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Curious and not sure why. How many our our struggling adult kids are atheists?
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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 647802" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>I happen to live one of the most secular corner of the world and atheism or agnosticism is more or less the norm, especially among young adults. And even though many of atheists and agnostics are church members for other reasons. Both of my sons are part of that majority, they are members, pay their church taxes voluntarily, but I think neither of them believes in anything supernatural. I'm not totally sure about Joy, he has never outright talked about his beliefs (faith is considered to be extremely intimate topic in our society, it is totally normal, that you do not know if your spouse, child or parent has some set of beliefs or not; most of us would be more open to talk about our sex lives to people than our faith, only militant atheists or more modern, 'new born' Christians tend to make an exception), but I do think he is either atheist or agnostic. Ache has mentioned that he is an atheist few times, but chooses to stay Church member for social and charity reasons - or because he is too lazy to fill the form to resign (he says it is the first, I partly suspect the latter.)</p><p></p><p>Because my own belief system is what it is and how I understand faith, I'm not bothered by my kids being non-believers at this point of their lives. They may accompany us to certain Church functions if they wish, and often they wish to come for example Christmas night service, if they rather not, it is their business. And their faith or lack of it is matter between them and God and I'm not a participant in that relationship. </p><p></p><p>And I understand very well, why atheists who live among Christians (and from our point of view for example USA is incredibly Christian and religion run society) do attack against Christianity. Being a non-believer of the Easter Bunny does not come with negative side effects, neither do believers of Easter Bunny try to set expectation for non-belivers, or only at Easter time at the most. It is the main religion of the area, that tends to set expectations also for non-believers or give negative consequences for being a non-believer, so it only makes sense, that for the non-believer the main religion of the area (or the religion their parents tried to raise them to follow) is the enemy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 647802, member: 14557"] I happen to live one of the most secular corner of the world and atheism or agnosticism is more or less the norm, especially among young adults. And even though many of atheists and agnostics are church members for other reasons. Both of my sons are part of that majority, they are members, pay their church taxes voluntarily, but I think neither of them believes in anything supernatural. I'm not totally sure about Joy, he has never outright talked about his beliefs (faith is considered to be extremely intimate topic in our society, it is totally normal, that you do not know if your spouse, child or parent has some set of beliefs or not; most of us would be more open to talk about our sex lives to people than our faith, only militant atheists or more modern, 'new born' Christians tend to make an exception), but I do think he is either atheist or agnostic. Ache has mentioned that he is an atheist few times, but chooses to stay Church member for social and charity reasons - or because he is too lazy to fill the form to resign (he says it is the first, I partly suspect the latter.) Because my own belief system is what it is and how I understand faith, I'm not bothered by my kids being non-believers at this point of their lives. They may accompany us to certain Church functions if they wish, and often they wish to come for example Christmas night service, if they rather not, it is their business. And their faith or lack of it is matter between them and God and I'm not a participant in that relationship. And I understand very well, why atheists who live among Christians (and from our point of view for example USA is incredibly Christian and religion run society) do attack against Christianity. Being a non-believer of the Easter Bunny does not come with negative side effects, neither do believers of Easter Bunny try to set expectation for non-belivers, or only at Easter time at the most. It is the main religion of the area, that tends to set expectations also for non-believers or give negative consequences for being a non-believer, so it only makes sense, that for the non-believer the main religion of the area (or the religion their parents tried to raise them to follow) is the enemy. [/QUOTE]
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