True or False? A child should not be taught about God until you can teach him evolution at the same time?

Question

isn't it unfair to teach children about Christianity before they learn about evolution or other beliefs?

Shouldn't a child have a fair chance to pick his or her belief?

By giving Christianity a head start, that's not fair

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Answer 1

False. They should be taught science. Don't waste their time with fairy tails. To teach children Christianity will ensure the IQ of that generation to be 20pts or more lower than the previous. We need to end religion, it is weakening the country.

Answer 2

This also makes you ask, shouldnt a child be taught EVERY religion to see which it prefers.

Its up to the parents (though I dont believe it should be) What religion the child is. I think its well and good for them to 'inform' but converting is wrong. If the child believes thats what they want, then they should be allowed into the religion, then they can chose to leave when their older if they wish.

This has turned into a debate about One view being true and one being false, even when the question was shouldnt they have a choice.

If Christians want to believe in God they can. If Muslims want to believe in Allah they can. If Atheists belive that science is the answer then they can.

I personally am an Atheist, my Parents are Christian (not strong though) So I found it easy to chose my own view. There are people I know who have VERY Strong Catholic parents and Catholosism has been passed down in their famly. During a Science lesson on Carbon Dating awhile back, this person Argued with the teacher about how he was telling Lies and how the world had not been around Millions of years. I think parents have effect that and because of the conditioning this person went through as a child they will always follow that belief. So, after my longwinded answer, I believe Parents should 'teach' like in RS lessons, not 'preach' like in church. Forcing a child to go to church and sunday school and stopping them from exploring other things is wrong.

Answer 3

get rid of the theory that there is any connection between any god and the Bible. The Bible is a e book written by using dozens of Hebrew people over perchance one thousand years. a number of them were close to to insane. others were sane and recording the information or old memories as they observed or heard them, some others would were mendacity. there is not any reason to imagine that they had any extra of an theory of what a god become truly like than the chinese language or the Indians did. What made them "particular" precisely? It become their own declare that they had a particular courting with this god. Any nationwide team with a god can make an same declare and probably did. Genesis is in simple terms the Hebrew introduction fable. a number of the e book, truly the flood tale is basically copied from the Sumerians who flourished more advantageous than one thousand years earlier a lot of what's interior the Bible become written down. Exodus is the quite exaggerated tale of a collection of Hebrews leaving Egypt, probably after being kicked out as unlawful immigrants. Leviticus has an excellent style of magical mumbo-jumbo, a number of the flaws interior the second one 0.5 of the old testomony are widespread to have befell. that doesn't make the full Bible "authentic" back interior the day, many people had a diverse theory of what an trustworthy record incorporates. not purely did they record what befell, they tended to record what they idea "might want to" have befell besides. somebody else got here alongside 2 hundred or 2000 years later, reads it and may want to not tell what actual befell from what somebody else idea "might want to" have befell. so as that they tell it like it become all actual authentic. yet on the on the spot in case you examine a narrative in a newspaper that announces A, B, C and D befell you would nicely be fantastically positive that that all of them did, even although C would not were considered necessary. So even if there's a god, if the Bible has something to do with a god, that's fullyyt by using twist of destiny.

Answer 4

Every child should be taught about every religion or lack there of before they leave your house. Why? Because if you don't when they get out into the world they will be taking your beliefs with them, not their own. They need to make the decision for themselves (as the bible clearly states) and they need to be informed of all other religions first. Teach them young so as they get older they will have the opportunity to research every religion and figure out which one holds the most water if any. And how are you as a theist supposed to combat the theory's of evolution if you don't know anything about them!? That drives me nuts. They seem to think that their faith is all an atheist needs to see to believe and they can say "I know creation is right because I believe" not being told about other religions and not being explained the idea of evolution and being afraid to ask questions to my very Christian parents is the exact reason why now I am no longer one. Now I researched things myself and I know the truth.

Answer 5

Do some intense homework, and you'll find that science still regards evolution as a theory, not a fact, and that all attempts and experiments to prove it have failed in the worst fashion.

Parent's should teach their children what they believe to be true, and not make judgements about what other people are teaching their children. As the kids reach maturity, they'll make up their own minds, anyway.

I was raised as a preacher's kid, and believed in my young adulthood that I could never follow that line of belief. However, after exploring many other avenues of study, I finally came around to my personal belief in God and Creation.

Don't sweat the small stuff, its a waste of your time and energy.

Answer 6

From the Christian perspective, part of our religious beliefs require us to teach our Children about God. There are many Christians, I am one of them, who do not see a conflict between Christianity and evolution.

Teaching a child about God does not make him or her a Christian. That is something they have to decide for themselves. I believe it is also important to teach children about science, art, math, history, and other religions. They can be taught that there are people who believe differently than we do. And, I think most young adults go through a period were they question, or at least re-examine their beliefs. I know I did, and the result was a strengthening of my Christian faith.

Answer 7

I wouldn't worry too much about this. Most kids rebel against their parents at some time in their lives. Even in totalitarian states kids rebel. Read about the 'edelweiss pirates' in Nazi Germany. They did some great things and some even died for it. What you say about Christianity may be true but its the way of the world. As a child I went to a church school and was in the church choir. Now I'm an atheist and find it difficult to understand how anyone can be religious.

Answer 8

False because nothing is more important that teaching a child about God.

How would it help a child to have taught him or her about the theory of evolution but not about God if that child suddenly dies? When we die, the only thing that will matter is our relationship with God.

Answer 9

I think that a child should never learn about christianity. I only say this because of my experience with christians and because i was one. not a true christian is a sorry excuse, because i was one of those fundie types too.

I do think that if you had a bad experience with christians you should share that with your child instead. Also it whould be a good idea to give the child a book like the dark side of christian history so they wont be an easy prey for christian evangelists.

Answer 10

Since religion is a complete waste of time (no religious precept has any verifiable predictive power whatever), I would not (and in the case of my own children, did not) teach it at all. Evolution, however, is a well-established scientific theory (warning to cretins who claim that it's "just a theory" -- "established" means "established as factual") which must be understood if one is to have any understanding of how to attack questions such as what sort of drugs to develop or what may be the effects of using genetically-engineered crops.