I see no reason why I should believe the Christian faith. Just like Christians see no reason to believe my beliefs. I don’t push my beliefs on you, I would be grateful if you didn’t push your beliefs on me and my kids. I don’t run to your kids telling them that your belief in a god is silly, now do I? When my kids are old enough to decide a religion, they are free to do so. I won’t disown them if they believe something I don’t. Religion is something that every person must decide for themselves. It shouldn’t be forced on them and I won’t push my kids to believe what I do. It’s just not right.
I don’t think that anyone should be forced into a religion. I don’t think someone should be scared into a religion. I don’t think that people should try to force and/or scare someone into a religion. I don’t see where sharing your religious belief with someone is wrong, but I don’t think you should try to convert someone into your religion. If a person wants to know about your religion and then say they want to adopt your religion, they should be able to.
I don’t have a problem with people believing in a god. I have good friends that believe in a god and they are very good people. Just because you believe in a god, doesn’t mean that everyone should believe. The friends I have that do believe in a god, don’t shove their beliefs down my throat and I don’t push my beliefs on them. That’s the way it should be. You can’t make someone believe something by throwing it at them every time you see them. It doesn’t work like that.
The only that happens when you start shoving your religion down another person’s throat that doesn’t believe it is push them away. You push them away doing that because when you do that, it’s just plain annoying. It bugs the hell out of us and we don’t want to hear you preaching to us all the damn time. And we don’t want to hear you get pissy when we don’t convert. So, we just don’t mess with you. It’s just that simple.
But when you start pushing your beliefs on our kids that aren’t old enough to make that decision it’s going beyond annoying us. It pisses us off. It pisses us off because we don’t go to your kids and tell them there is no god. We don’t push our beliefs on your kids when you don’t listen to us and don’t believe what we do. Keep your religion away from my kids. When they’re old enough to understand religion, I will teach them all the religions that I’m aware of and they can make their own choice, not before.

Have you read http://onfaith.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/paula_kirby/2011/02/religion_the_ultimate_tyranny.html ?
ReplyDeleteI know Paula and she's very perceptive.
That's a good site. Thank you for the link.
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