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Sorry for the meta, but why is everyone downvoting what appears to be a sincere question coming from someone in a culture where religion predominates?
I agree with most of the replies here, but don't understand the downvotes to asking the question.
I think the downvotes stem from his opening line that he has some special knowledge of "the word". It implies out of the box that those who see the world differently than him just have a flaw in that they didn't know "the word". Nothing about his question needed the preamble that implied any other views than his are defective for lack of knowledge of "the word". -edit for typo.
But I am atheist now? What I meant to say was that I grew up religious and its hard for me to imagine raising a child without religion, seeing as how that's the one template I ever head.
I don't know what world view you thought i had.
I never imagined I knew your world view. I was answering about why there's so many down votes. Using the phrase, "the word" like there's some special power to it is an off-putting marker for a lot of people. I did assume, like most, that when you said "the word" you were talking about Christianity. And specifically the New Testament.
I was referring to the "word" atheist. I meant to say that in my culture, people dont really talk about atheist as a thing. I have never met anyone else who left, so I can't imagine raising kids without religion.
You and me both.
It was just a question that bothered me for a while. At times, Lemmy(and reddit more so) feel like you will hit a never without even knowing what it is.