If you believe in a god or doctrine, and you wish to be a truly loving and wise person and raise loving and wise children, do you have the courage to tell your children:
that people with differing beliefs are still good people?
that people may find different ways to find comfort and meaning and these ways are viable and genuine and worthy?
if you "know" everything already, you will never learn anything?
that thinking for one's self is a treasure?
if what is "true" doesn't make sense, it may not be true?
that people who do not share your belief system are still thinking, loving individuals?
that people who have well-thought-out absence of religion are worth listening to and learning from?
that there is more to the world than a hundreds-of-times rewritten and redefined collection of nomadic stories of questionable origin?
that when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of creating behavioral guides that serve all human needs?
that, if they try hard, there is so much wisdom to learn in the world?
that guilt and shame are useless motivators?
that it is wisdom to question and research and open their minds to what they didn't know that they didn't know?
that a person can know what is right and wrong by exploring their own hearts?
that is it more honest to answer "I don't know" to some questions?
that no human is superior to any other because of their beliefs?
that most people are well-meaning?
if your world view demonizes anyone at all, no matter how unfamiliar, it needs changing?
Are You a Couragous Believer?
by Karen Loethen
Jan 6
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f you believe in a god or doctrine, and you wish to be a truly loving and wise person and raise loving and wise children, do you have the courage to tell your children:
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