As I was scrolling through the Time.com website looking at the news headlines one in particular caught my eye. Sunday School for Atheists happened to be at the top of the news. I clicked on the link and saw a picture of a young woman reading to several children. I began to read the article and became very interested in what it had to say.
Groups of atheists all over the United States are starting groups that come together weekly to teach their children values. They have their own version of the Christian Sunday School. The interviews in this article really intrigued me because the people talked of not believing in God at all. Now, I have had my days of straying from the straight and narrow, but I have always believed there is a God.
One of the stories in particular really got to me. A woman spoke of her son talking to someone about the Bible. The son was really interested in this truth that he had been presented and wondered why they didn't believe in it. After that, his mother sent him to a humanist camp to be with other children who had been raised not to believe in God.
As I read further, the article listed the things that these people and their children do in Sunday School. This is where they go to learn values and how to live. The children had studied Stone Soup a book about how a community comes together each person giving one thing to make the soup. If I am not mistaken, I have used this book before in church, or something very similar.
I am not really sure what to think about this Atheist Sunday School. I wonder if they have a class for how to deal with over zealous Christians, like the classes I have seen for Christians on how to deal with Latter Day Saints. I'd be interested in what it would be like to be taught how to live a life of values not believing in God. I'd bet it would be pretty hard.
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I have a comment, but it's not publishable...I may not be the most tactful person in the world, but there's no need for me to go out of my way to be offensive. ;-)
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