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#344167
Seamus D
Over and over again, my experience with people of all ages and religions says you are wrong. So wrong. My Christian upbringing didn't teach me anything about the real world. So fuck off.
11/25/2007 1:13:11 PM
#344176
Bobtehbuildah
I don't see how children CAN consider any other choices when people like this force something on their child
11/25/2007 1:17:00 PM
#344178
werewolf
How do you know your god's way? Does he speak to you regularly? Or do you get it from your ancient book of dubious authorship?
From what nether region did you pull this out of?
11/25/2007 1:18:54 PM
#344188
Jon
As a Christian you don't actually believe people make choices, do you? That would mean that sometimes you can do things that aren't predetermined by a book.
11/25/2007 1:24:58 PM
#344200
Michael
Fail. They make their "own" decisions for Christ - FAIL.
11/25/2007 1:31:05 PM
#344202
Blackvoice
"child rearing" =/= "people of excellence"
11/25/2007 1:32:35 PM
#344205
Berny
Raising children with a strict fundamentalist perspective, whether it be Christian, Jewish, Muslim, etc., has a nasty tendency of turning them into social cripples.
They become adults incapable of tolerating anyone else's point of view, seeing no validity in any view but their own.
Kind of like you, Floating Axe.
11/25/2007 1:38:53 PM
#344206
cyborgtroy
Something tells me you were raised in an uber-Christian household.
11/25/2007 1:38:57 PM
#344234
Mike
Boo self reliance. Hooray Jesus!
::puke::
11/25/2007 2:17:23 PM
#344237
Marissa
I'm really not getting it. Are some of these fundies closet masochists? Why else would you want a god who can utterly humiliate you because he knows all your unpleasant little secrets? Why would you be happy about that, unless you enjoy being shamed?
11/25/2007 2:22:45 PM
#344238
Old Viking
I am very, very familiar with Christian upbringing and the values it bestows. Foremost -- when it's successful -- is the value of spending you entire life without once using your own mind. Christian upbringing is an immense pile of doo-doo.
11/25/2007 2:23:38 PM
#344245
Tell it to Mary Kay Letourneau, Randall Terry's children, the daughter of one of the PK, etc..............
11/25/2007 2:29:29 PM
#344277
flipper
So you want all children to grow up to be braindead fundie sheep, unable to think for themselves like..YOU.
11/25/2007 3:02:05 PM
#344377
Rubyfruit
As someone who was brought up the way you prescribed...
Fuck you!
11/25/2007 5:30:13 PM
#344384
szena
Children of Christian homes make their own decisions for Christ.
A while back the Southern Baptist convention was moaning that 80% of kids raised in their churches leave, never to come back, once they get to college age. One of you is lying.
11/25/2007 5:41:20 PM
#344427
MrBadAxe
"make their own decisions"
There's the jump...
"for Christ"
and he lands a perfect 180!
11/25/2007 6:45:11 PM
#344434
Freboy
"An open mind is like a fort with its gates unbarred and unguarded."
11/25/2007 6:58:51 PM
#344512
Evil Deadite
I was raised by christian parents. Good people too. And yet, here I am, an atheist.
11/25/2007 10:27:45 PM
#344524
nancy
and us children of secular homes make our own choices for ourselves.
you point?
11/25/2007 11:23:36 PM
#344584
JD
.... "doing it god's way"? isn't that what they call the missionary position too?
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11/26/2007 1:54:17 AM
#344678
Nutz
While I can at least credit him with teh fact that most of the people I know who were raised Christian ended up doing pretty good for themselves, I think his argument breaks down when you look at the fact that almost all of them discarded their faith at about the age of 12 once they realized it was ridiculous.
11/26/2007 7:04:46 AM
#344986
John
Doing it God's way brings much success in child rearing. They become people of excellence!
Why do I think he doesn't mean teaching them "love thy neighbor as thyself"?
11/26/2007 4:19:46 PM
#345086
Katya
Even good parents can have bad kids. Same goes for good Christian parents.
Also, just because you're exposed to Christianity early on in life doesn't mean you'll stick with it. I know people who stopped going to church the moment they left Mommy & Daddy's.
11/26/2007 6:23:46 PM
#345469
Paler_Face
There is no salvation or value in any other choices!
Of course, there is no salvation in your choice either, since salvation as you understand it is a delusion wrought upon your mind by the indoctrination by your parents and the various dogmas of your church.
11/27/2007 5:33:38 AM
#1420808
Quantum Mechanic
bullshit
7/7/2012 11:09:38 AM
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