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- dtd00d, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16Well no wonder, you forgot "how to use a condom."
- Sinscriven, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15I'm kinda disheartened by the fact that any time God is mentioned there always has to be one asshat how feels like they need to be the voice of reason and science to berate people for believing in something of a higher power; as if their opinion actually mattered to the person they're preaching it to. It's as bad as evangelism.
Why can't the kid just be praised for his ability to think in those kind of terms at that age, and leave it at that? - TomFrost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Right -- for anything to exist, it would have had to be created somehow. God, Satan, and the exploding mass of all-encompassing matter that formed the contents of the universe. Oh *****, I forgot! That last one needs to be accepted as "just having been there" for that to work.
I have no problem with Atheists. My problem is with Atheist fanboys. The people who are more evangelical about their Atheism than most Christians are about their Christianity, to the point that they need to be like "MikeG" in the website's comments and ruin a great, heartfelt story by picking out one minor detail you don't agree with and bitching about it. My problem is with the slew of people on Digg who would support such an asinine move, and are just as athe-evangelistic in the digg comments, who seem to strive to outrightly insult anyone who has a different view. What's funny is that most of these people call themselves "Democrats", whose practicing platform includes acceptance of those with different views. Oh shoot, forgot I'm not supposed to mention that here, because that's not convenient.
Grow up. This isn't a religious article, it's a touching stream of what you can learn about life from unjaded eyes. - haveacigar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1111. Glue is tasty
- TheTaoOfBill, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12Since when are we not allowed to teach our beliefs to our children? What are you going to say if you kid decides he wants to be a christian? Something tells me that you'd be about as upset as a christian finding out his kid is an atheist.
I would hardily consider explaining the concept of heaven "Shoving it down his throat" and something tells me that this family isn't even very religious at all. If a 4 year old doesn't know what heaven is then my guess is he doesn't go to church much. The father even tells his child that he doesn't know how to get to heaven where as a religious man might preach what the bible says.
All parents explain their belief structure to their children. Good parents are the ones who aren't going to mind if their kids decide to take a different route. This man is a good father. Notice he didn't get angry when his child questioned the idea of God. In fact he praises his sons ability to ask big questions.
Please stop ruining a fantastic story with your anti-religious hate. When people say that you are just as bad as evangelicals it is very true. Learn to accept other people's beliefs and traditions. Stop spreading your hate. - kevinmotel, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13"A few days latter he asked, “If God made me, who made God?” Good question. "
Smart kid - amandaw33, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8love the pix of the maze.
- sunchild, on 10/12/2007, -10/+18Too bad his Dad totally missed the point-- his son was trying to teach him how absurd religion is.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10I was once bought a pair of flamboyant fighting fish. I put them in one tank, and one of them was killed.
I learned on that day, what it means to be a dad. - Ratty, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12The Flying Spaghetti Monster of course!
- Lokix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8It's almost worth the bowel obstruction.
- sdrawkcaB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7The kid seems pretty smart for a 4 year old. props to the kid already wondering who made god lol.
- Sanchez, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7One day I looked at the board while he was writing and I saw this combination of capital letters - SHHANDSHOWBO. He also knows how to sound out words, so I asked him what it was. He said, “It’s a word I made up - Sha-hand-show-bo.” I asked, “What does it mean?” He said, “To keep trying even when it’s hard.” Now when I get frustrated I think - Sha-hand-show-bo.
Awww. - TomFrost, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6It made it on Digg this high because people dugg it. You digg something if you enjoyed it, or if it's important to you. By the power of logic, I'm going to deduce, then, that there were enough people that enjoyed this article for it to get to the front page.
If you don't like a story, don't read it. Or, if you read it and didn't like it, let's try accepting that maybe not everyone shares your opinion. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5try the Play-Doh.
- taotehue, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6its amazing how much we parents truly do learn from our children. I know my children really changed the way I looked at everything.
- tainedhero, on 10/12/2007, -2/+612.How to handle the digg effect (lesson sometime next week.)
- dipdog21, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I have no belief in god but last time I looked it was his beliefs and his child...
- saska, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Maybe you should have had a good, hard think about those things before you went and had a kid, hm?
- HP844182, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8Don't most people ask that?
- Samsong, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4'Former *Digg* Child Star'....
- Klowner, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6@Jake2 - STFU and go get your own children to corrupt.
For the past few months it's seemed like every Digg article, no matter how mundane, is full of "look at me, I'm a raving atheist, I'm cooler than the Fonz, please pound me in my monkey hole Richard Dawkins" comments? - intense321, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5"Good question. I haven’t thought about that one in years."
Once upon a time this guy was curious and asked the right questions. Then he just succumbed to blind faith and ignorance. How sad. I just hope he encourages his kid to keep asking questions like that without telling the child to "just believe it because everybody else does". - TheTaoOfBill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I agree completely. I never thought I'd see the day where an atheist would get annoying by preaching their beliefs as the only possible truth. Atheists are becoming just as annoying as evangelicals.
So many atheists on digg claim religion is the cause of all wars then go and pick fights with even the most liberal Christians. Everyone needs to learn to respect other people's beliefs. Preaching atheism is no less annoying than preaching Christianity. I don't preach my beliefs. So stfu about yours. - m0nk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Um, isn't that what ALL parents do until their children are older? I grew up in a catholic household and we went to church, following what my parents followed, believing what they believed. Now that I'm older I'm a Buddhist, and am teaching my son Buddhism. When he has a child he'll teach that child whatever beliefs he has at that time. I'm guessing you don't have children, otherwise you'd know better....
- TheTaoOfBill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2what the hell are you rambling about? Obviously he is doing an excellent job raising his kid if the kid turned out so smart. It sounds to me that maybe your parents were a little too negative around you.
- dbora, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You're being funny, right? Just in case, Dawkins would have said no such thing. He respects the right to choose to believe or not believe, he's just trying to make sure we get similar treatment when we choose not to believe.
- TomFrost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@dbora (edit: and TheTaoOfBill!): Hear, hear :). That's the best approach to that topic that I've ever seen on Digg. I hope people here can step away from needing everyone else to believe exactly what they do for awhile, and actually understand what you mean.
- TomFrost, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Something was good and hard... but I'm betting it wasn't his think.
- 574lk3r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the only thing ive learnt from my kids is that i still hate schools.
oh and that it is possible to love more than one person. - geronimo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I agree except for the negative part.. You can still make criticism/corrections positive. For example, you can say either "Don't do that" or say "I prefer you did that the way you did it before, because..." Or, "Don't come home with an F." vs "I don't want you to get an F, but I like it that time when you were getting an A in the class, perhaps we can get a tutor." If you really think about what you say and mention something positive at all times, you'll get more out of kids, adults, dogs even. If you're negative with no positive words sprinkled around your negative words, people will do just enough to not get punished, if you're positive they'll go beyond what you ask them to because they'll be motivated.
- DenTPuzz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1light bulbs, although pretty, are really hot!!! My kid learned this one the hard way.
- PayneX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Awesome, i just learned all that, and I'm £400,000 better off.
- Zeeeeeeeeeee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0from The God Delusion by Dawkins
"isn't it always a form of child abuse to label children as possessors of beliefs that they are too young to have thought about?"
... "The important point is that it is their privilege to decide what they shall think, and not their parents' privilege to impose it by force majeure." - dbora, on 10/12/2007, -1/+111. How to ineffectively complain about parenthood.
4 years old and still in diapers? Quit spoiling the kid, and start teaching him/her how to wipe his/her own ass (literally and metaphorically) - m0nk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1werd...
- Sanchez, on 10/12/2007, -10/+9I was born an Atheist, I remember making fun of my Gran (who's a fairly devout Christian) about all the holes and things that don't make sense about Christianity when I was 6.
- UtopianComplex, on 10/12/2007, -7/+6This Article was lame and trite... I can't believe it made it this high on digg. It seems like something that would be in the living section of the newspaper or something.
- dbora, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Yeah, that was harsh. This is how religion and religious ideology is handed down from generation to generation. I'm not religious and hence I try to answer such questions with an objective view without respect to a specific religion. This dude is religious, inferred from his article, and is answering this question in kind, taking his beliefs into account -we both are.
Does that make sense? - loof, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Paste is where it's really at.
- Raian, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2This should be renamed how not to raise a child.
Be negative and positive around a child-- the child should have a healthy balance of both... he or she should be able to have an articulate opinion when things are both bad, and good.
Leave the religion out of it. If you really believe in this faith, let the child make his or her choice at an appropriate age-- give more than one point of view, even if it's not your own.
Most of all- be honest, a child is just a little man or woman-- don't be afraid to explain the world as it is, not as you wish it was. - pcgaminguide, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Yes, lol I was thinking the same
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2http://www.duggmirror.com
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+510 real things i learned:
1.how to change my 4 year olds diapers
2.how to function during the day after getting no sleep because my 4 year old cried all night
3.how to live with no money because i had to spend it all on my 4 year old
4.how to not get embarrassed when my 4 year old throws a temper tantrum
5.how to pay child support for my 4 year old
6.how to wipe my 4 year olds ass
7.how to be a slave to my 4 year old
8.how to give up my life for my 4 year old
9.how to not party anymore for my 4 year old
10.how to do my 4 year olds laundry.
ect... - Zeeeeeeeeeee, on 10/12/2007, -11/+4"A few days latter he asked, “If God made me, who made God?” Good question."
Dawkins would call this child abuse. I'm not sure if it deserves that tag, but it is definitely irresponsible. - daRoach, on 10/12/2007, -16/+5All he had to do was easily explain how God exists outside of our understanding of time and space so it is possible for God to exist infinitely without having to be created.
- Jake2, on 10/12/2007, -19/+4To the author:
Oh, smart one. Explain YOUR blind, biased, religious views on a four-year-old child about God and heaven and expect him to take it as fact. Good going, I hope your child grows up with his own religious (or non-religious) views and he doesn't take everything you shove down his throat without a question. Shame, it was otherwise quite a nice article.
Sorry if that was a little harsh, but I really needed to let that out, and it's not just within this article I've seen that sort of thing written.
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