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Originally Posted by Chris
With the possible exception of Guardian-reading households, families do not sit round the dinner table holding dispassionate seminars on comparative religion. Kids want to know what makes the world go round; every adult has a view on the answer to that question and every adult is free to offer it. Anyone who goes round the houses saying "some believe this, some believe that" will pretty soon be pestered with the response, "but what do you believe?" Actually, it's as likely to be "what do we [i.e. we as a family] believe?".
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Spot on. If one of mine decides they want to follow a particular belief system there are those who will either accuse me of pressurising them in to believing or that I should have done my bit to discourage such beliefs.
Madness.