Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!hou5f!hou5a!hou5d!hogpc!houxm!hocda!spanky!burl!duke!unc!bch From: bch@unc.UUCP Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: teaching religion to children - (nf) Message-ID: <5392@unc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Jun-83 23:11:02 EDT Article-I.D.: unc.5392 Posted: Wed Jun 15 23:11:02 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 17-Jun-83 09:55:51 EDT References: hp-pcd.1164 Lines: 15 By all means send your kids to xxxxxxx school! Kids are relatively impervious to the "higher" philosophical concepts involved in religious teachings, but learn well from the stories and the parables. Look at it this way...our early religious training, of whatever variety, is one of the relatively constant areas of cultural experience. We all know the stories whether we believe them or not and they have even formed a common base of understanding (such as it may be) in this forum. The values of truthfulness, loyalty, honesty, respect, ...the essentials of right and wrong seem universal to all faiths. One can hardly go wrong in giving a child this kind of fundamental training. Don't be too upset, however, if your child does not always follow the teachings of the church. This seems to be the way of the world. Byron Howes UNC - Chapel Hill