04-03-2008, 10:15 PM
@Veelana - I don't know where I stand with him on that front. My parents are Christians, but they don't really practice, and I have fond memories of euphemised Bible stories and singing hymns every assembley, and at Christmas carols... But, funnily enough, R.E. lessons when I was about, oh, seven-or-so usurped any Faith I had (to be honest, I was more interested in finding fairies at the bottom of the garden). I think it was after we looked at Diwali, Rama and Sita, Bar and Bat Mitzvahs and were moving onto the five Ks of Sikhism that I began to be puzzled over how they couldn't all be right, and yet everyone believed with equal strength that they were... which either meant the particulars were very bland and humanity had fabricated upon them through so many branches, or they were all wrong. So I just sort of distanced myself and carried on learning. ^ ^;
The children situation is so difficult... but I think I will educate any future children of mine about the religions I know, and just revel in the culture. I'll let them make up their own minds. But heck, I don't even know what the father of these hypothetical children will be like. xD;
I think Dawkins over-inflates the issue a bit, but I'm a bit tired and can't say how. It's a lot to do with thinking, if I really want to make a decision, I should spend time researching psychology's take on moral development, and anything to do with children and religion, first.
@Yreka - For A-level exams. *nods* We're doing Wuthering Heights alongside. Usually, for me, studying things in-depth (unless it's clear you're extracting useless dribble that isn't really there, as it seemed the case with some poems at the lower level of GCSE) makes things more enjoyable for me. ^ ^; That's usually what people complain about, doing a book to death...
I read something about Dawkins looking and sounding like Professor Yaffle from Bagpuss. xDD Plus he introduces such extraordinary things, which keeps me hooked (poems by A.A. Milne, any quote by Douglas Adams...)
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