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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You had your chance to raise your children, now they are raising their own.

What drove me away from religion is the idea that "if you don't believe what I do, you will go to hell".  I just couldn't get this idea of Heaven as a reward for obedience, and hell as punishment, to mesh with the loving God everyone was preaching about.  I also couldn't imagine a loving God would sentence say, every Hindu in India, to hell.  [/quote]

Yes exactly. You only get to raise your own kids. Would you have wanted your parents to override your teaching your own kids?

My MIL feels we are not raising the children properly in the faith. We give precisely zero ducks. We even belong to a church! It's just a church that doesn't believe in Biblical inerrancy or in Christianity being the only true religion. She should realize how lucky she is that we even take them to church at all given our actual beliefs.

For her part, MIL tries to give them Bible lessons during her time with them, which goes over like a lead balloon with our tween/teens. All she's doing is alienating them and making them think she's no fun to be around.[/quote]

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