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I was born and raised Catholic, but have known that it wasn't my path since 9th grade (same with my husband). And now I am worried about what to say to my son as far as religion goes. I want him to make his own mind up, but I would still love to start him with some kind of base. Any suggestions? BTW...we still do practice all holidays, so I do explain to him what they are all about. But, even that is hard for me since I don't believe just the basics being 100% truthful.

Quakerism isn't my religion, but if I reccomend you look closely at it.

What about Quakerism do you recommend?

well I too am one of those used to be catholic...... for me though I just don't like the church. I found buddism to be a nice solid place to start, it is not actually a religon but a philosopy.

We have had religion talks since DS9 was about 6 he "stole" a bible from the hotel we were at because he had finished the books he brought for the week. I had my own "religion quest when I was about 12 and DS was having those same kinds of questions. We are not church goers but DS has always been very spiritual. We will ask friends of his that are diffrent religions to join them in a holiday celebration or read about ones that are happening. He asked once if he had to decide what religion he was and was very relieved to know he could take as long or as little as he wanted and in fact he never had to decide on one if he didn't want to. He actually started writing a future fiction screenplay about religious persecution and it was very stunning to find that way what he is thinking and feeling about his spiritual feelings. Allow exploration and talk about all diffrent religions just like everything else with our kidlets they will find their way so better to allow them all the information their brains are thirsting for.

I think agnosticism can be a great place. It sort of like exploring from neutral ground which lets you be open to all sorts of possibilities. I once saw a bumper sticker I thought was funny, "Militant Agnostic--I don't know and neither do you!" Personally, I thought about making a bumber sticker that said, "Religions are so cool--do I have to pick just one?"

Not that I am one, but Unitarian Universalists are open to seekers and people who don't want to get too pinned down.

LOL!

ROTFLSHIPMP!!!!!! I'll buy one of your bumper stickers :-)


Edit to add ..."Opps my Dogma just ate your Karma" is one of my favs too...

That is really funny!

Hi Ienjoysoup!

I think you seem familiar from Sally's forum?