24 Jun 19
-Removed-Are the 'tools' that parents [hopefully, ideally] give their children so that they can arrive at [for example] historical perspectives or political stances of their own more or less the same 'tools' that people use to analyze or arrive at their spiritual perspectives?
25 Jun 19
@patzering saidI think that parents should curl up into a fetal ball of mush and hide all their beliefs from their children so that the state can raise them properly.
I think parents should do and be what they like and let their kids observe and decide for themselves what they want to do and be and the parents should support them.
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25 Jun 19
@fmf saidAs an atheist without kids, my experience with this question is rather feeble.
Without necessarily giving away any biographical details, what lengths do you feel parents should go to to produce teenage and adult offspring who share their parents' spiritual beliefs?
The best I can do is make a parallel with vegetarianism (something I can relate to) and whether vegetarian parents should raise their children as vegetarians. To this, I would answer that it is perfectly understandable that such parents would choose to raise their children as non-meat eaters and to educate them as to why they themselves had chosen not to eat meat. However, they should also bring their children up to think for themselves and be accepting of their child if later in life they decided to eat meat.
26 Jun 19
@fmf saidIt's not possible to do it.
Without necessarily giving away any biographical details, what lengths do you feel parents should go to to produce teenage and adult offspring who share their parents' spiritual beliefs?
My parents tried their honest best to do it with me, and they failed.
Why? Because people are going to follow their own Spiritual paths, regardless of what others tell them to do.