a question about religion Options

[Mulder]

i was thinking about why im agnostic. and i realized, its because i was raised in a christian community, not a jewish one. i never developed jewish ties.


so i was wondering, how do you feel about a child growing up in a community whose major religion is not their own? do you think its bad? do you think that children should grow up in their religious community only? what about public schools?

and i searched. i really did.

[*disco infiltrator*]

^ Yea, he gets me.

That wasn't the point of my post, which is why I was confused as to why you (Illumineering) posted your Stephen Hawking article. It had nothing to do with my post. This isn't the God thread. Why would I do that here?

The point is that people shouldn't MAKE a child believe a certain way and that this way is the only possibility for them and that all others are downright wrong. Parents tend to require that their children believe a certain way or follow a certain religion and dismiss any others later introduced to them, that the others are wrong and bad. This isn't true. No matter what religion you follow, there is no other that is necessarily wrong. They are just simply not you and do not follow the same logistics as you and do not have the same mind as you and have not been taught the same values as you, etc.

If you are taught that this is the way and the only way, that is what you will know. You will discredit any other thinking offright, just as the people in the FSMism thread discredited that, even with its striking similarity to Christianity. It was instantly ridiculous simply because it wasn't mainstream. They didn't know it and weren't taught it, so it was wrong off the bat.

And I'm not trying to attack Christianity either; it's just what I've observed since it's so prevalent where I live. It's the same with any other religion taught in the fashion that it is the only possibilty and all others are simply untrue, no ifs ands or buts.