This is a tangent, but I just caught myself thinking, ‘If my religious parents had a less amorphous image of religion—although maybe in their heads it really is so—a more structured way of how the world should be, instead of is, I would find religion more to my liking. After all, they taught me to doubt, they taught me to tolerate incompatible beliefs when they don’t likely lead to what I consider ‘bad outcomes’, they taught me to be curious about the world, so they have to have these values themselves! But no, it was as if they just thought religion is something you pick up with age… Maybe religious and unreligious people are more concerned about their own generation, and the respective vocal minorities who ‘go after the children’ are regarded as truce-breakers?
This is a tangent, but I just caught myself thinking, ‘If my religious parents had a less amorphous image of religion—although maybe in their heads it really is so—a more structured way of how the world should be, instead of is, I would find religion more to my liking. After all, they taught me to doubt, they taught me to tolerate incompatible beliefs when they don’t likely lead to what I consider ‘bad outcomes’, they taught me to be curious about the world, so they have to have these values themselves! But no, it was as if they just thought religion is something you pick up with age… Maybe religious and unreligious people are more concerned about their own generation, and the respective vocal minorities who ‘go after the children’ are regarded as truce-breakers?