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[quote=Anonymous][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]
PP you quoted. That's actually the point. Judaism prizes education [i]because[/i] it forces people to take a critical look at the world. There are whole books in Judaic study dedicated to recording rabbis' aeguments about the stories and commandments. Certainly, different branches of Judaism look upon this differently, but we're of the sort that teaches that the Torah stories are just that: fables and myths written to teach lessons. That doesn't take anything away from the culture or traditions. [/quote]

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