Religion
In reply to the discussion: I don’t want my wife to indoctrinate our two-year-old into religion [View all]1monster
(11,012 posts)It either. I didn't want him to have the fear that comes with the soul searching and critcally appraising and rejecting the indotrination of his parents and religious teachers that, in my life, began at birth. It took me years to reach the point that I' m at now: which is that there is more than we will ever know and perhaps that the Universe itself (including all of its componet parts of star systems, nebulas, planets, moon, comets, etc) is sentient... (Even so, I find that occasionally, I find my mind reverts back in times of stress to the comfort of the mental rituals of my early life--That passes quickly enough, but makes me realize how deeply those early teachings were inbedded in my brain.)
As for my son, at 22, he isn't sure what he believes, but at at that age, I hadn't even come near that point.