What age will your children be when you tell them God is not real?

Question

hahaha You guys get so mad. This is hysterical!

Answer 1

I have a better idea - Let your kids decide for themself what they choose to believe instead of pushing your beliefs on them ;)

Answer 2

I think that I'd do what my parents did for me. They gave me a children's edition of the bible to read when I was 5. I read it and I really enjoyed the story. Ever since then, I could never look on any of the people described inside as anything more than fictional characters, like wizards and dragons and talking animals. To this day, I think the bible makes for a pretty good read on a Sunday afternoon. As long as you have an "embellished" version that isn't quite so preachy and focuses more on the action - the ritual sacrifices, the wars, the adultery. Preferably it should have pictures of handsome bare chested men and gorgeous scantily clad women to illustrate the clothing of the times in those hot climates. :)

Answer 3

God and life are the ONLY things that are real,
All else is created by God and the life (spiritual?) force.
How MAN understands it is what isn't real.
Never tell anyone God isn't real because you would be wrong.
Never tell anyone you know all about who and what God is because you would be equally wrong.
People believe what they believe simply because they believe it.
Faith is based on such beliefs but all are inaccurate in some way.
If something happens to a person that changes his mind, he will change his belief.
That changes his faith.
People who loose their faith suffer from the inability to accept the fact that their teachers were wrong and that a change or adjustment in their beliefs is required.
Because someone doesn't have faith doesn't mean God doesn't exist.
The physical universe didn't create life. Life created the physical universe.
I think that life force is what we are talking about when we speak of God.

Answer 4

I imagine it being somewhat like when I figured it out on my own except I won't bother with the charade that he ever existed leading up to that point. Actions really do speak louder than words - as we pass churches on the way to IHOP on Sunday I can just explain what all those people are doing (lying to themselves about the existence of a "god"). If he never sets foot in a church and learns that god is a logical shim people whip out whenever they're too lazy to think through an explanation for something they'll lose any taste for religion or gods.

Answer 5

A Born-again Mother will always try to do what God Says, Especially concerning their Children. ( They know the Devil Has a bid for them) But God says" To RAISE UP A CHILD IN THE WAY IT SHOULD GO, And WHEN THEY BECOME OLD, THEY WILL NOT DEPART FROM IT!!! Meanwhile, We always Plead the Blood Of Jesus OVER them...........And the Devil Doesn't Have A CHANCE. GOD IS REAL! HE LIVES IN OUR SOUL! "TIS WONDERFUL" + + +

Answer 6

I do not lie to my children so I will not tell them that God is not real ever as that is a lie. Besides which if I did tell my children that they would have me committed as they would know I had gone stark raving mad.

Answer 7

Never. I have studied archaeology, science, history etc. and why would I lie to them.

Science has an opinion that is ignored by those without Nobel Prizes...
"The principle of [divine] purpose ... stares the biologist in the face wherever he looks ... . The probability for such an event as the origin of DNA molecules to have occurred by sheer chance is just too small to be seriously considered ... ."Ernst Boris Chain - Nobel Prize in medicine

"There is no incompatibility between science and religion... Science shows that God exists." - Prof. D. Barton, Nobel Prize Chemistry

Even the Professor Antony Flew the former atheist (30+ years of speaking as an atheist) that had debated men such as C.S. Lewis recently said that the latest biological research "has shown, by the almost unbelievable complexity of the arrangements which are needed to produce (life), that intelligence must have been involved."

Try reading the Case for Christ and the Case for Faith by Lee Stroebel as a start to realizing that God DOES exist! He loves us and even sent his son to die for us so we would be worth of getting into heaven.

Here is a quote by a former atheist.
"Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it." - C.S. Lewis

Answer 8

Haha. How would you tell them that? uh mommy, what about the stars? "oh, thats just explosions" well how did they get there, "there just there, you see, they made themselves" mommy, do i have a reason to be alive? "no, not really, you were an accident like mom and dad, but try to live a good life and let people live how they want because you can't really decided what is truth or what is wrong or right"

Answer 9

Well, I would try not to lie to my children so I would never tell them that. God is real. Your lack of belief doesn't change that fact.

Answer 10

My parents took care of it by never putting the notion in my head. Then when it arose at about the age of 5, they told me that there is no such thing as god and told me what Christians believe. Seemed pretty ridiculous to me at 5 so I don't know why it seems so sane to people older than that. They never really tried to stop me from believing. I even tried to become a Christian once but found it so ridiculous that I could never buy into it. So, as soon as they ask tell them what a sham it is.

Answer 11

No age.

It's not something I would say to them.

Hopefully, I've raised them so that they can think for themselves, and decide for themselves, and I'll respect whatever decision they make.

Hail Eris! All Hail Discordia!