Are you capable of talking to your kids if they had any questions about God?

Do you think that kids should adopt their parent’s viewpoints or learn for themselves?

Are your kids enrolled in a Sunday school program?

Do you object to other adults or parents of different faith talking to your children about God or religion?

Are you honest to kids about the Bible? Are there some passages that are unsuitable for children?

For non-religious households do you encourage questions from your children about religion?

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"There is one thing that organized religion is not qualified to teach and that is an individual's purpose."-GOD

I don't have any kids...I'm only turn 20 in a few months! But if I did have kids...

Are you capable of talking to your kids if they had any questions about God? Yes!

Do you think that kids should adopt their parent’s viewpoints or learn for themselves? Both!

Are your kids enrolled in a Sunday school program? I would enroll them in Sunday school!

Do you object to other adults or parents of different faith talking to your children about God or religion? Yes!

Are you honest to kids about the Bible? Are there some passages that are unsuitable for children? Not sure!

For non-religious households do you encourage questions from your children about religion? Yes!

Love,
Madeline

" Mommy , what happens when we die ? "
" We go to Heaven and live forever with the ones we love."

or

" Mommy , what happens when we die ? "
Nothing dear , you just turn to dust and never see me again or anybody once you die. "

" Hmmmn l think l'll take Heaven , thanks Mom, when does Church start ,l don't want to miss it " .

" Do you think that kids should adopt their parent’s viewpoints or learn for themselves? "
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How can l adopt my parent's viewpoints when l come from a Jewish -Catholic ancestry .

If l follow my mom's side l am Jewish,,

,,,and loving it .

lol

or on my other side l am Catholic .,,

,,, and loving it ,,

so what am l ? I know if l was in Iran ,,l know what l'd be ,,,

DEAD

lol,,

So you kind people, here is the golden question ??

Am l Jewish or am l Catholic .

Jewolic .

I'm in big trouble if l have to choose who l am .

If l go to Iran and say l am a JEWISH CHRISTIAN l will die , murder .

But if an Iranian comes here he gets a full free life without fear of being murdered because you are Islam or whatever .

So which Country do you want to preach about ,,,,

Dead in Iran or alive in America ????

When l was working in a Toronto Hospital as RN l dated this girl RNA from Iran . She looked Iranian and behaved with Iranian culture .

Her ways were more Spiritual than mine and her family back in Iran played a major role in her life .

She is Persian .

We danced and dined and she told me she was going to tell her dad about me and her dating .

Her dad is a Colonial in the Iranian Army .

Next time l saw her she told me she had told her dad via telephone that she was dating with [me] a Christian l assume lol or Jewish , whatever lol.

She told her dad l was a Christian .

So l asked her ,,,

What did your dad say to you when you told him you were dating me ?

And she said to me ,,,

"Oh , he started crying . "
And l asked ,, " really ?"
And she said "yes" .
There was a large lull of silence and we both knew the dating had to stop .

I was getting obscene and threatening phone calls etc too from source unknown which stopped as soon as l " broke off" with her .

Her Religion won over me and her Culture and Family also .

Anyway the Iran people are very emotional and sensitive and do believe what they are saying about their beliefs and aherance to their Religion at all costs.

Are you capable of talking to your kids if they had any questions about God?
I don't have kids, but putting myself in that situation I think I'll be able. I would like to instruct them about different views and beliefs, and then include mine so they can have a more wide scope.

Do you think that kids should adopt their parent’s viewpoints or learn for themselves?
I think they should learn from their parents viewpoints and then learn from themselves. But never adopt their parents viewpoints without reflection. They should draw their own conclusions, being it the same as their parents or their own.

Are your kids enrolled in a Sunday school program?
I never heard that term (English is my second language) I suppose you mean by it like a religious program to learn about their fathers doctrine or something. If that the case I would not send my kids, unless their mom wants or they by themselves want.

Do you object to other adults or parents of different faith talking to your children about God or religion?
I would not object at all, but of course I'll would like to be aware of what their telling and discuss it with my kids.

Are you honest to kids about the Bible? Are there some passages that are unsuitable for children?
I think I would show them the Bible as a literary and historic document. There some passage that may not be suitable, but if they're specifically curious about those parts I would try to explain them in PG as good as I can.

For non-religious households do you encourage questions from your children about religion?
Yes, I would.

It's fascinating to me how certain things, very deep, emotional things such as religion are intentfuly and dutifuly exposed to children well below any generally accepted 'age of consent' while other equally deep and complex things such as sex are kept, sometimes through desperate and irrational measures, from kids, generally until a medical explanation in late grade school or high/junior highschool. It strikes me as a bit hypocritical and non-sensical. Assuming an existence of an eternal soul the matters of this soul's future residence; paradise or eternal torture, are broached with kids who cannot even read or write, etc, without blinking an eye every single day in America.

A few years ago I helped out in the sunday school class of my youth and remember the teacher skipping over a section of verse (or large part of the story) within the topic we were presenting. The section/part skipped over/left out had to do with prostitution (sex), and this still boggles my mind to this day. Here we are indoctrinating these kids into a religion and at the same time censoring sexuality, something which is just as, if not more, integral to a healthy adult life.

Fortyone

ps; how about this; "Mommy, what happens when we die?" -- "I don't know sweetie, what do you think?"

Thats a good one.
Even if your going to tell them something, you can listen to them first.


That reminds me something, but for a kid is too cruel. But somebody once said to me "I don't know what happens when we die. Nobody has ever come back. I buried my father with a with an on cell on the coffin and told him to call me back, but he never did."

Are you capable of talking to your kids if they had any questions about God?

Absolutely.

Do you think that kids should adopt their parent’s viewpoints or learn for themselves?

We let our kids ask us when they are ready. The questions usually come sporatically. We think it is important for them to decide for themselves. My 17 year old daughter considers herself Wiccan, but when we talked about the nature of God, her own thoughts were more Deist! Love that kid. My 7 year old son just thinks of God as the cause of everything. Pretty Deistic as well! If either of them wanted to go with a friend to another religion's service, we would not be opposed.

Are your kids enrolled in a Sunday school program?

Nope.

Do you object to other adults or parents of different faith talking to your children about God or religion?

Adults, yes, if its solicitation. If an adult happens to be involved in a conversation where the subject becomes about God, then no.

Are you honest to kids about the Bible? Are there some passages that are unsuitable for children?

My kids have not inquired about it. There are some passages not suitable for adults!

For non-religious households do you encourage questions from your children about religion?

Not if they don't bring it up.

-TC