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Why do you teach your children your belief?

Muffled

Muffled

Jesus in me
9Westy9 said:
You make a good point. Personally I would't share my beliefs with any kids I may have in the future. Then again my beliefs don't involve going to church, praying etc. I guess, however, that the least you teach them as true, the more open minded they will be as they grow up? Just a hunch.
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That is like saying that you wouldn't teach your kids how to count to ten or the alphabet because they should have to figure it out on their own. The truth is that some lying teacher came along and taught you to disbelieve your former beliefs.
 
idav

idav

Being
Premium Member
Odion said:
Spot on, ChristineEs. :bow:


I see no difference between people forcing religion down their children's throats and people attempting to prohibit theists from passing on your religious beliefs to their children.

If someone doesn't want to teach his or her kid's religion, he or she doesn't have to do so - but what gives someone who has no belief, or a different belief, to dictate what I can and cannot teach my children religiously, simply because a few people misuse it, or to tell me I'm brainwashing my children?

That's the very definition of an *******, as far as I care. People should stop sticking their noses in other's private lives.
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I think this true but only to a certain extent. I don't like that many in the middle east teach there children misogyny and to carry around a rifle but who am I to say. Truly not all people will not condone teaching kids lies or violence so is there not a point one should give their opinion or intervene even.
 
9Westy9

9Westy9

Sceptic, Libertarian, Egalitarian
Premium Member
Muffled said:
That is like saying that you wouldn't teach your kids how to count to ten or the alphabet because they should have to figure it out on their own. The truth is that some lying teacher came along and taught you to disbelieve your former beliefs.
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How is it the same as not teaching children to count to ten? Counting to ten isn't a belief. And even if it was it's accepted by pretty much every single sane person who knows english.
 
Breathe

Breathe

Hostis humani generis
idav said:
I think this true but only to a certain extent. I don't like that many in the middle east teach there children misogyny and to carry around a rifle but who am I to say. Truly not all people will not condone teaching kids lies or violence so is there not a point one should give their opinion or intervene even.
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This is not religion, itself though. Religion can be used for ignorance and evil, and it can be used for good. People can read into religion what they want. It's like not speaking around your children in case you say '**** you' around them and teach them to do the same from a young age.

However - my experience has been that it's the moderately religious people who are usually criticised about bringing their kids up with religion because of the acts of a few super religious nutjobs.
 
Azekual

Azekual

Lost
DinChild said:
Last I checked, Christianity has a shaky reputation with morality. Better morality could be taught from just being a good human being. Or you could just read your kids The Three Little Pigs, or Humpty Dumpty (to quote George Carlin.)
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Which branch of Christianity are you referring to?
I want them to learn morality from Christianity simply because they wouldn't understand how to "be a good human". I also will teach my children to explore their faith.
 
Levite

Levite

Higher and Higher
9Westy9 said:
simple enough question. Why do/ would you teach your children your beliefs as truth instead of teaching them a way to find truth?
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I will teach my children Judaism because I believe that it is incumbent upon all Jews to pass along our tradition to our children, lest it die by ignorance.

That said, however, I will teach as I was taught: my parents always told me, "This is what we believe. Let's also learn what other people believe." And, like good Jewish parents, they also were unafraid to acknowledge, when I asked difficult questions, that the questions I'd raised were difficult, and there might not be satisfactory answers they could give me, because I had to find them for myself.

It is also worth noting that Judaism is not necessarily exclusivist when it comes to "truth" in beliefs and practices. Historically, the majority of Jewish authorities indicate that Judaism is the "true" way of the Jews, and non-Jewish peoples may have other valid "true" ways that represent their relationships with God.
 
Azekual

Azekual

Lost
Levite said:
... and there might not be satisfactory answers they could give me, because I had to find them for myself.
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For this sentence alone, you have my respect. Any parent who is willing to allow their child to search for the answers they want, thus allowing that child to develop an open mind and a very respectable intellect, is a good parent. Regardless of their faith or lack thereof.
 
pwfaith

pwfaith

Active Member
9Westy9 said:
Why do you teach your children your beliefs

Why do/ would you teach your children your beliefs as truth instead of teaching them a way to find truth?
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I do both :) I can't force my children to accept what I am telling them is true about our beliefs, so I teach them what we believe as well as how to find out for themselves.
 
pwfaith

pwfaith

Active Member
Splarnst said:
Aren't you assuming nobody does that? I know a lot people who teach their children how to think, not what to think. Mostly non-religious people, but I'm sure some liberal religious folk do the same thing.
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Hey! I'm conservative and we do that :)
 
sniper762

sniper762

Well-Known Member
lets define the word 'children' here. a 14 year old child can find out for hiimself; a 4 year old cannot. so, do you teach them "nothing" at an early age, then encourage them to want to "find out for themselves" when they become an older, more capable child?
 
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