can two ppl from diff religions.. - Page 2

Originally posted by: crazy_sunny

Why should that confuse him?

I dont know anything about any religion and stuff like that but that doesnt make me any confused ! 😛 I m think I m doing fine even without it 😊

Originally posted by: alpha_sigma

hence making me reach the same conclusion again that the only way to bring up a child of parents from diff religion is the athiest way

Originally posted by: crazy_sunny

hey but i m not atheist 😃 its just that i have my own ideas about things 😆

Originally posted by: alpha_sigma

hullo but that's exactly my point...how do we get the kid to be a good human and have faith but don't know wat to tell him about god....cause the only way i can see that happen is if we raise him in an athiest probably communist idealogy that there is no god and being a good human is THE thing to be....i mean even as adults it's difficult comprehending and making sense out of diiferent POV of diff religions on same issues...how do we expect a child to do that????😕

Originally posted by: Savia

I think being a minority is what is and it is not defined by race, religion, creed, sexuality alone. Thoughts/beliefs etc.. sometimes also make you a minority.

I am an Indian and American. Born and brought up in India but have lived here in the US for over ten years giving. I went to high school here and I went to college here; that has given me a sense of strong American Identity. I hold loyalties to both countries makes me a minority in both. In American I hear is that an Indian thing or is that part of your culture? While in India I hear you are so American or this is not America too. So I never exactly fit in. Except that here I am obviously a racial/ethnic minority as well. But that said there are those who love me and I love in both places despite me being different.

I think this is true, in most (mind you not all) places in the world, while there are slight prejudices for the most part people want to know you. They dint judge you on religion, race, etc as much as you think. Of course there are some minorities that are judged and have to sort of prove themselves a little more ( and these differ a lot by country)- in America- its blacks, gays, disabled and Muslims.. But even then I think in most cosmopolitan places majority of the people what to judge them as individuals and not their minority identity. In rural areas I think they have to prove they are "good" sometimes but people are still more than willing to accept them, the reason it takes longer I think is not hate but ignorance. Which does not make it okay, but lets admit it most places in the world if you lack education and have not being exposed to them, you are more likely to be ignorant about them.

What makes being a minority hard sometimes is not the majority but unfortunately a small loud minority.

That said I think being a minority sometimes can be a good thing, if you have right attitude about it. I think its very important as minorities to embrace the local culture as well as retain your own; when in Greece do as the Greeks, but DO not forget you are roman. Sometimes being a minority you can give a new perspective to situations, you have the ability to understand/help other people who are sort of outsiders better than people who have not been exposed to being as an outsider. I know being Indian and American and feeling like an outsiders sometimes I am now much more open to different cultures, food, traveling and much more that I would not have been if I had just been in India all my life. I think at the end of the day its your attitude to being different that makes a different either you sulk or embrace it.

As for hating everyone equally- I think thats as likely as loving everyone equally :P

Originally posted by: Savia

1) The child can be raised to be aganotic-spiritual taking whats best from both religions and praticing them in joint rituals and unique ways.

2)They can be of both religions; they pratice relegions till they are old enough to choose one or they continue praticing both all thier life finding a way for them to co-exsist later in life ( so creating a religious relatvism/agnostism)

I dont think children see the world as black and white, pysological studies show children are extremely capabale of abstract thought. If you think about their imaginative world they sometimes make absolutely no sense to parents because of this reason.The ides of right and wrong and ridigity is taught to them usually by the adults in their life. So I dont think they do think in black and white. I think yes it can be confuising but as long as both religions are not praticed ridgily and interpreted in a more liberal forms and concessions are made.Like I said previosuly.