Atheist parents?

Question

Has your kid ever said anything regarding religion that just made you so proud?
Here is part of a conversation my son (D) and I were having the other day: (he's 8)

J: According to the bible God made Adam and Eve and from them came everyone else.
D: That doesn't make any sense. Then everyone would be like, related to everyone. That would mean everyone was like, having incest or something.
J: *laughing SO hard*
D: What? Seriously!
J: Well, that is one of the many reasons Momma doesn't believe in God, a lot of the bible just makes no sense...to me. It's okay if you do though. Religion is very personal, YOUR religion is no one else's business but your own.
D: Yeah but like, some people really think like dinosaurs went on the ark and stuff with Noah? That's crazy. Dinosaurs were here and gone before people came.
J: Well, I agree but they have the right to think that if they want. Don't they?
D: Pshhh, I guess. [rolls eyes]

Ahhhh youth....

Kids are so much smarter than people give them credit for. Fellow atheist parents > care to share?

Mr Stiggo, if he askes a question I answer it. He hears a word somewhere and wants to know what it means I tell him. It's just vocabulary. He knows what rape is to and thinks people who do it are horrible. Knowledge is power.

Answer 1

Yes, my daughter is exasperated with these concepts, especially creationism. She has been a big science reader since she was a pre-schooler -- loves her dinosaurs. We have a membership to the science museum and it boggles her mind that people honestly do not give credence to the evidence for evolution that is right in front of them.

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Answer 2

As Jenae well knows my boy is only 3 months old. He really can't communicate yet.

I had Nico in my lap and I was feeding him while I was watching Joel Olsteen on Larry King and he was talking about the importance of faith and a belief in god.

At that exact moment my kid realeased the largest most foul thing to exist on this earth from his bowels.

Coincidence?

I think not...

Answer 3

I was stunned to see how intelligent my boyfriend's little brother is. Their parents are atheists, and his little brother was 10 at the time of my visit (11 now). He was arguing with a Jesus video that his concerned Christian relatives had given the family, he has skipped 4th grade and is advanced math for his grade, and he's come up with a "perfect" economy...or so he says. It's a communist society, but he refuses to accept that, because the people in his society would be happy.
Kids. e_e

Answer 4

My daughter never mentioned anything like that, so neither did I. Occasionally she would make comments about how silly she thought the Jesus freaks on the boardwalk were.

It worked out just fine.

Atheist parent of atheist 23 year old.

Answer 5

My father became into an atheist; mom a non-working in direction of Catholic. i became into born and raised in a predominantly Roman Catholic united states and went to Catholic colleges. i became into completely brainwashed into Catholic dogma starting to be up; i became into an altar boy for a on a similar time as, or perhaps meditated entering seminary. besides the shown fact that, on or bearing directly to the age of thirteen my innate intelligence kicked in and that i began out to question lots of the extra nonsensical doctrines like the Trinity, the virgin beginning, the priest as center-guy to God, and so on and so on. It took a on a similar time as, yet i ultimately unyoked myself thoroughly from the cage of Catholic fantasy i became into imprisoned in. I now experience like an eagle parting clouds with good wings. unfastened to think of for myself instead of blindly believing each and every of the non secular crock i became into spoon-ate up. i'm now the hero of my own existence, no longer a slave to a tyrannical "God." i'm confident, based on the overpowering historic information unearthed (by making use of Biblical pupils no much less), that Christianity is between the biggest hoaxes ever perpetrated on humanity. Their god-guy is not extra genuine than the quicker god-adult males of Greek, Sumerian, Phoenician, Egyptian, Persian, and Indian folklore. per historic kinds, Jesus as god-guy will sometime circulate the way of all the different god-guy myths. the quicker the extra effective, simply by fact Christianity (incorporate all monotheism) is a crock of bovine ordure.

Answer 6

That's why they try to start on kids at an even earlier age - because you really have to have this nonsense drilled into your head before you possess the critical capacity to analyze it, so that acceptance of it becomes automatic.

Grown adults, who are otherwise totally rational and intelligent people, are absolutely incapable of applying rational criticism to their religious beliefs, because that content in their brains is kept in a watertight compartment. And that's the plain result of childhood brainwashing, which I consider to be straight-up child abuse.

So congratulations on your parenting style!

Answer 7

The only thing that troubles me about this is that your 8 year old knows about incest. My daughter is 7, and I can't imagine her understanding, or needing to understand, the concept of incest next year.

Otherwise, loved it.

Answer 8

Oh God, I love you for this.
Completely open-minded yet giving a good explanation as to WHY you [don't] believe what you believe yet giving him the freedom to choose.
Totally brightened my day, that was way cute.

Answer 9

Yup... we read all mythologies in this house, be they Roman, Welsh or Christian, so when we were reading the crucifixion story one day, my son interrupted me with:

"So... Mom... you mean to tell me this Jesus guy was a zombie?"

I was never so proud. My 7 yo gets it, why don't they?

Answer 10

not a parent, and my niece is only 1 and 1/2, so she isn't exactly talking in full sentences yet...but she's adorable...