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I love including my daughter in our pagan rituals, and teaching her about the goddess myself. We are wiccan and when she's older I hope to teach her about as many religions as I can, I love religion in general. I'm one of those "there is no right religion but there is a right path for everyone that meets their general and personal belief system" ^_^

to me the bible is not a religion, its a way of life like being a vegan. Now I understand that it would be....wrong I guess to MAKE her be a christan but the way I see it I will go to church every sunday for the rest of my life and as long as she lives in my household she will take part in family happenings BUT I won't make her belive anything she doesn't want to. I don't think asking 2 hours out her week it too much to ask for. On the same note I'm not overly zealous and I know things like sex before marriage is almost unheard of in todays people so instead I'll teach her to value her body and to value sex. That it isn't somthing to give away like candy. She should save it for the man/women she truely cares about and not the frist BF/GF to ask for it

One of the reasons I left my boyfriend of 6 years was because he refused to let me raise any children we had with religion of any kind. I'm a Catholic, and I'm pretty proud of it. My mother is pagan, and I think that's fine too. But I can't teach my children that there is nothing out there. It's a huge deal to me. But I never push it on others. Faith in my family is tradition, so my kids are the only ones I'll nag into going to church. If they chose for themselves later not too, that's fine too.

When I agreed to go out with my husband I had known him for 2 years. He's a Catholic too, and that was the reason I chose to date him. I wanted to only try with like minded people. And I'm glad I did. Our daughter, Grace was baptised in my church and my son, when he's born, will be too.

Faith, regardless of the denomination, teaches love and really enforces good morals. I'm sure that these can be taught outside of church too, but having faith in God gives my life some meaning and purpose other than just being an animal and breeding to continue my species.

My daughter will be raised in an open, spiritually neutral environment; she will be free to look into and pursue any religion she chooses, without her parents trying to influence her.

To me, religion is a very personal thing, and I find raising children in any religion to be immoral. It denies them the opportunity to explore their own spirituality for themselves, and I'd hate to limit my child in that way.
(No offense intended to anyone here that will raise their children religiously, this is just my personal opinion.)

They have a link for pegen parents on the front page, go there and ask qustion or post somthing here asking qustions I know we have atleast one pegen mom here too. I have no idea how that stuff works ether lol

Yes, but it's mostly my in-laws.
Mind you, Terry's parents, his brother and his wife b***h and whine about how terrible it is that we don't practice their religion anymore all the time anyway, so it's nothing new.

How about you?

When we decided to let him chose and we didn't baptise him, people were weirded out. My husband Matt's parents have both passed and I only have my mom left and she's always been wishy-washy on religion so no problems there. I just find that it's co-workers who think it's strange or bad.