I Raised a Religious Child

TheThinkingAtheist

The Thinking Atheist

Science, Society & Culture, Education

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🗓️ 22 April 2014

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

What happens when you reject religion AFTER you've already raised your children to believe in God?

How does a parent approach children to inform them that the years of church services, mealtime prayers, bible verses and godspeak were actually a mistake, and what are the potential repercussions and responses? Anger? Denial? Relief? Joy?

This show talks about parents who, for whatever reason, raised children under religious teachings and rules and now find themselves in disagreement with doctrine they once held as Truth.

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0:00.0	Okay, here we go. The step-by-three, two, one, action!
0:06.6	Assume nothing.
0:08.4	Brash, bald, fake, black, blue.
0:10.6	Question, everything.
0:12.4	I find it extremely hard to imagine.
0:14.3	Open your eyes.
0:16.4	It is quite all right to be an atheist.
0:18.6	The fastest growing group of people in the country
0:21.1	has been measured as being those who have no belief or who are atheists.
0:24.9	You don't have to be apologetic or quiet about it.
0:27.4	Challenge the opposition.
0:28.9	You see religion on a hundred fronts losing the argument.
0:32.8	And start thinking.
0:37.8	This is the thinking atheist worldwide.
0:44.7	Had a great time in Salt Lake City, Utah,
0:47.6	over the weekend, for the 2014 American atheist national conference,
0:52.9	had a chance to do some fresh material.
0:55.2	I was preparing a speech I didn't kind of think about for a couple of years.
0:59.2	The dealt with how Christianity rips off so much of the best ideas from pop culture.
1:05.9	And then tries to do its own version of it.
1:08.5	Sort of a way of coordinating things off,
1:10.8	keeping people from participating out there in the world.
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