How Do You or How Would You Religiously Educate Your Children Now? (page 2)

minimus

I have a granddaughter that just now is beginning to talk. I have another grandbaby (a boy) due in July. As far as I know my daughter and husband has no intention to instruct their kids in a religious way. My daughter did voice some thought about it, though, so I don't know if or how they might subject their kids to the Bible or even Bible stories. Personally, I'm against teaching them any cultic beliefs but I'm not so sure on some balanced biblical info.

hamilcarr

I like some aspects of the catholic social justice teaching with its focus on helping the poor and the vulnerable, defending workers' rights etc. It comes pretty close to a superior moral standard which is absent in many other christian churches.

minimus

Catholic?

no more kool aid

It's been almost a year for us. I can't stand the idea of joining a church or anything of the sort. I think I've had a life times worth! As for my kids, right now working on being good people and showing them consequences to behavior (something I saw lacking at the KH).

jaguarbass

I wouldnt have children if I were always in my right mind.

Having said that I have a son who is now 35.

He was 9 when I escaped the tower. I pretty much appologised to him for all the bullshxt

he was exposed to with the witnesses.

My wife stayed in for 10 more years after I escaped and

my son had to go to at least 5 more years of the screw the brain sessions at the kingdumb hall.

Thats between him and my wife. I did tell him when he was 9 it was not the truth and that he and

we were caught in a spider web that might take some time to get out of.

I wouldnt have kids today or ever, because having been raised a witness, I was never

even prepared or equipped to take care of myself let alone another person.

It's like the movie the matrix you can take the red pill or the blue pill.

If your going to have kids you better take the blue pill and detach yourself from reality

and create your illusion and live there.

If I had a child to raise today, i would throw up the red pill, as in vomit, and take a bottle of blue pills

and raise my child as a Christian, maybe a baptist take him to church once a week and

send him to a Christian college.

I would get my child an education and teach him to trust in God but tie up his camel.

I would teach him to do everything he can to create and live the life he wants, and after he

has done all that to throw in a prayer.

I would teach him to keep it simple.

I dont think I could teach him to keep it simple because I dont know how to keep it simple.

I dont have a good answer to your question.

I spent 30 years in the tower,

then I spent 20 years reading the bible and being a christian.

I found out the bible and christianity is as phony as a 3 dollar bill or the watchtower society.

Like Solomon said in ecclesiastes its all vanity.

But you cant teach that to t 10-20 year old.

They have to find that out for themselves or prove it wrong themselves.

the bible says each person has to work out their salvation.

So no matter what religious persuasion you give to your child, it will be a spiritual kindergarden

if he takes the red pill.

And if he takes the blue pill. He's just another sheeple so why have kids?

So I guess I have to much information to have happy kids.

And if you cant share what you know with your children, why have children?

hamilcarr

Catholic?

I'm not a religious person in the traditional sense but I think many catholics are partners in promoting social justice.

"
Far too many Catholics are not familiar with the basic content of Catholic social teaching. More fundamentally, many Catholics do not adequately understand that the social teaching of the Church is an essential part of Catholic faith. This poses a serious challenge for all Catholics, since it weakens our capacity to be a Church that is true to the demands of the Gospel. We need to do more to share the social mission and message of our Church."
Sharing Catholic Social Teaching: Challenges and Directions
U.S. Catholic Bishops
http://www.osjspm.org/catholic_social_teaching.aspx

So are muslisms with similar commitments:

Islam encourages social justice

I think it is wrong for non-theists to take marginal movements like the IRA and Al Qaeda as examples of two religions that actually care about social justice and not about terror.

OnTheWayOut

I would teach my child the history behind Christmas and Catholic Saints holidays, along with the history behind patriotic holidays. I would teach my child to respect all beliefs, but I would honestly lean toward using documentaries as the child got older that expose the true history of the Bible and how archaeology doesn't support it. I would have to encourage my child to "question everything" religious, but not in a snotty nose-up kind of way. (Same would be true of politics.) More of a "what does the evidence show" kind of way.

My child would definitely learn all the things that Science has discovered (within reason of their interest in it) to let them see that there are fossil and archaeological finds that support a belief system that doesn't need a god. But I would also teach my child that most religious systems teach that God is loving and kind and that if I were wrong about God, they generally don't teach that a good person should be smited on the spot at some upcoming Day of Vengence. I wouldn't want my child to be easy prey for some fundamentalist group to swoop in and convince him/her that I have withheld "the truth" as Satan is my guide, so I would have to give the child room to develop their own understanding.

jws

I agree with Undercover.

I've told my kids some Bible stories, but I'm always sure to tell them it's a story some people believe. Others believe something different. I don't stress them or try to force them. I've also given them the basic principles of evolution.

They seem to have this God and heaven concept as it relates to death, that their nana has "gone to God". But not much else. I'm not sure where they got that. TV? Or non-JW family?

White Dove

As the Bible is such an integral part of our culture, I would want my kid to know the basic stories and lessons in it so as to be able to hold a conversation and not wonder who the characters are. I would definately raise them Wiccan, but they'd be free to make a choice, if any, on what to believe. I wouldn't force a belief system on them. As long as it promotes good health and good will, I'm on board with it for my kid.

drwtsn32

Pastafarian

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