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Re: Things you plan on doing when/if you have kids

[(Anonymous)]

Where Christianity was concerned, I was raised much like you've described. What troubled me is that, well, if God loves me, how come bad things still happen to me? If God loves everybody, how come bad things happen to other people who don't deserve it? The problem is that there isn't really a good response to that. "It's God's will" and "God works in mysterious ways" set off my bullshit alarm even as a child. "Sometimes God wants us to learn a lesson from bad things that happen" was even worse, because I thought, what kind of god lets people get hurt or die just so they can learn a lesson?

I admire that you're going to teach your hypothetical children that religion isn't about judgement and controlling other people. But I hope you're preparing a lot of answers and discussion for if/when they find out that 1) the Bible is chock full of judgements on people for not behaving the "right" way and 2) a huge part of fundamentalist religion most certainly is about controlling people via influencing the law. Otherwise, I imagine they're in for a lot of confusion.

Re: Things you plan on doing when/if you have kids

[jaybie_jarrett]

To answer that I'd probably tell my kids more like "a lot of times it's not so much God as other people being flawed and the price of free choice. There are some bad people out there who do bad things. Freedom of choice is a great wonderful thing, but some people out there because people are flawed do bad things with it. Basically it's a mixture of free choice and the price of our knowledge" Personally I find that to be a better answer. Saying it's a price of the freedom to choose puts the responsibility back to people who do bad things and shows that sometimes things that sound good and certain freedoms will come with consequences that we may not foresee.


Yeah I'm aware of those. In my opinion,that was a time when there were more strict laws in place and sort of a product of the times they came from, but a lot of it , like the rules of the old testament today would be harsh and proven by time to be not needed.

Also some things are not understood and translated as well in today's world. Like the whole problem with Sodom and Gammorah wasn't homosexuality but the fact that the people in that city were basically marching up to the new people they found (the angels) and demanded them be handed over for sex. That's not how sex is supposed to work , it should be done with the consent of people involved. The people of the towns had very warped and wrong intentions...not a bad sexuality.

There's a lot of stuff like the thing about not sleeping with men as they sleep with women which is about not treating fellow men as they do women or just a hygiene thing (don't sleep in the same bed)There were some very specific rules in there about little stuff like fibers and stuff so it could be mix of those two things. If it were about homosexuality itself it would be worded differently I think "men don't sleep with men and women don't sleep with women"

I hope that answers your question