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**casinobonusnolimit** · 05-09-2008, 02:19 AM

The issue seems completely simple: If you're Wiccan but you want your children to experience Christianity too, or Buddhism, etc., etc., do you go to church or temple and sit with them on Sunday, or just drop them off? Or do you just tell them it's cool if that's what they want to believe when they decide and never take them to church or have any participation with them over it all? Like Mary's family, do you buy a Bible or Koran and bring it home, or do you wait for them to find books at the library? (spirituality only comes to those who can read?) When will you be certain they've spent time experiencing another religion? Is the level of participation all up to them, and until what age? Can they get all of the experience they need through the home environment? Until what age does someone else have their spirituality spoken for? (When they first become a person?) Won't the home environment/parental actions form the beliefs of the child early on anyway? Is it acceptable for them to begin sacrificing goats in the livingroom at age 5 if that's what they believe?

05-09-2008, 02:19 AM	#4
casinobonusnolimit Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 439 Senior Member	The issue seems completely simple: If you're Wiccan but you want your children to experience Christianity too, or Buddhism, etc., etc., do you go to church or temple and sit with them on Sunday, or just drop them off? Or do you just tell them it's cool if that's what they want to believe when they decide and never take them to church or have any participation with them over it all? Like Mary's family, do you buy a Bible or Koran and bring it home, or do you wait for them to find books at the library? (spirituality only comes to those who can read?) When will you be certain they've spent time experiencing another religion? Is the level of participation all up to them, and until what age? Can they get all of the experience they need through the home environment? Until what age does someone else have their spirituality spoken for? (When they first become a person?) Won't the home environment/parental actions form the beliefs of the child early on anyway? Is it acceptable for them to begin sacrificing goats in the livingroom at age 5 if that's what they believe?
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