Posted by:
Lost Mystic
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Date: September 15, 2011 10:13PM
My son goes to a RC school, but he isn't Catholic. He has a religion test tomorrow, and my wife was helping him review. When she was asking him about Noah and the flood, he answered correctly, then followed up with "but none of that really happened...it doesn't make sense."
My wife believes it's a mere story as well, but she said it was the "way" he said it...which she thought was quite negative.
She blames me for "poisoning" our children with a negative skepticism.
Whenever I discuss alternative perspectives about bible stories, I do it in a calm manner...not with disgust.
Perhaps he feels like the teachers are lying to him because they teach it as literal, and he might resent the cog-dis of adults disagreeing on the origins of things.
I don't know...
But I'm not going to lie to him...
I even told him that no matter what, it's important to know what other people believe, and to get the answers right on the test from answering what they believe, but he doesn't have to believe it himself...and I told him how I studied many different religions in college. I read to understand, but I wasn't told to believe it.
I'm so frustrated. She has NEVER given me any problems about religion before...