up on church aged 14, when I was too big to be dragged out of bed on a Sunday. My parents accepted it, albeit reluctantly. They also accepted it when I chose to join an evangelical house church, aged 17, rather than recommit to the Church of England. Similar situations have occurred in my current church. The children are brought up in our faith. The teenagers are not compelled to continue in it. |
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Your last paragraph merely highlights precisely the points made by Dawkins. The choice is made to bring in the child to thinking in a particular way instead of saying from the start "there are many things you can believe in or not believe in. Let us examine them and when you are mature enough you can choose". |
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Simply talking about god (with a sense of belief) or regularly praying will probably 'indoctrinate' the child. ---------- Post added at 16:23 ---------- Previous post was at 16:19 ---------- Quote:
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Anyhoo. I'm off to cook a roast dinner now :) |
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He presents his argument as logical and reasonable, pointing out that he isn't proposing to deny free-thinking adults the choice to be religious if that's what they want. However, Dawkins is perfectly well aware that insulating all children from religion would, within the space of a single generation, relegate religion to such a small corner of society that it would go largely unnoticed, and many new adults would never even find themselves in a position of wondering whether it is something they should choose to investigate. To repeat - Dawkins is an evangelical atheist. His agenda is not to promote open, free choice, but to maximise exposure of his own world view while minimising those that compete with it. |
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Which is not how parenthood works.Children are raised according to the parents ethics and morals and then the child has the choice to reject them as they reach maturity ......exactly as Dawkins did |
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If you're suggesting that those criticisms apply to my active instruction of my kids in the Christian faith, then I reject the premises of your question - see above. |
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