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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I get where you are coming from, but [b]I really don't think it's appropriate to have your young child go around insisting that God does not exist.[/b]  It's obnoxious on several levels.  Your family has a right to believe this (mine does too) but it's a personal opinion.

If your child is being proselytized, the best thing to do is to teach him to change the subject.  "Can we talk about something else?"  "I'm really not interested, thanks."  Getting into a theological debate is not productive for adults and especially unproductive for children, who don't have the wherewithal or experience to understand that different beliefs are valid.[/quote]

It is not more obnoxious than insisting that God does exist.

In preschool, a couple of kids insisted to my child that God existed. When he said that he didn't agree and that our family doesn't believe in God or religion, he was advised that his entire family was going to hell.  The teacher had to break it up because my kid was one pissed-off 4 year old after the concept of hell was explained to him. They weren't friends after that.

My kids have learned to avoid the topic because uber-religious believers aren't nice about a disagreement. They also tend to avoid those kids  as friends or teammates because they aren't nice about disagreements on religion.

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