When Atheists and Christians collide
Posted
January 20, 2007 at
5:03 pm by
Jessica
When atheists and Christians raise children together, the result is often times competitive and humorous when the atheist tries to squelch the faith that the Christian tries to nurture. My mother, an Evangelical Christian, uses every opportunity to influence our children to the disgrace of their atheist father. Knowing that her Christian-in-theory-and-not-practice daughter and her heathen son-in-law aren’t going to properly “church” her grandchildren, Grandma has taken it upon herself to save them from the wrath of darkness, evil and hell. She does this, oh-so-subtly, by mailing us Christian inspired merchandise tucked in between other gifts like a t-shirt or toy. One of the recent offerings was a CD of Christian songs sung by a group of children.
My children love this CD, bestowing upon my husband a feeling of helplessness and pure annoyance. Not only does our 3-year-old love to turn it up like it’s Freedom Rock, both our kids sing along with robust glory and without inhibition.
As I said before, I’m a pseudo-Christian (I believe from afar — Sundays are for laying on the couch until noon) so I find this incredibly amusing. Prescott — not-so-much.
One of their favorite songs is Who built the Ark?, a ditty about Noah and his wacky adventures. The chorus is supposed to be, “Who built the Ark? Noah, Noah! Who built the Ark? Brother Noah built the Ark!” Prescott, however, has bastardized the song and worked his influence into an innocent and spiritual moment by teaching the kids new words to the song. We now have kids that, while in public, have no problem belting out, “Who built the Ark? No one! No one! Who built the Ark? No one really built the Ark!”
So, it’s gonna be like that, huh? Wait until I sell Holden on God-camp this summer. We will see who’s able to influence these young minds more.
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1. Michael said:
January 29, 2007 @ 12:05 am
While I understand that a high percentage of the While I understand that a significant percentage of the US population believes in some form of supernatural force, Those who have been schooled in statistical analysis– a prerequisite of science have so far found NO support for that hypothesis.
To train children to believe in low probability hypotheses is to enable them to believe in ANYTHING: fairies, devils, superior or inferior races, whatever. We need a citizenry that is rational if this Society is to survive, Teaching them otherwise is to do them ane us all serious disservice
2. Beta Mum said:
June 27, 2007 @ 11:21 am
Some friends of mine had one child at a catholic school and the other at a protestant pre-school. I envisaged arguments over the cornflakes along the lines of -
“the communion wafer IS the body of Christ”
“no, it just REPRESENTS the body of Christ”
“it’s transubstantiation”
“no, it’s consubstantiation”
“pass the milk will you? And just shut up about Christ.”
3. linda said:
June 27, 2007 @ 7:46 pm
It’s interesting that you would say one parent is Christian and one is a “heathen”. After reading the blod ent ry, it seems to me that both mom and dad are heathens and Grandma is doing her best to try to incorporate a little Godliness into her grandchildren’s lives! Kudos for her.
4. Jessica said:
June 28, 2007 @ 4:28 pm
“no, it just REPRESENTS the body of Christ”
“it’s transubstantiation”
“no, it’s consubstantiation”
“pass the milk will you? And just shut up about Christ.”[/quote]
Too funny. Almost sounds existential.