Tuesday, January 29, 2013

"Why I Raise My Children Without God"

From a recent CNN.com article. How would you respond?
God Does Not Teach Children to Be Good: A child should make moral choices for the right reasons. Telling him that he must behave because God is watching means that his morality will be externally focused rather than internally structured. It’s like telling a child to behave or Santa won’t bring presents. When we take God out of the picture, we place responsibility of doing the right thing onto the shoulders of our children. No, they won’t go to heaven or rule their own planets when they die, but they can sleep better at night. They will make their family proud. They will feel better about who they are. They will be decent people.
(HT:  Stand to Reason)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"we place responsibility of doing the right thing onto the shoulders of our children"

And who determines what the right thing is?

Anonymous said...

and it's better to go to hell as long as you sleep better at night while on this earth rather than go to heaven ?