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Raising Atheist Children

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beastly-rich rated 4 months ago
Not logically sound reasoning behind the concept. The best you can do is to teach critical reasoning skills alongside all the stuff that any good parent would. I would like to think that teaching children the ability to work out when they are being BS'd is a part of any good parents child raising skills.
F3nr1L rated 4 months ago
I don't like this. Teaching children "we're part of a specific group, it isn't very big, but everyone else is part of kind of small groups" is conducive to them being bigoted and arrogant. And the bit about acting especially nice? NONONONONO. There is no "especially nice". There is being yourself and acting as you want, and there is being fake. We have a hard enough time knowing ourselves without parental and cultural influence to present ourselves differently based on a situation. Seriously, that's a bad idea. Why make them think they should act even better around certain people? That'll just fuck them up. This is bad parenting.
sceptic rated 4 months ago
All children are atheists when they are born. Just teach them to think - they'll do the rest. Whether you agree with their views or not is immaterial.
GalloiseBlonde rated 4 months ago
I don't like the idea that children of atheists are called 'atheist children': it is their own decision to make. I don't like the concept of children being called christian or muslim or whatever when they are too young to have made the choice personally, and I don't like it here either.
alphabats rated 4 months ago
NO! BAD! Why does religion and bigotry persist? Because the beliefs of the parents are forced on the children! If atheists start doing this too, it'll be only a matter of time before atheists oppress and slander religious people with no reason.
coreyellis rated 4 months ago
why would anyone need suggestions.