Raising Freethinkers

A son comes home from school and tells his father that another kid tried to convert him to christianity. Confused about what to believe he asks his father "What do WE believe?" His father explains that the son needs to learn how to think for himself and become his own freethinker.

Another video that I made that is similar to this one below
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKvmhhHyzFo

More books on raising freethinkers can be seen below

Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief by Dale McGowan, Molleen Matsumura, Amanda Metskas, and Jan Devor

Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion by Dale McGowan

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Freethinker
• Parenting
• Atheist

[premed2]

I missed you too! : )

[KT45]

Thanks premed2!

[NavariteAzuth]

That was actually teaching grade material. Well spoken and stated in a sense of neutrality that it should be done in the classroom as a matter of discourse, regardless of religious orient it would be a good matter to teach children critical thinking skills and have them learn to research a matter before fully trusting the position shown to them.

Excellent video, thank you much.

[KT45]

Thank you very much!

[lothrazar]

I missed you KT, this is another classic

[KT45]

thanks lothrazar

[bigcaper862]

this is pretty much what my parents said and i am glad they did

[imshooshy]

Nicely done!

Thanks for your work!

[BloggerMusicMan]

This is what any good parent should tell their children.

[AVTRU1]

Thats why we have brains to think I know I think and figure for myself

[JusticeIsWhere]

Great video: In summary of the video, Children believe from the start what we think and tell them, Yet this is their world; and as good people, in clear conscience, we must teach them to discover their own ability to reason from both sides, in finding their own positions.

[JusticeIsWhere]

Exaltation: The bible purports a special relationship with an unseen God for a ten percent tithe of the money this imaginary friend bestows upon you. Keep in mind this pulpit tax goes to the ones who are responsible for maintaining your relationship with God and not too God Him/Her-self -- OK, no eyebrows raised, then I will proceed. God made you in his image, meaning you can project an image of yourself being god like and you in self-image know God. Fine tuning is done in the image of Sunday.

[JusticeIsWhere]

Subjugation: The bible furthers a master-slave mentality that goes a long way in our present model of economic slavery where people compete to the bottom while at the top there seems very little of this competition as power and money has the mobility to move on to the next opportunity after wealth has been redistributed from the bottom to the top.

[Renegen1]

This video is biased for atheism! Freethinking, research, both sides of the story, logic, reason, religion doesn't stand a chance against that!

[JaysThoughts]

Didn't really get into how to measure how something should "make more sense" i.e. internal logical consistency or concept identification.. but for kids this would be good.

[JulesManson]

This is a great video every father and son should see together. Thank you for this, KT.

[ReligiousFiction]

I love this video!!!!