Non-Religious Famb and their babies

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NT Famb,

Especially those are non-religious.

How do you handle religion with your kids?

And if your lady/dude is a religious person, how did y'all decide what to do with / what to teach the kiddos?
 
NT Famb,

Especially those are non-religious.

How do you handle religion with your kids?

And if your lady/dude is a religious person, how did y'all decide what to do with / what to teach the kiddos?

I dont think I've ever experienced/witnessed a relationship where two partners were on the opposite end of the spectrum on religion
 
You should check out the muslim thread a blink made OP
 
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I don't care if my child ends up religious as long as he/she is good person, practices empathy, and understand the true separation between church and state.

But I want them to make the religious decision as an adult, not indoctrinated to it as a child.

Want I would do if my partner was religious (even though I is hard to see myself marrying someone like that) is that if my child does go to church, I will come to, and I would also be allowed to expose my child to different faiths and ways of thinking. Especially atheism

To let them know at the end of the day, that religion is about faith in the an unknown. Not about certainty in a few rigid ideals.
 
Me and my boss were talking about this. He isn't a believer. His wife isn't either. So they don't care. But hsi brother is a non-believer and HIS wife IS a believer. So he says his brother just goes along with it because it isn't worth fighting over.

Traditionally, kids go to church with their mothers while the husband sits at home and drinks beers and watches football either way. THe kids will end up finding their own truth regardless.
 
I'm non religious. I just teach my son the truth, not really a big deal, I just tell him to believe in himself and his connection to God and there's nothing in between him and heavenly or earthly father.

No judgement.
 
But you have idiots, no other way I can describe them, that swear moral compasses come from religious teachings
 
I've found it best to not create conflict with my semi-religious wife when it comes to our kid and church. And I say semi because we rarely make it a point to go to church and she seems to be okay with that.

That said, I go out of my way to let my daughter know that there are many religions out there and to respect everyone else's beliefs. I haven't gone as far as letting her know I think they're all equally ridiculous, but then again she's only 5. :lol:

My hope is that in due time, she'll see thru me that a lack of religiousness doesn't equate to being a bad person, like many religions teach. I'm a good dude who does good things and that's what is most important about me, not my religion. I don't want her growing up feeling guilted into a belief system, whether that be religion or my way of thinking. I just want her to grow up to be a kind, open-minded person who respects everyone. If she happens to be religious later in life, then so be it. As long as she's a good person I couldn't care less.
 
I'll tell them it's all make believe adults lie to themselves about.

If the SO religious well they would have known the deal before the children were born.
 
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I don't think I could ever marry a religious woman besides a buddhist, though that's technically not really a religion. I honestly don't know a single religious person under the age of 40, besides muslims. Churches here are struggling and the elderly make up the vast majority of the small crowds that still go to church.

I would teach my child about atheism first if the subject of religion comes up but I'd also teach the concept of believing in a higher power/entity and the various kinds of organized religion as I have been taught. Making sure my kid has all that information and can then make his/her own choice of what to believe. Statistically the odds of my child becoming religious here are pretty low but I wouldn't mind, as long as it doesn't get in the way of our values.

I'd probably send him/her to a catholic school.
Both my elementary and high schools were catholic schools. Most catholic elementary schools nowadays allow children to pick between catholic class and an atheism class.
In my case it was ironically called ethics class, like catholic and ethics are separated :lol:
In reality it was more of a bit of everything. Philosphy and ethics, mixed with some art and crafting here and there. In the first grade it was just me and my muslim friend but more people kept joining throughout the years. Nobody there was religious aside from my friend who is still a devout muslim today. Don't know anyone who was religious in my highschool either, other than a few muslims again. Despite being catholic schools by name, in highschool the religion class is about all religions and focus on providing students with the all the information but not pushing them towards something. They go a bit more in depth about catholicism of course but I learned all about islam, judaism, hinduism and buddhism in my catholic highschool too. I think it's essential to learn about the concept and various forms of religion, even as atheists.
 
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He's on the way but I'm gonna teach him to just be an overall good human. It's funny my folks are super religious & my Mom hasn't even mentioned joy about her first grandchild being born or spending time with him but she's pressing me to get in church to lead a religious example for him :rolleyes basically she's salivating at the chance to brainwash my lil dude. Not gonna happen.
 
I'm Catholic and my wife is Muslim...

She's gone to chuch and observed Islamic prayer w/ her grandparents.

As parents, it's not a big deal. We want her to appreciate who she is and both sides of her family.
 
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I'll tell them it's all make believe adults lie to themselves about.

If the SO religious well they would have known the deal before the children were born.
my wife was raised jewish, and I was raised protestant. neither of us ever bought into it, so if we were to have kids now wed probably end up telling them exactly what you said. :lol: my neighbors are super Christians though, like pushy, I know if we had kids I'd have to check the guy eventually. :lol:
 
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He's on the way but I'm gonna teach him to just be an overall good human. It's funny my folks are super religious & my Mom hasn't even mentioned joy about her first grandchild being born or spending time with him but she's pressing me to get in church to lead a religious example for him :rolleyes basically she's salivating at the chance to brainwash my lil dude. Not gonna happen.

That's what I'm most scared of famb

Cats out here not teaching religion to teach... They're teaching it brainwash.

When it gets to the point where you're going against human decency and logical sense, that's when I have an issue.

For instance, people legitimately feel all sins are equal... I don't want my kids thinking that's life.
 
I don't care if my child ends up religious as long as he/she is good person, practices empathy, and understand the true separation between church and state.

But I want them to make the religious decision as an adult, not indoctrinated to it as a child.

Want I would do if my partner was religious (even though I is hard to see myself marrying someone like that) is that if my child does go to church, I will come to, and I would also be allowed to expose my child to different faiths and ways of thinking. Especially atheism

To let them know at the end of the day, that religion is about faith in the an unknown. Not about certainty in a few rigid ideals.

pretty much this....this was a nicer version of whatever i would have wrote.

i dont see myself marrying a religious person at all....like not even a semi-catholic who only goes to christmas mass every 2 years. none of that. religious people are more prone to be hypocrites and "not smart", and for marriage, i just have higher standards.
but who knows...depends what i settle for in my older years. i don't even really care for marriage as whole but that's another brain freeze.

on the real though, skipping all the PC stuff, i'd be disappointed if my kid was religious. but i'd take care of that child 1000%.
 
NT Famb,

Especially those are non-religious.

How do you handle religion with your kids?

And if your lady/dude is a religious person, how did y'all decide what to do with / what to teach the kiddos?

I let my girl do what she do and I do what I do.

My girl isn't super religious. But she likes celebrating X-mas.

I let her rock and participate.

When it comes to the difficult questions in life, She'll have her have her input and I'll put in mine.

My kids aren't being exposed to religion at the moment because I believe that it should be an adult decision. They need to evaluate things when they're mature enough to sensibly assess all the information available to them.
 
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I will say that I censor certain books like the Barenstain Bears when I'm reading to my children. Mentions of God or prayer get replaced with other words.


Sometimes it'll be a new book and that **** will creep up out of nowhere and I'll have to flow off the top of the dome.

Have me dropping some bars at bedtime.
 
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