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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your kids don’t agree with your religious views. As kids living under your roof, you may have been able to force it on them, but as adults they get to make up their own mind. You should be proud of them for not just blindly following and instead thinking about what they want for their own life.

My mom forced me to be Catholic. As a kid I saw issues within Catholicism that I did not like, but my mom somehow thought it would save me. All it did was give me Catholic guilt. I purposely did not raise my children in any type of religion and instead exposed them to life. If they choose to embrace a religion I have no problem with that, just like I will have no problem with them choosing not to embrace religion.

Accept your kids for who they are. If everyone could just accept the right of others to be different the world would be a much better place. I don’t have a problem with the choices others make so long as they aren’t impacted me. [/quote]

I reached my kids in the Lutheran Church after being raised in the Catholic Church myself. Neither of them is a believer or a churchgoer now.

I am comfortable with that because I gave them the foundation for developing their own religious and spiritual beliefs.  I viewed my job as exposing them to beliefs, practices, and a worldview, not indoctrinating them.

They understand what they reject, which is part of the point in my view.[/quote]

Don’t you find your own perspective a bit weird…and really just influenced by the belief that you have to give your kids religion…I guess because that’s what parents do?

Why did you see it as your job to exposing them to beliefs and practices or giving them any religious foundation?

It’s hard when as a parent you realize religion is just some weird construct to keep people morally centered (I guess?), yet really just a bunch of myths and stories.

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DP. I agree it's valuable to expose kids to beliefs and practices. That way they get to see all sides, the compassion and humanity, and also the issues. Then they can make informed decisions.

Otherwise they end up like XDH and his siblings, or like any DCUM anti-religion bigot really. Mocking and scoffing but having no idea what religion is really all about, good or bad.[/quote]

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