Parents out there.What do your children identify as with religion or anti-religion? Just curious. My four are 2 agnostics One athiest and one that jumps from religion to agnostic
At seven yo the young fella said "I'm not doing RE anymore. It's silly." We were so proud.
My oldest son, who is 22 identifies as an atheist. My youngest son, who is 19 Identifies as agnostic.
I have a transgender 12 boy, he believes in a higher power, but not religion. He sees must religions as silly. I never pushed one way or another, just gave open and honest questions. Sometimes the answer is I don't know. I don't know is okay to say to your kids
Hello idlopalev. My name is janis. I'm 43. I was adopted at 16. From birth to age 11 my grandparents took me to church every sunday. When my parents and siblings moved we stopped going to church. When I was 16 my adoptive parents gave me a choice. I decided on nothing. I have 4 siblings... 10. 9. 9. & 5. One is a catholic. One is into buddha. One is undecided, ggggets 5. . One doesn't believe at all. Everyone is different.
My boyo doesn't think about it....but it won't surprise me if there is a higher power in his future...and I am fine with it, if he needs that boot strap to pull himself up with...
I am a horrible father. All 4 of mine are southern baptists who attend church regularly. I am the only Buddhist.
Haha.
My daughter is 8 and hasn't asked too many questions about it. My answers so far have been fairly academic. I believe in giving her information and letting her make up her own mind.
My kids were christened in the Episcopal church that their father attended. I went once in a while, but when I finally came out of the religion closet, they were very young. I did not expose them to any religious practice, or my pagan rituals. As they grew, they were exposed to my Central Illinois conservative, religious friends and family, and their friends at school. My oldest one is atheist/pagan, like me, even though I never exposed her to it. She is the most like me though. The younger two, went to church with their friends and were religious for their entire lives. I figured that they needed to follow their own paths, when they figured them out. I am a liberal, feminist, wild woman, and so is my daughter, and my ex husband was very conservative, so they followed their dad's example.
I try to teach my 6 year old boy reality. I try to explain religious/pagan holidays as best I'm able, explaining what some people believe. I tell him what I believe, but that I think it's up to him to decide what he thinks is true.
That's an interesting question. I am long separated from my 12 year old son's Mom. She is the custodial parent, and she seems to be pushing him towards religion. The are limits to what I can do about it. But in reality I have decided to leave it alone.
I raised my children with facts and music.I answered every question they asked me, with what I believe to be the truth about 'god'. I also stressed to them, that we never enforced our 'belief', on anyone with violence. Nothing enforces 'god's will' like violence.
I have 6 adult children. (Sorry for contributing to overpopulation. I was deluded, lol). 1 believes the bible, 3 are non religious, and 2 are full-blown atheists. And none of them are having big families
What's the problem with intelligent people having children? NOT having children leaves the world to Muslims and other religious fundamentalists by default. You should feel good about having six children. Good for you! One of the problems with atheism is that it tends toward liberalism by default and living a selfish life-style devoid of children. By all means DO NOT encourage your children to forgo marriage and building families. Such a path can only be called degeneracy.
I have a 12 year old daughter who is a Christian and gets really upset (to the point of tears) if I talk about my non-belief or anything that even slightly contradicts what she’s been indoctrinated into by everyone else she knows. She won’t listen to me at all when it comes to this stuff.