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Ugh, I should have known this would turn into a religion war.  Why DCUM?  It was one person, one person doesn't represent an entire faith or lack of.  My husband is atheist, I consider him to be a good person.  He can be a pain in the ass and get a little full of himself but, he is a good person.  I have atheist friends who could care less about their children watching a non-religious episode of Veggie Tales.  I have Christian, Muslim, Pagan, Orthodox Jewish friends who would not act like this woman.  I wasn't making any statements about any religion or atheism.  Nothing.  I was simply stating my frustrations with this singular situation with this singular woman.  No big anti-religion/anti-athiesm statements from me.

DH grew up Catholic, has been Atheist since college (as happens often).  I was raised Orthodox, my family still practices.  I consider myself a Jew by heritage and traditional.  The children and I practice different aspects of Judaism for traditional purposes, but no...we don't normally attend any services.  We also celebrate Christmas and Easter as per request of my Inlaws.  So, my children are exposed to numerous religions and that's ok with me.  If my child were to choose to practice any religion I would be fine, as long as they were happy.  (Although I would not be thrilled if they followed an ultra conservative patriarchal religion...but I doubt that would happen.)  Anyways, my point is I understand not all families are as open with different religions as mine.  I can understand why a parent would be upset with me, but she didn't let me even defend myself.  I wouldn't show anything religious to a child I did not know well, my son was simply singing one of the songs "I Love My Lips" and her son was curious about where it came from...nothing religious about that song or any other songs on the 15 minute DVD.

There is my peace.[/quote]

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