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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Indoctrinating your child in any faith is wrong, adopted are not.[/quote]
So, everyone should raise their child as atheist or agnostic, regardless of the family traditions that are important to them? I'm a liberal Reform Jew (I'm the NP a few posts above), and my DH is an atheist--raised atheist, by two parents who were raised Methodist. It's absolutely 100% fine with us if our DS, whom we're raising Jewish, ends up as an atheist, agnostic, or humanist, [b]because that means he's taking a critical, educated look at the world and making choices for himself.[/b] But we're raising him with the traditions (religious and non- ) that are important to us and our families. No one is giving up any cultural celebrations because we don't want to "indoctrinate" our child--and that means we celebrate the Jewish holy days in a religious way, though with an eye on humanism, and Christmas and Easter in a secular American cultural way. It's all good.[/quote]

If the mythology you are teaching your son cannot withstand a critical, educated look, then you shouldn't be teaching it as fact.  Teach it as tradition or one perspective among others, then it's all good. [/quote]

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