I thought some of you might get a kick out of this.
My son calls me last night from College. He said I won an award, which is not uncommon for him, hes won a lot of awards. I said what was the award for? He says its the Inter Faith Award.
Now my son isnt religious at all in fact he is anti religious.
I said how did you win an interfaith award, when you basically dont profess to any faith.
He said I represented the Aethiest group on campus.
Now Im proud of my son for winning awards, but Im a bit on the fence on this one, he wants to be a lawyer, possibly go into politics, so I really dont think its a label he wants attached to him.
Lets step back to his seniour year in HS, he went to a Religious Based Christian Private School, from start to finish. Anyway his last year they wanted to have a debate on the Existence of God. My son was nominated to represent the side that there is no God. The kid he was to debate, well his father was a huge booster at the school and his mother the middle school science teacher. A couple of days before the debate, the president of the school pulled the plug on the debate. My son didnt like it cause he was ready and prepared. Last year I was at the school for a function with my daughter and wound up sitting with the president. He said you know I really wanted your son to debate the other kid, but we talked to them independently ahead of the debate and realized that your son was gonna wax the floor with the other kid. Plus being a Christian based school, we didnt think it was in the best interest of the school to have a student like your son tear awart the foundation of what we believe as a school, so I pulled the plug on it.
Anyway, sorry George I know my son goes way counter to what you believe, and it really puts me on the spot, but I always taught my kids to think for themselves look for answers to thier questions.
In the end I may have raised a monster.
Now the flip side is my son is an A student, next year he is going to Germany in a student exchange program to study a year there, my daughter is an A student, she doesnt hold, or at least she doesnt get vocal about anti religious beliefs.
With all the debates on religion we get into at times on here, I just thought I would share this.
My parents are fairly religious, so here I am, at some point one of them will find out and ask me what he won this award for, and quite honestly I would rather not cross that bridge, but it is what it is.
My son calls me last night from College. He said I won an award, which is not uncommon for him, hes won a lot of awards. I said what was the award for? He says its the Inter Faith Award.
Now my son isnt religious at all in fact he is anti religious.
I said how did you win an interfaith award, when you basically dont profess to any faith.
He said I represented the Aethiest group on campus.
Now Im proud of my son for winning awards, but Im a bit on the fence on this one, he wants to be a lawyer, possibly go into politics, so I really dont think its a label he wants attached to him.
Lets step back to his seniour year in HS, he went to a Religious Based Christian Private School, from start to finish. Anyway his last year they wanted to have a debate on the Existence of God. My son was nominated to represent the side that there is no God. The kid he was to debate, well his father was a huge booster at the school and his mother the middle school science teacher. A couple of days before the debate, the president of the school pulled the plug on the debate. My son didnt like it cause he was ready and prepared. Last year I was at the school for a function with my daughter and wound up sitting with the president. He said you know I really wanted your son to debate the other kid, but we talked to them independently ahead of the debate and realized that your son was gonna wax the floor with the other kid. Plus being a Christian based school, we didnt think it was in the best interest of the school to have a student like your son tear awart the foundation of what we believe as a school, so I pulled the plug on it.
Anyway, sorry George I know my son goes way counter to what you believe, and it really puts me on the spot, but I always taught my kids to think for themselves look for answers to thier questions.
In the end I may have raised a monster.
Now the flip side is my son is an A student, next year he is going to Germany in a student exchange program to study a year there, my daughter is an A student, she doesnt hold, or at least she doesnt get vocal about anti religious beliefs.
With all the debates on religion we get into at times on here, I just thought I would share this.
My parents are fairly religious, so here I am, at some point one of them will find out and ask me what he won this award for, and quite honestly I would rather not cross that bridge, but it is what it is.
"A winks as good as nod to a blind man"