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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand why posters who don't agree with organized religion feel the need to post and demonize those who do.

Are you trying to enlighten those of us who have a different approach to raising our children? Do you even have children? Why did you stop at the religion forum to make your stand in defense of the children? Why not find a food forum where you can tell people they are depriving their kids by not giving them gluten or how they should let children make their own dietary decisions.

I'm being a bit facetious but am also asking honestly.

Why is it so important to say something that is not only unproductive but, at times, mean-spirited? There are those who are genuinely offering thought-provoking positions and I appreciate your maturity, but some others ...

And I find it interesting that those who are self-proclaimed agnostic or atheist -- the ones who are often humanist by default -- are some here who are most belligerent to other people. Why is that? Aren't you supposed to put your faith in your fellow humans.[/quote]

I am the PP who was raised in a very religious environment. I don't think I've said anything that could remotely be characterized as demonizing. But to answer your question generally, a lot of atheists are actively rejected and wounded by their religious families because they, at a fundamental level, can't believe. A lot of them had to go through enormous pain to come to grips with their lack of faith. Even those with loving parents (and mine were) go through periods where they think there is something fundamentally wrong with them because they can't believe what their parents clearly think is what's critically necessary to living a loving, peaceful, joy-filled life. I remember being scared at night that I was going to hell, and my parents never once said anything about hell to me. But I read enough and understood enough about religions to know that some did, and who was I to say I wouldn't go? As an adult I reject that, of course. But it was scary as a child. As adults, I can see how some would be motivated to try to protect other kids from what they went through. Of course, kindness is always the best way to teach, and I agree hostility isn't going to work. But as far as your question, that is my answer.

I have children. I raise them without religion, but we also teach them about religion and let them know it will be okay with us if they decide they believe in god or gods, so long as they're kind and compassionate about it. I feel comfortable rejecting religions that espouse cruelty; cruelty is not justified because of a belief in a god. [/quote]

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