The Christians have invaded my home

Mar 19, 2007 09:17

So, I am an atheist, always have been. I have a 5 year-old son. My son came home from a friends house asking why we don't pray over our food. I told him it was because we don't believe in God. He went ballistic. These people have put the fear of their vengeful God into my son, and I am pissed. I have a friend who I have known for over a decade, and she started out as a normal person, but became a Christian somewhere along the way. She knows that I am anti-Christian; she knows that I do not want that sexist, exclusionary, bigoted shit fed to my son. Well, my son comes home from visiting her 6 year-old singing "God is bigger than the boogie-man." I ask him to stop, and tell him that God is not real, and he goes off on me. This child is 5!!!!!! In the matter of a couple of hours, my son has been brainwashed. I am furious. I will no longer keep my opinion on the non-existence of God to myself around their children. If they cannot respect my beliefs, why should I respect theirs? They had NO right to do this.

edit: It wasn't so much the singing of the song, but the fact that he was scared beyond reason when I told him the it was all pretend, and that we don't believe the same things that they believe. To add further to the problem, later he did something nice and told me he had to be nice because it was what God wanted him to do. This is exactly what I don't want my child to think about. I want him to be nice and do good things because it is the right thing to do, not because God told him to. I do not need the fear of God's retribution to be a good person, though apparently many other people do.
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