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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll give a slightly different perspective, OP. A friend was raised by a lapsed Catholic family and never learned a thing about religions. We both agree that each person should make a personal choice about religion, but friend will say that being raised with no exposure effectively took that choice away from him. He feels that as an adult it is now a bridge too far.

So he feels that the children should be raised in a faith and attend religious education, so that when they reach the age of confirmation and ultimately adulthood, the choice is 100% their to make with sufficient knowledge to guide their decision of faith. In the end, if they decline to practice a faith, they still have a decent knowledge of biblical literature, which is a great education in and of itself, and can also contribute to discussions and debates about religion in a meaningful way. This friend always feels lost in such discussions because he is smart enough to realize that he doesn't quite understands what people are talking about.[/quote]

Your friend can take a course in Biblical literature any time and not feel cut off.  He could send his kids to a Unitarian church where they learn about all religions and are not indoctrinated into any one religion.

There are lots of ways to learn about religion without being a member of a particular denomination.[/quote]

He actually disagrees with that approach, although the Unitarian approach might cover that. But you cannot get from a class when you get  from living for a while in a community of faith because there is much more to it than book learning. He gets that.[/quote]

I think I understand -- there's a culture involved in attending church that is not available when reading or attending an academic class. The potential downside, is that the culture may include teaching beliefs as facts that must be accepted to avoid dire, eternal consequences.[/quote]

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