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teaching them a language is an act that will shape how they think.
teaching them a religion is an act that will shape how they think.
Well...i know that i'll be teaching them to speak. they pick it up from what i do. And i suppose i'll teaching them about my faith. I sure won't hide it from them.
honestly, i think that the question itself contains an overreaction. It is possible to leave a faith on good terms. Giving a child a world view that is about guilt, fear, and shame...that's pretty cold. But if the message is about the mercy...i trust my children (to be) to work out their relationship with God. I do not pretend that i could somehow make them do anything in this regard. I've left a faith, come back...and making my home a new. I don't know what journeys my kids will take...but if they have any of my willfullness if them...they will certainly not be carbon copies, or unthinking in any way.
kids are a lot more capable than i think we give them credit for...give them agency in learning and becoming, and it won't be a matter of "imposing" something.
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For God so loved creation, that God sent God's only Son that whosoever believed should not perish, but have everlasting life.
-John 3:16
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