Confronted by an athiest

This is a true story, I once worked with a young lady who was very adamant in letting people know that she was atheist. She knew that I was Christian, so one day she confronted me and said" Don't you think you should be teaching your children all of the religious views so that they can make their own choices.", to which I replied "No I will not teach my children nine lies and one truth, I will teach them only the Truth, and when they are grown they will be the precious, darling, sweethearts that you love to live next door to." She never spoke to me again.

Good for standing up He will see you thru it!

Reading this made my morning.

Given your base belief structure, that is obviously the right and moral answer.

However, I think that it would serve you and your kids to teach them about other religions in some detail. Not so that they can make their own choice, but so they know what other people believe and the problems with those beliefs. This way your children won't get caught off guard when they meet people of other faiths.

very well said!

We have established that the Christian way of seeing and the atheist is very different.

To a Christian, they wouldn't hide from a child that some people make up Gods and believe in them, but as for teaching, they try to understand the entire way the bible explains God and how the world works and teach that. It isn't teaching "religion" or about different ways of seeing things, it is teaching about the earth, how it is run, what their purpose is, and who God is.

I don't mean a large focus on it. I was not suggesting equal representation by any means. From what I've seen, religious people who teach their children about other religious when they were growing up tend to have their children remain Christians while the ones that don't seem to have a higher rate of their children converting to something else.

All I was saying is that it is in the interest of the child to teach them what the people around them believe and what those people might try to convince them of. If they have no understand of the subject and people try to convert them then they will be more likely to convert.

Indeed, I agree with this. Heck, I teach in the kids ministry at my local church, and I just spent a lesson about how we believe we're made in God's image and how there are other beliefs out there, such as believing you're nothing but a product of nature and not created in God's image and why such a belief is dangerous.

well that did happen when my two oldest children were small, of course when they were teenagers they would hear things, and my husband always explain to them what they needed to know ( he was a big history buff ) to be honest I don't really know much about other religions, but I study the bible enough to know when something doesn't match up with the truth.

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Pro 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

Its sad how people are proud to be Atheist. Its not a following its not anything more then a belief for the individual. That was a great answer. I am an Atheist and i wouldnt go up to another Atheist and question them on their way of life. At work is not professional either. Good Job!

That was very clever and you handled yourself well, but as a former atheist, I want Christians to know atheists are not willfully rebellious and argumentative. Many are deeply hurt by the way they've been treated in the past and believe the world would be a better place with logic and reason guiding the way as opposed to blind faith in a thousands year old text. Many carry a chip on their shoulder and are combative out of hurt, and people need to know this. Instead of sarcasm that would justify an atheist's beliefs in their own mind, we need to show them the love of Christ and deep and abiding compassion. It's easy to see atheists as the adversary and for one side of a team to feel vindicated for nullifying another member of the opposing side, but the fact is Christians should extend a hand of love and friendship to these people, if ever possible, not ridicule or reaffirm their beliefs about Christians. I know from experience. Many truly are hurt and bitter and need gentle love. It's not something to laugh at after the fact for many. There is great hurt in this world, and Christians need not trample over the broken hearts of the oppressed, many of whom are indeed atheists because they have no reason to believe in the existence of a God in their silent struggles.

Hi, I'm Mike. Very good testimony. I wonder about the atheists that live in a city whose name points to a declaration of diety, heavenly bodies, Christianity or a saint. Corpus Christi, Los Angeles, St. Paul, San Francisco and so on. Would they be going to atheist meetings, rallies, support groups in such cities and talk their heads off proclaiming, 'There is no god?' What if a chapter of their anti-God campaign were asked, 'where was your chapter formed?' And they answered, 'in 'Corpus Christi.' The body of Christ is a declaration of the only begotten Son of God, the Father. And then using cash money with 'In God We Trust' on the denomination? Or even more hypocritical, dating anything they write on by declaring the 'Year of the Lord' from the year 1 to 2014 all the while denying the existence of God. Wouldn't it suit their nature if they all moved out of any of these cities simply to have two legs to stand on but then they would still have to get an identification in where ever they land and there goes the dating game all over again. Cutting their nose to spite their face would be more of a characteristic trait than just an awkward position.

People seem to confuse teaching Children to be good, with indoctrinating them into a cult.

Maybe because I was always asking why when I was a kid, that I don't really understand this.

Most of these bitter Atheists seem to come out of Fundamentalist literalistic families where a lot of mental abuse went on.

It's a big Christian worldwide community. Not everyone thinks black and white and abuses people.

I love your answer

Isn't it funny how atheists know what is best for our children. if we suggested that they should teach their children the tenets of Christianity so that they could make up their own minds, they would have a heart attack.

When I was in university, in Romania, right after the Easter holidays, a girl entered in the classroom and saluted us with the traditional, christian salute "Christ is risen" and we all responded "He is, indeed, risen". One guy, the only guy in our group (also, the only atheist) got very offended and hysterical and asked the girl why did she had to go into all that Jesus salute instead of simply saying "hello". And I responded that as long as we are in a free country, we can freely express our beliefs in every day life. If he does not believe, he does not have to respond to the salute.

I'll tell you right now when I adopt children I will certainly teach them about Christianity, unless I end up in some country where Christianity makes up less than 10% of the population.

I only stated what I thought would be beneficial for protecting the children's faith based. I certainly was not making a knowledge claim. I based my belief on my experience with people I have known who had been taught about other religions and those who had not. People I knew who had been brought up with a single religion while going uneducated about other beliefs tended to lose faith in the religion they were raised into, while those who were educated in multiple faiths tended to remain in their initial religion.