My son is quickly nearing the age where he’s going to start asking big questions, like “where are we from?”, “why are we here?”, “what’s God”, etc. I’m faced with a problem which I’m unsure as to how to solve: what do I tell him?
I’ve long thought that indoctrinating small children with religion is not [...]
Religion
Religion and Small Children
One Religion to Rule Them All…
Yesterday while at church with my mom, I was thinking about the fact that many religious people know little to nothing about other religions. If asked why they have no interest in other religions, they’ll often respond with something that runs like, “This is the right religion for me, I know it, I don’t need to look [...]
Spoken to by the preacher
I ended up meeting with the preacher on Tuesday; we went to a coffee shop, had some good coffee, and talked. It went well enough: he was respectful of me being doubtful (to put it mildly) about the Christian faith, and had no problems with me being honest about my thoughts on the matter.
I did [...]
Chased down by the preacher
I wrote about 8 months ago about some religious discomfort I was experiencing. The discomfort stemmed from me being Buddhist, and my mom being Christian, whom I regularly took (and still take) to church. My last entry on this topic was actually about some of the discomfort being lifted; my mom had shared with the [...]
Some more reflections on our Buddhism group
I posted a few days back about the Buddhist group I’m in, and the ups and downs that group has experienced. This is a bit of a continuation of that post, with some random thoughts and comments thrown in for good measure.
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Our group met two evenings ago, on Tuesday, at the conference room of a [...]
