When should I tell my son that God is fake?
 

When should I tell my son God is fake?
My son is 9 and he now knows that Santa is made up. When do I tell him the truth about God being made up too?

I tried looking all around us, I didnt see God. Where should I look? Is it like Hide And Seek?

Answer:
Why in the world would you just lie to your son like that? God isn't fake. He's right here. with us. Always. even though sometimes it doesn't seem like it, he is.

Who else created this world?
evolution just doesn't make sense.
if evolution was real, then we would have come from PLANTS and plants work very very differntly than we do. They get food off of photosynitis and we eat. They dont even have blood! and dont tell me that it "evolved" because what could it evole from? all the animals out there-- yes, even the ape. Our intelligence level is really high, we have emotions, we make amazing things, we are very different! And if you deny this, you may just be lying to yourself. We are WAYY to complex to just come from...nothing. In the sum of it all there HAS to be a higher power, someone who created us. And if you look around, science proves it! Albert Einstien became more of a christian because he studied science, and figured out how everything worked. but in the end its your decision.
your choice-not mine.

Tough one, I still have time to think about this one.

Except for the part where Einstein was Jewish and shit.

Does God exist? Interesting question.

Does a teacher exist? Does a genius exist? Does a retard exist? Does Karen O exist?

These are all titles and lables. It is difficult to figure out.

I'm a firm believer in letting your children know what you believe and why you believe it and then giving them the freedom to do research and decide as to what they believe.

sorry...this is from Yahoo Answers

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/in...8071454AAh1Ej3

Actually Einstein was Jewish and near the end started to QUESTION religion. Heh I love how people don't even need facts to have opinions. I guess that makes believing in invisible things easier.

Einstein was never a Christian. He never took anything in the Bible as fact. He was at best a deist which is almost an agnostic.

:1orglaugh Yo, smack your science teacher...

No one of any real intelligence believes that the bible is more than %10 truth.

Belief in a higher power is another thing but that power is no different that a force like gravity unless you believe in aliens seeding our planet.

Junior here, did have a point.

Nobody could ever prove God does NOT exist either :2 cents:

volcanoes are just bins of alien cum. I thought that was common knowledge. Anyone who doesn't believe it is getting war declared on them. Sheeeeeittt

God did not create man, man however created God.

after you die ;)

Except for the part where Einstein was pantheist and shit.

You're both wrong :thumbsup

You also couldn't disprove the existence of my friend Johnny who tells me to masturbate every day at 4:30pm to elephants mating.

Things existing only in your head cannot be disproven simply because they exist only in your head.. no where in nature, with any empirical evidence or data to back them up.

Right before he strikes you dead for saying he doesnt exist.

j/k, probably just after you explain the Santa Claus cover up.

Yep I think I agree with this.

Tell him the whole jesus bit was made by the Roman Empire.

Never, let him decide for himself.

The day after you tell him the world is not flat which will be about 10 minutes after he realises that you are more stupid than he is fucktard

yeh, same as letting him decide if the world is flat and if the tooth fairy lives, what a fucking idiot you are :2 cents:

Just tell him God is on a holiday

True :winkwink:

Mankind always been seeking for evidence, prove and data.

Maybe God, nature/universe/love/etc. are all the same, who really knows?

The sooner the better.:2 cents:

Trouble is that if you start impressing your beliefs upon them at too young an age they don't know any better. My wife is a christian, I'm not, my 4 year old daughter goes to church and talks about jesus and god... I'm not 100% happy with that.

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thy shall not steal

"God isn't fake. He's right here. with us. Always. even though sometimes it doesn't seem like it, he is."


Post proof or be banned!

This is why religion is forbidden in state schools in the country I live in.

We tell our kids to listen to teachers, and then when they teach such drivel we must tell them to ignore these parts. Fuck that.
Religion belongs in churches, synagogues, mosques, anywhere but where I send my kids.

Thank you very much, but screw that.

Strange example to give - If I were with you at 4:30pm and you said that Johnny told you to masturbate, and knowing that I can see, I'd say Johnny didn't exist in reality.

However, should you say, 20 years ago, Johnny existed and every day he told me to masturbate, and each time he told me I documented it, then yeah, I couldn't disagree with you, since I have no knowing that he existed or not.

probably most relevant comment

pray to me ..

How do you know God is fake? What if you tell him God is fake and God turns out to be real? That would really fucking suck! Why don't you just let him figure it out for himself, the way he will probably have to figure out how to have sex (unless you are going to teach him how to do that too).

it would be just as silly to say god is fake as it would be to say god is real. Neither statement is based on any facts.

you should be very honest and tell the kid your g_d is fake. you have no idea if others g_d is fake or not

when you get solid proof he's fake

just let him guess that one by himself...

Don;t he will figure it out.

Just send his ass to college and have him take some philosophy classes.

Come on you guys aren't afraid of a little "Judgement Day" action are you? You just don't know do ya.... until your dead. Roll the dice!

You present a false dichotomy here. In theory, you can't disprove my statement of "There is a large teapot on the other side of the moon". Does this mean anything? No - because the likelihood of either option being true/false is not 50/50.

Also, the burden of proof rests upon the person making the claim. There's no need for someone to "disprove" God unless you can provide evidence to support your claim.

Don't get me wrong - I'm sure people get by just fine without going deep into the whole God/No God debate. If you want to believe that someone's looking over you, be my guest. Just don't start blowing people up and stuff, then it gets bad. :)

God is in all of us, it's called our conscience. No higher being. God was made up to scare the masses. So was the devil. When the intelligent ones (and crazies lol) realized 'bull shit!' they had to create government policing. God's too busy killing the innocent, starving the poor - to punish the thieves and sinners.

don't worry about telling him about god, usually grade 6 is when reasoning kicks in. ...take me to your leader. beam me up scottie. nanoo-nanoo!

well... Homer Simpson did!

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So, you're telling me. WE are too complex to have come from nothing.

............. but GOD isn't too complex to have come from nothing?


Ohhhhhhhhhh that's right. When talking about the gee oh dee, rules go out the window. :arcadefre

here it is: http://religiousfreaks.com/2006/04/1...-doesnt-exist/

if youre not religious how did he get the god brainwashing in the first place?

Why force either your belief or your non-belief onto him in the first place?