its complicated for me because i grew up with a jewish father and an agnostic mother who was americana christian (easter bunny and santa, no jesus) and identified as jewish growing up. it IS required of jews. BUT, these are the same people who also require you to have a jewish mother to be jewish. children of jewish fathers are considered non-jewish and must convert. part of the reason i wanted ben circumsized was so that maybe he could be accepted when he got older? lol. by "blood" he is 1/4 jewish and by jewish law, he is 0. my mother wasn't jewish, so i am not, so he is not. done deal. if he wants to convert, i guess this one small issue will already be taken care of, but that seems pretty unlikely at this point. we are raising our children with very little religion, but answering questions as best we can as they ask. they go to jewish and christian holidays with family members. they've been to religious services a handful of times for both religions. but at this age, its here color this paper.
i do have HUGE issues with christians prothelitizing though (sorry about the mangled spelling) by telling children that they will burn in hell if they don't accept jesus into their hearts. that happened to me and to my husband as children and we both agree as adults that its emotional abuse to do that to kids, especially if they aren't yours.
PS: not sure what religion you are and hope i didn't offend as that wasn't my intent. but this is my journal and i feel if i can't be honest here, where can i? i appreciated your story very much and i feel that there are probably a lot more families like ours than either of us realize (where the eldest son is cut and then research and perhaps the actual experience caused the family to make a different decision for future children)
Im a Christian. Gotta wonder what Bible *those* Christians were reading. It sure wasnt the Bible of my Father! Not going to get into the whole religion thing here, but His word is clear. Everyone has a choice and its yours to make, not God's. He gives clear instruction on consequences of our actions and choices. We choose to believe, or deny. As for children, they cant make that choice, as they dont understand it. Children are to be taught the love God has for us. His love, His sacrifice, His gift. When one understands that, the choice comes later. :)
i do have HUGE issues with christians prothelitizing though (sorry about the mangled spelling) by telling children that they will burn in hell if they don't accept jesus into their hearts. that happened to me and to my husband as children and we both agree as adults that its emotional abuse to do that to kids, especially if they aren't yours.
PS: not sure what religion you are and hope i didn't offend as that wasn't my intent. but this is my journal and i feel if i can't be honest here, where can i? i appreciated your story very much and i feel that there are probably a lot more families like ours than either of us realize (where the eldest son is cut and then research and perhaps the actual experience caused the family to make a different decision for future children)
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