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Originally posted by Starboy,
I was giving suburbanite the benifit of the doubt and assuming that the party that would feel betrayed were the parents, not the child. As you pointed out, a devoutly Christian child becoming an atheist because their parents are devoutly Christian is absurd. Certainly possible but I would suspect not very common if it happened at all.
Starboy |
I figured it was an even more unlikely possibility that a Christian family would have the PARENTS turn athiest and "betray" the child. Either way, I don't see it as anything other than a well reasoned and usually very difficult decision on an atheists part.
Religion has such a grip on people that they will turn on their closest friends and relatives over this, trading the here and now for a promise of an afterlife later. Atheists know what they are getting into but do it anyway. Considering the likely cost to themselves I have no doubt they do NOT do it just to "rebel".
(P.S. To Suburbanite. Your quotes are fixed in the previous post)