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The 'Christians were all raised by Christians' narrative is another lie

Your atheism isn't going to keep your kids from believing in God

It makes for decent enough drama, but is this actually common? Do kids raised without religion actively seek it out and convert all that often? As it turns out, yes. The most recent data on this that comes from Pew's 2008 Religious Landscape Survey, which finds that only 46 percent of people who are raised religiously unaffiliated (which includes atheists, agnostics, and those who say they're "nothing in particular") remain unaffiliated as adults. 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2014/4/28/5659984/only-30-percent-of-kids-raised-as-atheists-stay-that-way-as-adults

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What would you estimate the number of Christians in the world to be if we only included those Christians who were raised by non Christian parents and away from a Christian environment?

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I'm an atheist. I have 4 daughters. One is Catholic, one is Baptist, two are non-believers. No one tries to change another's mind. My Baptist daughter has told me I'm making a mistake but she doesn't push it, she knows better. It's no problem with ANYONE. I agree from experience, the narrative is a lie.

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I was raised by my atheist father for 13 years. I am a Christian.

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The 'Christians were all raised by Christians' narrative is another lie

Your atheism isn't going to keep your kids from believing in God

The 'Atheists were all raised by Atheists narrative is another lie

Your religiousness isn't going to keep your kids from not believing in God

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The 'Christians were all raised by Christians' narrative is another lie

Generally speaking, once people reach 'young adulthood' they will inevitably start to formulate their own thoughts on the matter & reach the their own conclusions--regardless of the parents' religion (or lack thereof)

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NumberOne(422) Disputed
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Generally speaking, once people reach 'young adulthood' they will inevitably start to formulate their own thoughts on the matter & reach the their own conclusions--regardless of the parents' religion (or lack thereof)

Not even Christians believe this, you dumb bastard. The Bible is absolutely clear that parents have a responsibility to indoctrinate their children and, contrary to your retarded opinion, reversing the long term effects of indoctrination is abundantly more complex than victims simply "reaching their own conclusions". The long term effects of indoctrination are precisely what prevents so many of them from being able to "reach their own conclusions" in the first place. Instead of talking such an incredible amount of complete shit, why not spend that time learning what you are actually talking about?

Vern Bengtson’s research shows the surprising resiliency of faith as it passes from parents to children.

For Vern Bengtson, a longtime scholar at the University of Southern California, this question has driven a career's worth of research. Thirty-five years ago, Bengtson began examining the religious beliefs and practices of more than 3,500 grandparents, parents, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. These efforts have culminated with his forthcoming study, Families and Faith: How Religion is Passed Down across Generations (Oxford University Press). The book, co-authored with research assistants Norella Putney and Susan Harris, looks at how parents seek to reproduce religious faith in their children amid an increasingly individualistic society.

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2013/august-web-only/religion-runs-in-family.html

I've said it before and I'll say it again. You are an offensively stupid moron.

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Cocopops(347) Clarified
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That more or less sums it up.

To teach children the multi-authored scriptures of a 2000 year old book and then expect them to take ''the sciences'' seriously is the mentality of close minded morons who cannot figure things out for themselves and wish to swell the numbers in their lunatic asylum by brainwashing innocent children whose undeveloped minds cannot make reasoned assessments of what they're having stuffed into their heads.

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