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Atheists & Agnostics

Stuckinthebush

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9. Same here

Reply to Arugula Latte (Reply #7)

Tue Jun 16, 2015, 09:39 AM

Jun 2015

It allowed them to participate in the fun. Then, as they became older and figured it out we would give them the aw shucks look and they understood. The problem isn't in the fantasy, the problem is when no one ever tells the kids that the fantasy wasn't reality. Such is the case with Jesus and God.

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Yes, all of it. I was raised by atheist parents who let us have that fun, so Arugula Latte Jun 2015 #7

Same here Stuckinthebush Jun 2015 #9

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