do you guys want in the future your kids to be too religious?, example might be part of youth group. |
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 Mar 14 2008, 07:28 PM
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 Tick tock, Bill  Group: Administrator Posts: 8,764 Joined: Dec 2005 Member No: 333,948  |
QUOTE(Sulfur @ Mar 14 2008, 01:59 AM)  Religion comes from the heart. I would never force my children into anything. I want them to find for themselves what they believe in. Exactly. I was given the choice to choose what I wanted, and I was raised Mormon so I understand fully that it wasn't an easy choice to give. I've always appreciated that and will give my son the same type of choice (I'm not a religious person, but will absolutely support him if he chooses to be). |
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Mar 14 2008, 07:39 PM
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 vivacity Group: Official Member Posts: 3,183 Joined: Jan 2007 Member No: 495,247 |
perhaps not in my future children's generation, but maybe even way later, religion may or may not be as important. it still has a pretty major emphasis right now but comparing it to waaay back a few hundred years ago, religion is definitely not what it used to be. i'm open minded, i'll let my kids choose, that is if i have any. but i think that the decrease in the importance of religion can affect how future generations are going to think.
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Mar 14 2008, 07:42 PM
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QUOTE(stephinika @ Mar 13 2008, 11:08 PM) Agreed. I was stuck through a Catholic elementary and high school and it drove me a bit mental. same. i really wouldnt care what my children decided. |
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Mar 14 2008, 07:51 PM
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Hell no...but I want them to be holy when it comes to the 10 commandments haha
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Mar 14 2008, 09:40 PM
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 awestinnn Group: Member Posts: 624 Joined: Aug 2006 Member No: 460,069 |
I definitely won't force them into anything, but I would try and expose them to different religions and kind of help them find out what they want to or don't want to believe in. I got really messed up just because I've been raised as a Baptist just because my dad was. I thought I was Jewish for a while, but I don't really know anymore. But if they decided to devote themselves to a religiong, I wouldn't try and stop them or anything, or place limits on how they choose to practice it. That's ridiculous.
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Mar 14 2008, 10:47 PM
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 That's what she said. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 3,559 Joined: Apr 2005 Member No: 130,200 |
Honestly, that will be up to them. I'm buddhist but I believe in God and its probably cause my parents didn't force me to stay converted, they just let me be. I mean, I'm probably not gonna marry a buddhist person and they'll probably be Christian so I'll let them get baptised and all of that, but whether or not they want to continue with it. Thats all them.
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Mar 15 2008, 01:59 AM
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 cB Assassin Group: Official Member Posts: 10,147 Joined: Mar 2004 Member No: 7,672 |
"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."
- Dalai Lama |
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Mar 15 2008, 08:57 AM
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QUOTE(Sulfur @ Mar 15 2008, 02:59 AM) "This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness." - Dalai Lama Yeah but I think Dalai Lama was racist... Dalai Lama and his "the Hans are overrunning Tibet" speeches. Dalai Lama demanded that a specific geographical region of China would be declared off-limits to other ethnic groups on the basis of race. So... Dalai Lama holds no merit in "kindness". But does in racism and hatred. |
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