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Wolfgang - You say you send your child to school for religious instruction but that later on she can decide for herself - HUH?

Religious instruction (don't you mean indoctrination?) when taught to young children becomes part of their vision of the world. If your child decides not to conform, there will be lots of doubt and guilt. Why do you send you child for this type of instruction if you are not a believer? Wouldn't it be easier to let her find God on her own? Or not find God (whichever the case may be)?

I wasn't baptised or indoctrinated by any specific church. I do, however, believe. I remember, "Seek and you shall find." If you don't seek, you don't find. If you do seek, you will find. Seems simple to me.

Of course, each of us will find something different. So much for one God. The essence is within all of us. We can choose goodness and light or dwell in darkness and despair.

Religion might be another name for obsessive compulsive disorder and taken to extremes may manifest itself as omnipotence.

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