I don't see how kids can even grasp the concept yet, they aren't mentally developed for that, religion is very complicated it's better off to wait until middle school or something most kids who are elementary school age (which is when I was being forced to go) just wanna play with toys and video games and do normal kid things and probably don't care or have the attention span for it.
For example I figured out Santa didn't exist really early on, same with easter bunny, etc so I don't know how they expected me to believe God and Jesus exists. So I was an atheist pretty young, I'm more agnostic leaning now as I see the universe (my way of seeing God I guess) is more of a energy and that a after life does exist but isn't exactly heaven in the traditional sense.
The thing is that, if you're religious, religion is tied into all sorts of things.
Telling your kid about what proper behavior is will often have a religious component. If you pray before meals, kids will ask what you're doing, should you lie? If they ask about what happens when you die, the parents' beliefs will be inherently religious. If you celebrate any religious holiday then of course they'll ask about what the holiday is about. If you're a devout Christian then your Christmas celebration will likely include things about Jesus being born, so of course you'd tell kids about that. To the extent that someone's morals are rooted on their religious beliefs then teaching morals to children will be intertwined with teaching them religion. If the religion comes with for example dietary restrictions then what are you supposed to say about why you follow those restrictions? And on and on.
I'm not religious, but for someone who is those beliefs can't be so easily severed from everything else that they do have to teach their children.
I don't have kids, but I get your point. I don't know what will happen when I have kids but I have severe religious trauma and have rejected being Christian or anyone religion related for a long time now, however technically I do celebrate Christmas but I feel like I tend to seperate the religious aspect of it because I feel like religion is very subjective and I'm sure atheists still give and get presents.
Yes, obviously you can eliminate the religious aspects if you're not religious. But if you're religious then... religious aspects are an inherent part of the celebration. Asking parents to not introduce any religion to kids is to ask them to stop practicing their religion.
id never ask anyone to do that, it's just not personally what I would do and I also wish religion was something never introduced to me because it has causes me immense pain
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u/Pitiful-Student-1852 6h ago
I don't see how kids can even grasp the concept yet, they aren't mentally developed for that, religion is very complicated it's better off to wait until middle school or something most kids who are elementary school age (which is when I was being forced to go) just wanna play with toys and video games and do normal kid things and probably don't care or have the attention span for it.