Children, religion, and critical thinking.

Elsewhere, someone presented a dilemma: her mother-in-law enjoyed taking her son to church and he enjoyed going, "the problem I'm having though, is my husband and I are really against some of the things they teach (I won't go into specifics, but for example, I eavesdropped and heard one sermon where they were blasting homosexuals). Now that my son is nearly 2.5 I'm worried he's actually listening and picking up on this stuff." She went on in a later post to explain that she is an atheist, but has always intended to expose her child to different beliefs. She wound up concluding that the best thing to do would be to ask her husband to find a liberal church "so he can take our son too and show him another side."

I replied to her: ( Read more... )