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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Read Bible stories to them if you want to teach them about the Bible, and then let them decide what they want to believe. My children are encouraged to question everything and to make their own decisions. They have heard all of the Bible stories, they know about evolution, they have been encouraged to read about every belief, no matter what it is. My oldest son and my 15 year old daughter are agnostic, and have been for a few years. [b]How and what they believe is their business, not mine[/b].  [/quote]

Up to a point, yes.  I bet you'd be pretty upset if they believed Neptune lived in the sea and that sleeping beauty was awakened by a handsome price and lived happily ever after.[/quote]

Not PP, but we read some stories from the Bible right along with Greek mythology, Egyptian mythology, etc. 
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But do you encourage them to "believe" some stories over others or do you approach them all as stories?[/quote]

How you can encourage to believe or not to believe to Greek mythology? Do you make the same comment about believing and not believing after reading Red Riding Hood story? I leave it to the child fantasy to live with that story, to think about it, to fantasize about this. This is how children develop. [/quote]

what about the Bible stories? do you encourage them to believe or disbelieve those?[/quote]

No, we approach all the stories the same. We read them and we discuss them. Doesn't matter if this is a story about Nemo, Muhammed, or Noah's ark. I cannot imaging reading to my kids one of the fairy tale stories and then tell them: "You know, there are some people who believe that the prince Charming actually kissed the Snow White. But we are intellectual professionals with PhD and we do not believe this". The stories are the stories. All of them have a learning point of wisdom. Let children figure out what it is. [/quote]

How about something like, "You know,  no one believes that Snow White and Prince Charming are real people who actually met and fell in love, but some people do believe that God spoke to Muhammed and that God sent his son to die for their sins."[/quote]

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