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Would you want your kids to experience conversion between beliefs?

Asked by ninjacolin (14246points) March 1st, 2010

Today after having a huge discussion on another forum with an atheist who never had the opportunity to believe God was real, it became apparent to me that the experience of conversion is important.

To believe something is really really really really real and then to find out that it’s really really really really wrong.. to convert beliefs.. is something a LOT of people have little experience with.

Conversion, as this disussion brought out, has been such an important thing for me. These days I feel so shameless about potentially being wrong, I think it’s a good thing.

For that reason, I’m debating whether teaching the belief in Santa Clause would provide the best contextually harmless conversion experience for any mini-me’s so they can learn what it feels like to be wrong and learn what it feels like to accept it.

Conversion practice! :) Seems important to me now.. whaddya think?

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