what would you do if your kid came home from college one day and told you he didn't believe in the bible or qu'ran and had become atheist or agnostic; would you respect their decision? disciple to them? disown them? would your view of them change, or your love for that matter?
2007-07-28 14:18:17 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
He or she would still be my child, and I would continue to love him/her. But I would spend a lot of time in prayer that he/she returns to the faith.
2007-07-28 14:31:12 · answer #1 · answered by sdb deacon 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like many others have said, respect his/her decision. Or from a religious view point (in Buddhism anyway, I don't know about the others), there's this thing called Kalama Sutta [google it], telling you to trust your direct experience.
As for other religions, this is just my own opinion but let's put god as a ruler. And if there exists a ruler who would allow his object to be abandoned just because he/she can't find any reason to justify following him, and that certain person being abandoned by his blood-related/relatives for the same reason, I wouldn't find a reason to believe all the other good things about kindness and etc. that ruler said.
2nd paragraph was my opinion. Sorry for the bad English and my bad interpretation of what I wanted to say
2007-07-28 21:41:42 · answer #2 · answered by Kiet T 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would Love her and pray that God lead her back into His path. She has been brought up to be a Christian and God's Word says "Bring up a child in the way they should go, and when they are old they will not depart from it.' So if this did happen I know that somewhere down the path of life she would return to Jesus.
2007-07-28 21:41:08 · answer #3 · answered by PREACHER'S WIFE 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would consider that he/she was going through a questioning phase of life, just as I did when I was young. I would be proud of him/her for thinking independently and not just following along because I told them to. I would try to help them through it by sharing information with them that would bring them back to a realization of God's place in the Universe and in our lives. I would still love my child, and wouldn't disown him/her unless he/she became an active enemy of the faith and disowned me. Even then, I would never give up hoping for my child.
But really, I think it is very unlikely to happen, at least as a permanent state for the child if the parent has raised them with God-consciousness from an early age by sharing the miraculous with them whenever and wherever it presents itself. In that case, the child may have doubts about specific faith practices, but will never be able to imagine that there is no God.
2007-07-28 21:30:27 · answer #4 · answered by MBC 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I would respect their decision. Religion is something you have to willingly accept. Pretending to believe because Mommy says so is not real belief anyway. My family follows multiple beliefs, and I don't think our view of anyone has changed much when their religion changed.
2007-07-28 21:22:50 · answer #5 · answered by Nightwind 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I would certanly have debates with them about it and try to convert them, but in the end I would respect there choice, be proud they've made there own decision and love them as much as I would if they were christian
2007-07-28 21:27:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would respect their decision. Its their life they can live it any way they want. I love for them would never change no matter what they decide.
2007-07-28 23:31:29 · answer #7 · answered by Scarlet 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would respect him and still love him, but I would tell him all the reasons I believe in God. If he interrupted me, I would tell him, "Listen here, I am your mother and I don't want you to make the biggest mistake of your life, or of your eternity. The worst that can happen is you just wasted a little bit of time, the best is you get the irreplacible love of God."
2007-07-28 21:28:12 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Raise a child in the way that you want them to go. So hopefully the way I raised my child, would prevent this from happening. If it did, then I would feel guilty and let down, because then I would realize that I did not do a good Job. I would continue to Love them, and I know in time, as they got older, they would come back to the teachings from his/her childhood.
2007-07-28 21:29:19 · answer #9 · answered by Norskeyenta 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I would respect them and love them. Religion is some thing you have feel. To stay and pretend to believe something is and insult to the religion and to those in the religion.
2007-07-28 21:26:10 · answer #10 · answered by Autumn S 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋