explaining god to a 3 year old

RDM said:
It depends on how it is done to be honest. At that age a child is remarkably impressionable and so if something is presented as being the right way to do things then it can take hold for quite a long time. Hence we are currently impressing on our 3 year old the importance of please and thank you. :)
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That's true, however I'm somewhat unsure why some people have immediately leapt from 'I'd like to tell my child something about religion' to 'ZOMG, he's going to indoctrinate the poor kid, he should be made atheist instead'. It's completely fallacious and unsupported by the present evidence of what jas72 has said.

Good luck with the teaching of manners to your child too. :)

Dolph said:
I find it especially ironic that most of the people who claim this tend to advocate indoctrination into the faith of atheism instead... Despite being equally unable to prove it's validity or relevance.
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It is rather curious yet not entirely unexpected, it's almost like atheism is viewed by some as the acceptable form of blind faith.

yantorsen said:
Oh I agree. But it isn't hard to look up on the web, where for example the story of Joseph is.
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True again, I wasn't sure if jas72 would want to go to those lengths first but it is a smart idea to check what you might be reading to your children before you start.
 
What the hell? Is my monitor broke or does yantorsen post 6 times in a row. Seriously whats up with that?

OP: Just tell your kid that God is in the sky and magical. Simple answer > complex bs.
 
chumpit said:
So my first question to all these "god dosn't exists" people ranting on this forum, is where and how did atoms suddenly appear out of nowhere. as any scientist will say you cant create anything from nothing so what or how did atoms suddenly com into existance?
also why did the atoms form closeslly to gether in a tight vacum when in a vacum of atoms need a strong force of heavy atoms to pull thems selfs together?
Also i would love to here the prove that god dosnt exist? because their about as much evidence that god dosnt exist as their is evidedence of how atoms became in a empty void?
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How much of your faith is based upon your belief that atoms cannot appear from nothing? Well i'm afraid to say particles appear and disappear ALL THE TIME, it's one of the key principles of quantum theory...
 
Originally Posted by chumpit
So my first question to all these "god dosn't exists" people ranting on this forum, is where and how did atoms suddenly appear out of nowhere. as any scientist will say you cant create anything from nothing so what or how did atoms suddenly com into existance?
also why did the atoms form closeslly to gether in a tight vacum when in a vacum of atoms need a strong force of heavy atoms to pull thems selfs together?
Also i would love to here the prove that god dosnt exist? because their about as much evidence that god dosnt exist as their is evidedence of how atoms became in a empty void?




People created GOD's for everything they didn't understand in ancient times didn't they.
Then science found explanations for these events and the worship of these GOD's soon dwindled.
Now the biggest question has still to be answered "where why when did it all begin" A positive answer has still to be found, So a GOD still exists as the answer to this question.
 
Reality|Bites said:
pull thems selfs together?
Also i would love to here the prove that god dosnt exist? because their about as much evidence that god dosnt exist as their is evidedence of how atoms became in a empty void?
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If God *did* exist, he'd have made sure you stopped skipping school when you should be learning English.
 
jas72 said:
Yes Ben but my wife would like him to have a belief where as goldilocks is a lie.

Even I can't explain why god exists and spiderman doesn't spiderman is much more real than god to my son.
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God is a lie so whats the difference?

The idea of teaching religion makes me sick.
 
chumpit said:
Firstly. befor ei get flamed as a reglious nut or whatever you guys like to call me.
I'd like to point out im a christian and i believe in evolution and the big bang theory. So im not a close minded idiot like some of the numpties on here think all people that have faith are.
My first agruement is to all the people that believe science disproves the existance of god.
The big bang theory, Is the "theory" not prove on how everything was created and their for has as much prove behind it as a couple of people randomly shouting figure;s that can be proven either to prove or disprove the event that happened and was never observed.
Secoundly> the big bang apperently happened when atoms popped out of nothingness and decide to act on them selfs to pull them self into a tight mass of atoms untill the pressure caused a implosions from the amount of energy formed beyound the holding capablities of the mass.
So my first question to all these "god dosn't exists" people ranting on this forum, is where and how did atoms suddenly appear out of nowhere. as any scientist will say you cant create anything from nothing so what or how did atoms suddenly com into existance?
also why did the atoms form closeslly to gether in a tight vacum when in a vacum of atoms need a strong force of heavy atoms to pull thems selfs together?
Also i would love to here the prove that god dosnt exist? because their about as much evidence that god dosnt exist as their is evidedence of how atoms became in a empty void?

and back to the orginal op answer. i would simply grow the kid as a recrational faithfull i.e teach him the values of the rweligion your assigned to i.e the morals that you where grown up and the standerd you set yourself and wait for him to be old enoth to decide for him self

also when i die and god turns out to be real the 1 hour a week i "waste" taking a look at my life wont have been a waste. while if he dosnt exist never mind.
but if he does exist all the non believes trying to force athesism down people throats are well and truely f%$£ed
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Science is rarely able to disprove the existence of something. It is able to cut to pieces flawed theroies and concepts. It is also very adept at replacing flawed theories and fuzzy minded thinking with intellectualy coherent alternatives. As examples I give you "The Ether" and "Phlogiston".

I honestly don't understand your first point. The spelling, grammar and punctuation render it unintelligible. Is english your first language by the way? :)

Atoms didn't pop out of nothingness in the big bang. The whole big bang thing is much more complex than that. The whole set of disturbing issues like: why did a bang happen, what is the universe expanding into, are there other universes, etc, are just interesting questions about the possible nature of the Multiverse. No need for supernature. Your first question is completely covered by the theories around the big bang, start of the universe, expansion of the universe, and so on. Your understanding of the issue is so poor you are not even formulating reasonable questions.

It is not for science to prove that an invention of the human mind exists or doesn't esist. The general concept of man's need to invent gods is well documented. It would be nice if one of these inventions ever manifested and proved its existence but will never happen.

I agree about teaching the child a decent moral code - but don't mix it up with religion. Organized religions are good at assimilating useful things like public holidays and moral codes - then pretending you can't have one without the other.

And finally to finish on a light note - your hour per week would be better spent with a decent book on english grammar than any religious text - at least for a year or two.

Oh, and a final thought - If I should ever die and find myself standing in front of an omnipotent supernatural deity I'm big enough to look it in the eye (assuming it is humanoid) and admit I was wrong.
 
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yantorsen said:
This is one of the truest things I've read for a while. It always seems like religious people are a lot more open minded than those who are not or at least those who are "anti-religion", even though people will try and have you believe the other way around. All to often I hear people condemn the Bible as some old book with no real truth in it, but they haven't actually looked into it at all other than perhaps what a few fools like Richard Dawkins have said.
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Not at all, you get just as many closed-minded irrational people who don't believe in god as those who do.


magick said:
And if Jesus ever does return he'll probably denounce the religious institutions just like he did last time.
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Man, that would be worth being wrong about the whole Second Coming thing :D

Would Jesus be against the culture of homophobia and semi-genocide in the name of avoiding contraception?
 
I was really religous upto the age of 6 thanks to my grandad, but then i grew out of it like i did santa. So you could tell him anything really and i think he will still find his own way later on in life.
 
EffBee said:
Science is rarely able to disprove the existence of something.
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Can we just make this clear please - science can never disprove or prove the existence of something. Science cannot make statements about reality. Philosophers and people in general (including many scientists) are free to use scientific theories as a basis for a description of reality. For example some philosophers might argue that as man evolved from the same origins as other life, he is not special or unique as the church claims. Or, people might say that mavity is caused by the curvature of spacetime implying that there exists in reality something called spacetime when of course all one can say is that a physical model which makes use of this mathematical construct is very accurate.

What really annoys me is when people who know NOTHING about science start using science to justify their position (and from experience religious people do this just as much as atheists). By the way I am agnostic.

/rant over
 
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