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you'll be "called to task?" by God?  do you mean you're indoctrinating your kids with beleifs you have no evidence for because you're afraid that if you don't, then you'll be punished in the after life by God?  If what God wants people to believe is so good for them, why does god have to threaten loving parents to get them to teach their kids about it? [/quote]

I am not the pp to whom you are responding, but I am a person of faith who teaches my kids about God and we most certainly do not teach OR BELIEVE that God is going to punish us. You do realize that not everyone of faith believes the same thing?[/quote]

Yes, of course I do.  I know it's very common for people to pick and choose among the tenets of their religion a and decide what suits them and then decide what they will teach their children to believe.  I'm glad religious people do that, when it means teaching children a less punitive form of religion.  [/quote]
Boy are you off the mark. It's not picking and choosing. Its a matter of people having different interpretations. Geez[/quote]

So people just make up aspects of God that the want to believe in and want their children to believe in?  Sounds like picking and choosing to me[/quote]
I get how you feel that is picking and choosing but ok. Just like different economists can look at certain data and interpret it in different ways. It's not picking and choosing, it's INTERPRETATION, which is different. I'm not really arguing or even debating here. I believe in God and teach my offspring the same. You do not believe, and that is fine. [/quote]

OK - let's not quibble over words.  You interpret God (let's say) as kind and gentle supreme being who would never send anyone to hell despite the dogma and doctrine of Christianity.  Another parent teaches their children that God is kind and gentle and also gets angry and sends people to a fiery hell if they displease him - as described in the bible and in Christian doctrine.  This is the same god -- maybe even two families going to the same church, but with two very different "interpretations."

It could also be interpreted as different beings defined by  parents with different beliefs and child-raising philosophies to handle their children in different types of ways.

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I hate to even mention this -- but the Bible does not say God "sends" anyone to hell. It says the wages of sin is death, sorta like people send themselves there. Anyway -- still interpretation, especially when it comes to the definition of "hell".[/quote]

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