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No matter what, you will get a certain amount of brainwashing in any school. But do you really want your kids to be brainwashed into thinking science is wrong, and it is evil to question things? At least if they know how to think for themselves, they won't grow up blindly following people without knowing their true motives.
You give your child a choice to believe or not to believe?
godspeed,
freedom
Who said I shove atheism down anyone's throat? YOU said that, not me.
I teach my kids about ALL current religions and why people believe or don't. I beleive in letting the kids choose when they are ready and fully understand. Its their lives, not mine.
Who said I shove atheism down anyone's throat? YOU said that, not me.
I teach my kids about ALL current religions and why people believe or don't. I beleive in letting the kids choose when they are ready and fully understand. Its their lives, not mine.
I would have no problem sending my girls to an Anglican School though they attend public school. I would be hesitant about a Catholic or Orthodox school as the rigidity I've heard about would call for my investigation before being comfortable sending them there. I would never want them to go to a Protestant (except maybe Lutheran) school.
I don't have children of my own but I've so often felt that the education system in America, and especially where I live, is absolutely horrible and not conducive to a proper education. I was, however, thinking about it the other day that if my wife and I decided to have kids that I would do everything in my power to send them to a private school. Not surprisingly enough, every private school in my area has a religious founding. That doesn't really bother me so much as I don't have a problem with my hypothetical children learning the Bible but I couldn't possibly send them to a school that I felt had a skewed science program and taught "Creation" over "Evolution" or things of that nature. Thoughts? Would you send your child to a religious private school - and think about it - would you pay five thousand to seven thousand dollars a year for them to be exposed to religion and forced to pray every day?
I don't think I would send my young children to a Christian school; their minds are very impressionable at that age. I think it was Hitler that said "give me a child until he's 5 and he's mine forever."
not to compare religion to this man, but I think that's what happens in a lot of religion. I refuse to involve my children in anything religious until they can make up their own mind about god.
Plus, the price-tag is outrageous! I don't even make that per year.
There is no choice between creation and evolution as taught by Atheist's....
godspeed,
freedom
That's because there's nothing to discuss. It's not a controversy. There's no evidence to suggest anything was created. If there were, it'd be taught. And, by the way, merely accepting evolution as a fact does not make a person an Atheist. It just makes them less succeptible to believing in ridiculous stories that would have made more sense on an episode of Fraggle Rock.
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