Friendly Atheist

I don’t get why the kid started crying. Unless the dad was using a scary voice, but then it’s the voice, not what is being said that makes him cry. Say it in a sweet, cooing sort of way and the kid would eat it up.

My four year old son came home from Grandma’s last week and to my surprise started reciting the “here is the church here is the steeple” bit. I was cringing even before he finished. However, when he folded his fingers on the outside without realising it and said, “Open the doors and see ‘no’ people” I began laughing my ass off and told him to go back and teach grandma that version.

Why not? Religions are pernicious frauds, mass delusions, individual and societal mental illnesses, that may have already caused our slow motion extinction with their misdirection and antisciencism, on top of the continuous wars and inhumanity to it’s victims including the parasitized believers.

Are kids to be indoctrinated without alternative rhymes for the common indoctination games? Sure it could be written better but to let it go doesn’t cut it eiher.

Vivian,

PLUS she’s only 4 years old. advanced critical thinking won’t develop until about 8 years old so her believing in Heaven is no different than Santa or the Easter Bunny, it’ll subside naturally.

My wife and I are teaching our son the old fashioned way: with the truth. Wait, maybe that’s not old fashioned. Anyway, my son is 4. The cat died, and he didn’t go to Heaven or Outer Space, he just stopped breathing. Because he was old, and old organisms die.