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[quote=Anonymous]OP, how would you feel if your children ended up as adults who practice a religion? Do you think there are good people who practice religion -- and if your children ended up practicing, how would you raise them to be a practitioner who also kept your values?

I'm an atheist although politically very different in outlook from you. What's most important to me is that my child grows up as a critical thinker who acts humanely in the world. If that path takes them toward religion, I'm ultimately okay with that, as long as it's freely chosen. And I wouldn't discourage religious curiosity at all (because *that* might backfire!).

Would this particular religion welcome you to attend services as an atheist married to a practitioner? If it were me, I might agree to go to one or two services to understand what's going on.

I'd also have some clear conversations with my spouse about how you would frame the beliefs with your child. Religions present their beliefs as truth -- how will you manage differences in your beliefs, your husband's beliefs, and the establishment religious beliefs? How will you discuss this with your child in a way that they can understand that is respectful to each different participant, and still allows your child to make up their own mind?[/quote]

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