Is it okay for Atheists to influence Christians' children towards Atheism?

Question

Is it okay for Atheists to influence Christians' children towards Atheism?
Say if your kids invited some Christians's kids over would it be a good idea to teach them there is no God? Even if those kids are being raised as Christians?

The reason I posted this question is because some aethist asked the opposite question about Christians influincing atheist kids.

Answer 1

Definitely not! I cannot understand why some one would want to even try to do that! Athiest or Christian!

Answer 2

No. That's like saying is it okay for a known druggie to babysit your kids?? You want a blind person leading a sighted person into the ditch?? I don't.
No, the government or anyone else doesn't have a right to do what it is already doing to the minds of our youths. They're churning out of our public schools and universities godless Christ-hating, Bible denying and doubting, evolution loving, secular humanists who do not believe in moral absolutes, the sanctity of human life, the Godly family unit being preserved, etc.
No, because parental neglect is that of teaching them against God. It didn't work for Madelyne O'Hair's son did it? Read William Murray's testimony of which this is a small portion; "I was taught that because there was not God there was no such thing as right or wrong. My mother told me it was better to be a homosexual than to be a Christian. She taught me that the most important things in life were the physical pleasures of drink, food and sex."

http://www.missionresources.com/atheist.html
Who wants their kids around such an environment as that??

Answer 3

If the children are very strong in their faith, nothing will convince them that there is no God. The Children must hold fast to what they know. The Christian children are children of God, they are God's sons and daughters through Jesus.If I had atheist children teaching my kids that their is no God, I would stop my kids from hanging around with them, and let my kids find christians friends instead, which will be much better.

Answer 4

Sorry to tell you but it's Christians who generally PREACH and try to brainwash Atheist kids, not viceversa;) we, Atheist, don't PREACH, we live and let live; we answer back or stand up for our point of view ONLY when provoked or attacked by Christians. My son, who is free to choose what to believe or not believe, (and who knows about Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha and the Sumerians), has many Muslim and Christian friends and the idea of preaching to them never even crossed my mind. Mass control is a prerogative of Christians, not Atheists. On the contrary, those Christian kids' parents tried to preach their beliefs several time, working to convince my son that believing in God was the right way. Christians should STOP PREACHING. We, Atheists, will keep on defending our culture and DEEP knowledge until they'll learn how to behave and respect other people.

Answer 5

It depends what form that influence takes, and what their motivation is. Are they specifically inviting Christian children over in order to teach them that there is no God? Or is it something that has come up in conversation, and they are therefore doing their best to explain in a logical manner? The first, IMHO, crosses a line; the second does not.

Personally I think religious people who attempt to influence children are far more dangerous; there's too much fearmongering, and few people can adequately explain their religious beliefs.


You do realize that in the end we're all Atheists -- I just believe in one less god than you?

Answer 6

Well here is a perfect example of this. I was born a catholic, my daughter is catholic and now I am a non-believer. My daughter loves her religion class and does well in it. So what do I do, pass my beleifs on to her or let her learn on her own?

She asks me questions that she thinks is ridiculous like Noah and Adam and Eve and so on. My dilema; do I tell her what I really think or tell her what catholicism would say. If I tell her what I truly think she will most likely become a non-believer but I do not want to influence her mind and let her guide her own spirituality so I just usually say well you will have to ask your teacher because I am not sure.

So I guess I am saying no one should influence you in anyway. I think she already has doubts of her own why do I have to push the envelope when really if a thirteen year old can decipher that things don't make sense, anyone can.

Yes I can hear it now all the believers will say because I have no faith she doesn't. Like I said I try not to influence her in anyway and if she wants to go to church I will go with her and if she wants to pray I do not discourage her from doing so. In fact I will sit with her while she does. I cannot tell her what to believe and I refuse to.

Answer 7

Is it ok for Atheists to impact Christians' babies in direction of Atheism? Say if your babies invited some Christians's young babies over might it incredibly is a sturdy concept to instruct them there is not any God? despite if those young babies are being raised as Christians?

Answer 8

The fact is that Christians are atheists too, with regard to all the gods except their Yahweh. They are atheistic about Zeus, Aphrodite, Jupiter, Poseidon, Mazda, Osiris, Athena, Mars, Thor, Wotan, L.Ron Hubbard, etc. etc. The people they call atheists are just people who are atheistic about one more god than the Christians are. So the neighbors kids can't be all that different from the Christian kids.

Answer 9

its NOT okay for anyone to tell children what the world is and who created it or didn't before the child is old enough to think it through on their own.

I was told about god and believed everything i was told until i was old enough to start asking questions and finding the answers myself. I didn't make any friends in the process but i found myself and i felt used and violated that I had been brainwashed and forced inot believing something as fact when it is nothing more then a religion, which is far from fact.

We shouldn't mold children's fragile minds into what WE perceive as the Truth.

They are too young to question.

Trust me, if anyone trys to teach religion to my kids, i will be kicking asses

Answer 10

No. But it's perfectly okay to teach a Christian kid that there ARE other books, besides the bible. If the kid becomes Atheist on their own, I see no problem with it.

Answer 11

I don't think it's ok, as a moral issue. I am a pagan, and I don't want ANY beliefs pushed on my son, not even my own. He has a right to choose. If someone tried to tell him that there is no God, I'd be beyond upset.