IT's good to train a child when they're young to have diverse ideas, opinions and understandings. It is the total opposite of what the WTBTS wants from their children. They want their children to be taught that only the WTBTS is correct and everything they utter, even if total BS, is not to be questioned.
In the last four to five years I have read so much on history, prehistory, geology, religion blah de blah de blah, and in that reading I have also been non stop telling my husband and children every thing I have read and every diverse theory I have come across, so that in effect, they also have become widely read on the subject.
My youngest child goes to a Church of England School, even though we are non religious and I have put that down clearly on her information form. The school has no problem with that. They teach Bible, and other religions and only recently did I realise that a new teaching I will have to get into my 7 year old is TACT!!!
She knows about the possible history of the flood story of the Bible and the likely source of that story being the ending of the last ice age 10 000 to 15 000 years ago.. She also know another possible theory, is polar shifts and continental drift theory, causing ice to melt as continents shifted positions. She understands these as theorys and the Bible 'story' as that, a story used by ancients to explain, what to them was unexplainable.
So, we were given a lift to school yesterday by the Born Again Minister from across the road and his daughter who is in the same class. As we got out of the car, the Minister asked his daughter, 'so what will you be doing today?' She replied, 'We're doing Water!!!! And we're doing about the Flood and how God killed everyone on the Earth except for Noah and his family with a big Flood.'
My daughter turned to look at me and nodded her head in despair. Then she rolled her eyes heaven wards and gave a huge sigh!
This little 8 year old (going on 18) then came out with: 'I don't know! When will people finally understand about the end of the ice age, and how continents move and so do the North and South Poles and they affect the sea level. .......!' I tell you, it was one of those embarrassing moments! It was as if someone had pulled out a tape recorder and played back something I had said at the most inopportune time!
The Minister looked at me in shock! This bloke Bible bashes us every morning when he gives us a lift and takes every scripture as literal!!
'Absolutely!' I said in support and then shrugged! What else was there to say.
This morning he drove past us heathens without offering us a lift!