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What did my parents tell me......

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Tetsu:
Personally my parents were catholics. Luckily not hardcore but you know they were pretty dang flexible on what they told me. They told me the same old you get into heaven if your good stuff....difference is that they said if I was bad that I wouldn't go to hell per say, they just said that I wouldn't get in. Like i'd have to sit outside or something, until the people that prayed for my soul did enough praying to convince God to let me in. So basically I had to be good anyways just to get enough people to say "Yeah he should get into heaven he was a good guy". <.< Its pretty lame but it sure is pretty dang comforting as a kid, heck it even kept me catholic...but not the bible tumper kind, you know the kind thats just like...when you wanna learn bout my religion just ask and you'll find out the knowledge...and god damn this is really just me ranting now...i'll stop.

Auberon:
I dunno. My parents were Catholic and naturally, so was I during my childhood and early teens, until I started to question everything. I guess it's something I've thought about once or twice, but I'd rather discuss it with their mother. I wouldn't really wanna throw in what might be considered a harsh concept for a child as nonexistence, but I wouldn't want to lie to him and contradict myself in some other things I may say or have said to him. If you forced me to give an answer, it'd be something along the lines of: 'Not much, really. There's no afterlife, but your body does return to nature. Your body decomposes and becomes fertilizer, which feeds and gives life to plants, which in turn bears nourishment to animals, who then give life and sustenance to other animals. You pretty much keep the whole cycle of nature going. If you're cremated...I dunno, you give some guy's hamburger or ribs the kick it needs and contribute to global warming.'

That last part might be excluded until the kid's old enough to understand sarcasm and my rather cynical and dark humor. Joe bless you!

Aurjay:
My parents were raised hardcore Southern Baptist but oddly once they were adults and had me we never went to church very much. Both me and my brother were allowed to form our own opinions on religion. My brother who is 16yrs younger than me is now going to a very good school that happens to be Southern Baptist and therfore has been forced to follow ideals that he might not have believed in otherwise. So me and my brother get into very heated debates on the subject of evolution and religion. I do feel though that it is not my place to "convert" him to atheism since i feel it is up to each individual person to make that choice for themselves. All i can do is try and counter some of the "brainwashing" that the school has done. For instance...How old the earth is and when dinosaurs roamed the planet. Carbon dating is damn near the closest thing to an exact science there is, yet people still dispute it. I myself am completly understanding in the whole Intelligence Design concept as it seems to be the best of both worlds. 

Nightson:
"It's like going to sleep, except without the having to wake up part."

Min Min:
I'm a fairly hard core atheist and my wife is a lapsed catholic. We have three girls, the oldest of whom is nearly 13. So the question has come up several times.

We're honest, right up front. When asked the question of what happens after death or where is a loved one who has passed we answer by saying that we don't know for sure but we believe you just stop. But we also tell them that a lot of people think different things. We usually talk about people who believe in God and we tell them their mother's parents believe that and some people believe other things, including that you just end.

As far as I'm concerned I really don't care what they end up believing as long as they question everything.

Personally, I don't understand why people have such a problem coping with not existing after death. After all, we get a hell of a lot of practise at it before we're born :)

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