Poll: Should Parents have the right to force there religion on there kids ?

[Outcast107]

I think the government should not allow parents to /Enforce/ the religion on there kids.
A 14 year old who is very intelligent and lives in a small insanely christen town
and he starts questioning there parents beleifs and states that he is a /\[)Insert Religon or
lack of one here (]/\ and the parents force him to practice there sect . does the government step in ?

..Dude..chill out. Your probably just piss cause your parents made you go to church. I'm sure a kid can live a little bit in going to whatever the parents go to for religion. ANd it just seems like your picking Christan a lot then anything else so I just assume its a hate thing that you have.

 

[I Stomp on Kittens]

I got confermed and im an athiest and I don't like to be forced through it because it's awkward when everyone stares at you with a death glare.

 

[yaik7a]

Oh yes circumcision is evil and barbic and untill we can magically (Or Technology) grow foreskins in should be banned.

 

[yaik7a]

I think the government should not allow parents to /Enforce/ the religion on there kids.
A 14 year old who is very intelligent and lives in a small insanely christen town
and he starts questioning there parents beleifs and states that he is a /\[)Insert Religon or
lack of one here (]/\ and the parents force him to practice there sect . does the government step in ?

..Dude..chill out. Your probably just piss cause your parents made you go to church. I'm sure a kid can live a little bit in going to whatever the parents go to for religion. ANd it just seems like your picking Christan a lot then anything else so I just assume its a hate thing that you have.

Nope my parents are devoted communists and also its islam and Judaism and the Mormans !

 

[Lunar Shadow]

Yes
Kids need to at least start with a religion, and you certainly can't choose your own until you get older and can judge things correctly. So your parents religion should be your start-off, then you can change later when you have a different perspective, like choosing your major in college.

Why not raise your kids as atheists till they're old enough?

My parents are Christians, and that is what they did with m and my brother. They raised usin a secular environment, devoid of relgion. As a consequnce I developed an interest in other religions and eventaully became Buddhist.

 

[Outcast107]

well, yeah to a degree. they should be able to teach them what they believe and make them go to church etc.
i mean, if we stop religious people from teaching their kids about their faith then we'd have to stop atheist parents teaching their kids about evolution and how god doesn't exist.

Evolution is a fact, not a religious belief.

I only believe that animals evolve. And the reason is to be better able to live in the changing earth. I do not believe that we came from damn monkeys.

We DID NOT COME FROM MONKEYS, we share an ancestor. And humans are animals. IF you want to live in ignorance that is fine, but please please do not make your children do the same.

I want to let you know this....You...read...my..Post..wrong...reread it...again. Please before you start yelling , read it again..

 

[Outcast107]

Apes, way to demonstrate how little you actually know.

O wow..damn..you really did show me. Now I shall give up my view just because I got the wrong sort of animal....

I'm just saying, before claiming something like that, maybe you should know something about it. I'm not trying to say you're an idiot, so I apologise that I came across like that.[/quote]

meh..its cool. I just a bit piss off..is all

 

[yaik7a]

well, yeah to a degree. they should be able to teach them what they believe and make them go to church etc.
i mean, if we stop religious people from teaching their kids about their faith then we'd have to stop atheist parents teaching their kids about evolution and how god doesn't exist.

Evolution is a fact, not a religious belief.

I only believe that animals evolve. And the reason is to be better able to live in the changing earth. I do not believe that we came from damn monkeys.

We DID NOT COME FROM MONKEYS, we share an ancestor. And humans are animals. IF you want to live in ignorance that is fine, but please please do not make your children do the same.

I want to let you know this....You...read...my..Post..wrong...reread it...again. Please before you start yelling , read it again..

This is not evolution flaming broads no matter what side your on (Which im on the pro evolution side anyway)

 

[Dancingman]

No, it should be a matter of personal choice.

 

[celticrockgod]

Yes
Kids need to at least start with a religion, and you certainly can't choose your own until you get older and can judge things correctly. So your parents religion should be your start-off, then you can change later when you have a different perspective, like choosing your major in college.

Why not raise your kids as atheists till they're old enough?

My parents are Christians, and that is what they did with m and my brother. They raised usin a secular environment, devoid of relgion. As a consequnce I developed an interest in other religions and eventaully became Buddhist.

I think the parent's religion doesn't matter. Unless it's a crushing oppressive situation, the kids are going to believe what they want. I agree with Lunar Shadow. My parents were christian, but when i was sixteen, i was told that i could believe whatever i wanted, which is how i became a Pagan. When it comes down to it, religion is a completely individual experience, and expressing your religion on someone else that either doesn't believe it, or is too young to understand it, isn't right.

 

[Captain Pancake]

Yes, but force is a strong word. If a family follows a certain lifestyle, it's only natural that they should want to bring their children up in the same way. But it has to be in moderation, because it's not the life to lead if it's the main factor in your life. follow it until you reach the age at which you can make that decision for yourself, then continue of your own will, or go your seperate ways. They have the right and the responsibility to raise their children as they see fit. that's about the gist of it, anyway.

 

[jamesworkshop]

My problem is with practices like circumcision where they have no choice and are forced to live with that decision whereas mass qand baptisms can be easily ingnored if they chose not to follow that religion.

 

[vamp rocks]

i think that parents can teach their child whatever they want... but if they get old and start questioning it then the child should be able to freely act...

 

[Outcast107]

well, yeah to a degree. they should be able to teach them what they believe and make them go to church etc.
i mean, if we stop religious people from teaching their kids about their faith then we'd have to stop atheist parents teaching their kids about evolution and how god doesn't exist.

Evolution is a fact, not a religious belief.

I only believe that animals evolve. And the reason is to be better able to live in the changing earth. I do not believe that we came from damn monkeys.

We DID NOT COME FROM MONKEYS, we share an ancestor. And humans are animals. IF you want to live in ignorance that is fine, but please please do not make your children do the same.

I want to let you know this....You...read...my..Post..wrong...reread it...again. Please before you start yelling , read it again..

This is not evolution flaming broads no matter what side your on (Which im on the pro evolution side anyway)

I'm not sure how I was flaming..when I said I don't believe that we came from monkeys(Or apes..w/e) and Said I believe evolution to a extent. While still being christian, but w/e...most people on this or any forum are retarded anyways, since they seem to read what people wrote before.

 

[Blow_Pop]

I voted yes/no. I think it is every parents right to raise their child as they see fit, but should respect their child's different point of view should it arise in respectful, civil discourse.
Yes, I have a child. She's eight. She has developed her own spiritual beliefs through no encouragement of my own, and that's fine with me.

I tend to agree with you.

I don't think religion should be forced though. I had religion forced on me as a child and as an end result ended up giving it up for 10 years. Now, I still get the forced religion but I still do what I want when I want. I go to MY church with my friends NOT my parents. Then again, I was always more forced from grandparents and such then my parents and unfortunately the extended family was ALWAYS involved.....

 

[yaik7a]

well, yeah to a degree. they should be able to teach them what they believe and make them go to church etc.
i mean, if we stop religious people from teaching their kids about their faith then we'd have to stop atheist parents teaching their kids about evolution and how god doesn't exist.

Evolution is a fact, not a religious belief.

I only believe that animals evolve. And the reason is to be better able to live in the changing earth. I do not believe that we came from damn monkeys.

We DID NOT COME FROM MONKEYS, we share an ancestor. And humans are animals. IF you want to live in ignorance that is fine, but please please do not make your children do the same.

I want to let you know this....You...read...my..Post..wrong...reread it...again. Please before you start yelling , read it again..

This is not evolution flaming broads no matter what side your on (Which im on the pro evolution side anyway)

I'm not sure how I was flaming..when I said I don't believe that we came from monkeys(Or apes..w/e) and Said I believe evolution to a extent. While still being christian, but w/e...most people on this or any forum are retarded anyways, since they seem to read what people wrote before.

But this not what this forums is about

 

[Fishehh]

my mom and dad are both staff at a church ( other words they clean out the organs) and I'm an outspoken atheist yah, so I think that everyone should be an atheist and that would abolish most of the worlds problems (but seriously I think that parents shouldn't force their religion and that at 15 everyone should then choose their religion.)

 

[bjj hero]

Im athiest with a young son. I will raise him with an awareness of what others believe. Similar to fairy stories, religion is part of our culture so I'd be doing him a disservice not to educate him and make him aware.

Much of English literature quotes or referrences the bible. Without an understanding the literature loses some of its meaning and impact. Same with architecture, music etc.

At the same time I would not raise him as in a faith the same way I wont raise him as a conservative voter/fascist or communist. These ideologies are to be decided when he is an adult with a better world view. Ill be teaching him to question everything. Why would the author right that? Is there a benefit to bending the truth? Does it match other historical sources? What supporting evidence is there? that sort of thing. At that point he can decide for himself.

I think its cruel to raise a child in a religion. all that guilt, extra restrictions, mutilation etc. I personally don't think its fair. I think calling a child a christian child is as silly as calling him/her a marxist child. These are adult ideas to be decided by adults.

Sign me up under "Fuck no".

 

[yaik7a]

Wow fuck No is get pretty high