Do Christians warn their children about the dangers of taking their religion too seriously?

Question

Is this another one of those catch 22 situations? If you guys don’t warn them about it, they might end up as one of those crackpot fanatics, wearing sandwich boards, roaming around the city ranting and raving. But if you guys do warn them about taking religion too seriously, what’s to stop them from taking the entire religion seriously at all?

Answer 1

We warn our children about the dangers and treacheries of the people in religion. The people whom think that their religion is better than the rest. The people whom use religion as a cop out to kill, steal, and swindle. The people who claim to be true believers yet judge and abandon all those that don't think like they do at every turn.

Thank you for the thumbs down. Someone here just proved my point.

Answer 2

It is not a matter of taking it seriously. There is no limit to how seriously you should take your faith. The problem is people spreading bad teachings.

For example this stupid "church" in West Virginia that celebrates our soldiers dying is just a bunch of inbred hicks led by an ingorant hillbilly. If you were to go show them what the Bible actually says God does with countries that support homosexuality and sodomy, and you could actually get it through their solid rock skulls, they would stop following that set of beliefs.

And BTW, God never once destroyed any country or city that merely had homosexuals living in it or that were tolerated there. It was when Soddom and Gamorrah became completely over run by them that God did something. And He didnt have their soldiers die in some war, he annihilated both towns beyond any possible repair or recognition by raining fire onto them.

Find a Church that preaches true doctrine, exactly word for word from the Bible in the literal sense and that will be the right kind to take seriously and be excited about.

Answer 3

People can take anything too seriously not just religion. As long as you teach the child common sense and a bit of morals you dont have to worry about anything fanatical.

Answer 4

I'm not a parent but I would warn them if I was. However, the problem is usually the reverse - not taking their Christianity seriously enough. A merry heart doeth good like a medicine. Proverbs 17:22

Answer 5

i'm a Baha'i, this can be a extremely prepared faith, and neither the Baha'i faith nor I now threaten, or have ever threatened, each person. So, how's your good judgment now? Baha'u'llah continued the most afflictive of calamities. He bore countless agonies and ills. He loved no longer a second's peace, drew no longer an easeful breath. He wandered, homeless, over desert sands and mountain slopes; He changed into close in a fort, and a detention center cellular. yet to Him, His pauper's mat of straw changed into an eternal throne of glory, and His heavy chains a sovereign's carcanet. by ability of day, by ability of evening, He lived lower than a whirring sword, and He changed into waiting from second to second for lack of existence on the pass. He bore all this that He might want to purify the international, and deck it out with the mushy mercies of our lord god; that He might want to set it at relax; that conflict and aggression might want to be positioned to flight, the lance and the prepared blade be exchanged for loving fellowship, malevolence and warfare become protection and gentleness and love, that battlefields of hate and wrath ought to develop into gardens of entertainment, and places the position once the blood-sopping wet armies clashed, be aromatic excitement grounds; that warfare must be considered as shame, and the motel to hands, on a similar time as a loathsome sickness, be kept away from by ability of each and every human beings; that well-known peace improve its pavilions on the loftiest mounts, and warfare be made to perish continuously from the earth. Does that sound like a probability to humanity to you?

Answer 6

They are proud of the fanatics. No such thing as too serious. The perpetuation of the lie NEEDS fanatics that deny the truth in science.

So nice to have my prejudices constantly confirmed by illiterate believers who are stumped by grammar and spell checkers. Ironic that those who cannot read nor write put all their trust in a book. Are books magical to the illiterate?

Answer 7

Thats not from taking it too seriously hon,thats from NOT taking it seriously enough.
JESUS said " straight is the gate and narrow is the way that leads to life and FEW be that find it, but broad is the way that leads to destruction and MANY travel thereon."
Yeah there'll be people who are religiously mislead, but those who dont take it serious enough are no better off
Those are the ones who do everything in moderation and live with one foot in the world and the other in the church.

Answer 8

It's called being "legalistic"; meaning, taking in too much the details and latching on to them as a bigger importance than what they really are.

God sends out preachers of all forms....what you deem as 'normal' another person may see as 'bizarre' in their approach to getting God's word out.

Keep it in mind that God uses ALL KINDS of people of all kinds of persuations to get His message out. Do NOT sit in judgement of those who seemingly appear as not being "proper" in how they convey God's message. That is not for you to decide.

God used John the Baptist to get the message out before Christ entered the picture. John was seen as a very strange, unusual man. He dressed very oddly, was bold and aggressive, and had a strange appetite.

Moses stuttered, yet he did God's work. God loves to use people who are not 'typical' or 'usual' in their day. People who even today would be shunned because of their appearance, mannerisms, or the way that they talk.

Conclusion: No need to "warn" anything. God's Holy Spirit is Who does the work, and we are but messengers. Children need to hear God's word from early on, as it is a blessing to offer to children to have the peace that God's love offers. So long as the message is straight from the Bible, then Who Cares what the person is wearing, how they speak, their age, nationality, race, gender or odd habits????

111507 5:52

Answer 9

A better question may have been, "Should christians warn their children about the dangers of rejecting Christ". Your question is loaded. You obviously are against Christ and his followers. That is your choice, but at least be honest about it.

Answer 10

You can never take your religion "too" seriously. You act like there's a limit to how much we can be Christians.