I wanted to get your opinions of religion choosing in mixed religion relationships. For us it's not that big of a deal, neither of us are "practicing", and I pretty much consider myself agnostic anyway, but I just wanted to get some other view points on the subject.
Thats actually what we were thinking, I just wanted to know what other people thought as well. We're probably going to give her a small dose of each, but not force it or anything...
My son, (17 today) has been to shul, pagan circles and Hare Krishna Kirtans. he's interested in Buddhism, Norse Mythology and is a practicing agnostic Universalist.
i was raised that way , but i was if i had kids ever , was thinking of if they want to explore they will have the books and ability to go to local things and if not finding a way for them to go to things as long as it harms none and isnt some thing that will lead to them being killed by some serial killer
my son is only 3, so most church events are playful, but as he gets older, i plan on introducing him to many religions, and keep it completely open for him, and provide education on any religions he wants to explore.
that is what i want to do , i do want to at lest when and if we have a kid , i want to take them to some native things , when they are old enough to understand that and japanesse so that they will at least understand were there parents are comeing from , oh and i would read stories of diffent cultures to them at night
religon is not what i am about i am about he sprirt and if the kid gets into the war then that is there ways not mine it wil all work out
my daughter's school delves extensively into world religions and practices. they're really big on sociology. i'm a christian, though. so these things just sorta come up.
Thats cool, my schools were never like that. Fuck, until like grade four, it was pretty much all bad stuff about jews. Luckily I wasn't that impressionable...or maybe just a rebel lol
I grew up with my mother forcing my brothers and I to go to church, and to Catholic schools (where we were all bullied), and now that we're older, NONE of us are Catholic. We grew to hate it very quickly. My older brother's an atheist, and my younger brother and I are Wiccan. That said, my other half is a Satanist (which isn't exactly what people think it is). We're going to have a Wiccan Naming Ceremony for our son, but not a baptism, so when he grows up he can pick his own religion, whichever one feels right to him (just please, don't let him become a Christian! No offense to Christians)
Mankind is the cause of most wars, religion is just an excuse. Religion convinced the world that there's an invisible man in the sky who watches everything you do. And there's 10 things he doesn't want you to do or else you'll to to a burning place with a lake of fire until the end of eternity. But he loves you! ...And he needs money! He's all powerful, but he can't handle money! [George Carlin, from album "You Are All Diseased"] I grew up in an extremely christian household. Both parents were active leaders in the church, and like Moro said, my brother and I were forced to go every sunday. As a child I learned that it was human nature to sin, and that all sinners were doomed to die and eternal torment in the pits of hell. Great thing for children to learn. All we have to do to not burn in hell for all eternity is cut off any body parts that might make us sin, (If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off! [book of mark, 9;43]) and live all alone as a limbless lump far from society, but wait, aren't impure thoughts supposed to be the same as actually doing the sin? We should all be limbless vegetables! I understand that the teachings are suppose to help us all better ourselves and make society more peaceful and everyone should just get along, but from the books I have read and the different major religions I have studied, the teachings are all the same, or close enough for comparisons. A lot of these religious wars seem to boil down to "It's pronouneced potato Not pototo! I will kill your whole society!" I would like to teach my children to be caring and respectful for the universe and all of its inhabitants, but at the same time not to get walked on. I want them to have their own opinions and ideas, and follow through with them. I want them to learn to live in peace, yet fight for what they believe in, not for what other tell them to. I could go on and on, but to sum it all up quickly, I want my children to have compassion in ther hearts and wisdom in their brains.
Very well said Hippylandscaper.. I couldn't say it any better than that. I myself was raised Catholic than when my grandpa died (he did 60 years in the catholic service) my aunt took over, my aunt became Christian well before he died but still played the sunday service for him. She got me going to the Christian chruch saved baptised all the belief crap etc. You will rot in the fire if you do not tithe or you do not read thy bible or pray etc. What a bunch of bull donkers . I started questioning a whole bunch of things because if people put a whole lot into your brain and brain wash you how can you choose what you want to believe for your own good ?? right now i'm sitting on the fence with the stake up my rear. not literally but i have a lot of christian friends telling me all these things and i just want to scream its very hard to just say NO!!
I'd never force feed religion to my kids, countless relatives have tried feeding that shit to me, I understand religion and I'm not opposed to it, but a lot of it doesn't sit well with me. I was talking to my dad the other day and he said the only reason I went to catholic school was because they have better teachers than public schools.
:iagree: Who knows, maybe you could be one of the very few families to count members from three different religions!
no shit? i was pretty lucking when i was really little. i lived on the base in navy housing. VERY interacial. but the landscape turned awfully beige by the time i got to high school. it was mainly various asian nationalities around and latinos. still more interesting than many suburbs, though.
no one in my family went to church before me. i started actively seeking a chruch to attend when i was nine. i had to ask my mom for permission to go. lol. she never understood it. but then my dad decided to start going, too. he found this amazing little church filled to the rafters with phd's, authors, and doctors of philosophy and world religions. man, sunday school was AWESOME. there was one reverend, though, who would rub me the wrong way. he was more an evangelical sort, i guess, you'd call it, and he firmly believed that the devil put dinosaur bones into the ground to shake the faith of christians. he didn't last long.
I'm also a recovering catholic ;-) We are raising our children in the Unitarian Universalist fellowship. We love that it provides community and spiritual support AND promotes the persuit of individual religious/spiritual truth. We go to church with buddhists, athiests, humanists, pagans, liberal christians, daoists, wiccans, etc, etc. I teach in the religious education program for young children and it's wonderful (IMO)
