Physophical Question of the Day:

[ickaimp]

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Physophical question of the week day:

A while back, one the kids I watch was doing their spelling homework, making sentances with their spelling words. The sentance the kid came up with (and he was rather proud of this) was:

"We burned the church down to the ground."

I was kind of horrified by this, and steered the sentance to something else, also using the spelling words. But he couldn't understand why I was disturbed by this sentance and I couldn't figure why he wasn't. Until he said that he'd never been to one. To him, a church was just a building. ~_~

-Since his father is supposedly bringing them up Christian, that's for him to teach them about and one discussion I'm not getting into. I'm there to make sure homework gets done.

But I was talking to my Dad about this and he made a comment that has had me thinking. He thought that it was a pity that the kids weren't going to some sort of church, because religion tended to be one of the major things that shaped one's morals and sense of right and wrong.

I've been kind of pondering that ever since... Just how much does religion reflect on a person's sense of morals or is something that is more dependant on the person?

er, does that make sense? ._.

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Comments

[quiltrebel.livejournal.com]

Billions of people on earth live well without knowledge of Christ. As for my kids, it's up to their dad to teach them, because I'm not going to educate them in a faith I don't agree with. But really, who is it hurting if they don't know who the "man on the stick" is? If I teach them about Christ, they will hear about his wife and child and how he was nothing more than a mortal man with good ideas.

[ickaimp.livejournal.com]

Pause. Hold on.

Take the religious connotations out of it.

He had No Problems with Burning Down A Building.

The fact that it was a Church was neither here nor there, it just meant that it was a place that had nothing to do with him. So therefore it was okay to burn, because it didn't have any sort of impact or impression on him.

It could have just as easily been a Post Office or a Shrine or a Temple or a Restaurant or a Synagogue, it's all the same in his eyes. He doesn't know what 'Holy' or 'Sacred' means, much less 'Christian' or 'Pagan'. They're just buildings that people go to.

Hence my previous statement about Ignorance. As the saying goes: "Ignorance leads to Fear. Fear leads to Hate. Hate leads to- (fill in ending of your choice)"

The reason that religion came into it was because I was questioning my Dad's comment about 'Religion helping to define Morals', I'm trying to see both sides of it. I love my Dad, but that doesn't mean I automatically agree with everything he says.

How you raise your kids is your business. I'm not there to teach them personal beliefs or religion. I'm there to make sure that they're safe and that homework gets done.

But that doesn't mean that I'm going to stop questioning things when stuff that surprises or confuses me pops up.

[ysabet.livejournal.com]

**nods** I got the same thing from my dad. He didn't make me believe, he made me think... and he didn't particularly approve of my being a pagan, btw. He was Baptist; I attended his baptism (he was in his 50's at the time). He didn't teach me about his God or my gods, he taught me to think about stuff and to try not to avoid the questions. Did I like it? Not particularly. Habits are hard to break, though.