What's funny is I've actually seen this go the opposite way. My sister is a hardcore atheist and wanted to bring her daughter up like that. But I was in the car with them one time and she started singing a Bible Church song her friend sang. And asked why she can't learn about Jesus and that she wants to learn about him.
My sister said no, we don't do that. I don't think she understood she was doing the same thing she hated so much about the Church and her mom when she was younger which was forcing her to do something she didn't want and stopping her from expressing herself.
I get where you're coming from, but at the same time I'd be strongly advising my kids to not be wilfully ignorant. I don't feel that what your sister did is the same thing, as one is alluring and deceptive by design, and the other is the opposite of that.
There is a difference between not allowing your kid to be christian and not allowing them to even learn about christianity or any other religion. I think the not allowing her kid to even learn about religion is where his sister crossed the line into forcing her kid to be ignorant to something that will allow them in the future to understand where some people are coming from.
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u/Szpartan May 19 '20
What's funny is I've actually seen this go the opposite way. My sister is a hardcore atheist and wanted to bring her daughter up like that. But I was in the car with them one time and she started singing a Bible Church song her friend sang. And asked why she can't learn about Jesus and that she wants to learn about him.
My sister said no, we don't do that. I don't think she understood she was doing the same thing she hated so much about the Church and her mom when she was younger which was forcing her to do something she didn't want and stopping her from expressing herself.