Originally Posted by Stinger

How about raising your child with NO religion? My mother comes from a religious family, but I was never raised according to any religious standards. They didn't babtise me because they wanted me to decide for myself if I wanted to when I would be older. I was taught the value of the bible, but I was also taught that God might not be real. They gave me a taste of everything, not just a small little corner of a closed and biased world where, just to name something, they don't even remember what a common thing such as milk tastes like because they refuse to drink it.

If you, as a religious person cannot raise your kid in any other form than your own personal religion, than you can ask yourself the question whether or not it would be a good idea to take lessons in how to be open minded towards everything else. AND how to pass that on to your children.

There's a difference between raising a kid and molding a kid. I know that I was born in an open minded and highly tolerant country where conservatives do not dominate, but even for a closed minded place such as America I find this idea going a bit too far.

But ah, when the kid is older the kid won't know any better. Everyone does to and with their offspring what they want. Some will just have a little more trouble with their kids once they hit puberty than others.