CNN iReport - Why I Raise My Children without God

by EntirelyPossible 12 Replies latest watchtower bible

  • EntirelyPossible
    EntirelyPossible

    Really, there is little practical point in invisible sky-daddy.

  • jgnat
    jgnat

    "Fairy Tales are blamed for teaching children that there are such things as monsters. Children already know that there are monsters. What Fairy Tales really teach is that monsters can be killed." - Chesterton

    Well before I read a bible well through, I had read all of Grimm's Fairy Tales, the collection of Hans Christian Andersen, and Aesop's Fables too. You can't tell me that these aren't just as bloody.

    A child's mind, maybe better than some adults, can accommodate fantasy alongside reality. In fantasy, a child can test heroism, conquer monsters, scale great heights.

    I blame the religious literalists of our age, alongside some athiests, for taking the magic out.

  • PSacramento
    PSacramento
    Psac, I love what you wrote, but.....
    ...if God is not really a role model and doesn't truly concern himself with being fair or protecting the innocent,
    then if "He" does exist, I won't bow down to him.

    Yes, I understand that.

    It is very hard for Us to reconcile a loving God that has the power to protect the innocent and doesn't.

    You won't get an argument from me as to how hard that is for Us to do.

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