Christian Parents: How Do You Feel About This?

I am a Christian, a teacher, and have raised four kids.

The mistake is to give kids concepts or ideas that are above their age. When you are six, learn to love all other people and be friends.

If you believe in God, tell them this what God likes us to do.

To teach a form of what kids will take as prejudice at this age, is an awful thing to do.

As a Christian I say to you that I am sorry.

Wow. And I thought the playground was tough when I was growing up.

On the surface it looks like these very little kids are playing the same social "clique" exclusionary games that children have played for generations -- just using Jesus as the entre into the group instead of, say, wearing purple socks. If it were only that, I'd be inclined to treat it as any other playground snobbery. But obviously they had to get their precocious aggressiveness about this from somewhere; do they all attend the same church? If your daughter's report is accurate, then this is pretty ugly.

I can't imagine any Christian parent I know approving of these childrens' actions. Upon finding out about it, they'd likely be having a very serious talk with the kids. But there are some pretty odd sects out there and who knows what they're teaching in Sunday school.

In any case, the most important thing is helping your daughter deal with this cliquishness. As I said above, it's something that takes many forms throughout the school years. It's sad that her first taste of it had to come at such a tender age, and with a Christian spin. If it escalates, the school should intervene -- but the advisability of when to take it to them if they don't seem to realize what's going on is something you'd know better than I.

I am afraid that this just shows yet again that Monotheism (at least in it's Judeo/Biblico/Islamo forms), is nothing but a deeply intolerant creed, which is totally ignorant of the reality of Spiritualty.

The Divine Reality is, omniscient, transcedent, and all pervading. So they say! So how then, do they put limits upon limits on what is in fact, limitless?

The truth is that the Divine Reality or Universal Consciousness can take any shape, name, form, incarnation , be manifest or unmanifest.

Each one of us has a different awarness of It/She/He, as well as some are not aware of it. We are all different in phsycology, karmic baggage, level of understanding, cultural upbringing and indoctrination in some cases, so we can NEVER all relate to the Limitless in the same way, let alone worship It under the same form or name. Anyone who tries to enforce this utopia and spiritual fallacy is nothing more than a dictator, lead by the ego, and thus in total ignorance of Spiritual Truth. Anyone enlightened, however, will know the nature of the Divine and thus will know and practice it as: Unity via Diversity. In that way, there is no hatred towars "the others/inpure/infidels etc", no division of the Human race, but you get instead harmony between the races, philosophies, beliefs etc. The key is: Agreeing to disagree!

Those kids you are talking about have been mercilessly indoctrinated by spiritual ignorant, biggoted cultists! I pity those poor innocent souls that are being corrupted by intolerance and hatred for the "others".

Just an example of in group out group bigotry of religious indoctrination. Where is the teacher supervision at? The administration should be made aware of the problem. Appears the ringleaders of these little groups need psychotherapy and deprogramming. Someone needs improved socializing skills, this is inappropriate for any 6 year old to have to deal with.

Children will be children. HOWEVER Christian children with correct and sound Christian teaching should not be behaving in such a manner. I certainly would not approve or condone any of my children being part of such practices. It could amount to bullying or discrimination, both of which is wrong.

No matter what the belief denomination or anything else, no one has the right to be offensive to anothers belief or choice not to believe.

I am a born again , spirit-filled Christian and I belong

to an Assembly of God Church in Tx and my children do also . My Church does not teach children to be snobby or rude , in fact the Bible teaches us that were supposed to Love one Another especially the children . I think someone should go talk to the Principal of the school and then he/she can address it with the parents . Clicks shouldn't be allowed anywhere .

I just answered a question that included something to the effect of:

We Christians are tired of being dumped on for things said and done by "churchgoers" who are no more believing or following Christ than a rock in the yard.

(Ditto comes to my mind about those parents.)

Perhaps they "think" they are doing the right thing, sometimes people are simply taught wrongly and believe whatever they hear from a pulpit without weighing against the word of God and without asking the Holy Spirit for help in discerning right from wrong.

Praying that children's nature (innocence and not-yet-accountable) will override insecurities and errors of the parents. Children have a good/bad barometer that works fairly well as God designed it. IF they've not been contaminated by wrong thinking, they will not develop prejudices based on someone else's insecurities. (We all have enough that we allow to develop on our own as we "mature.")

At six, parents should be making sure that their OWN children are secure in the love of God and that Christ is their Lord and Savior. These folks are putting carts way before the horse in my opinion.

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Add-on: Evangelisim is extremely important in Christianity because we are commanded by Christ to do this; however, it should be a do as He did type and NOT doing what we are always accused of doing: "cramming it down the throats of unbelievers."

*****Jesus taught us to build bridges of love and communication FIRST--then people want to know about Jesus. God is the one who draws people to Him. If He has not drawn them first they cannot even come to Jesus--God prepares who He wants not us (or our children).*****

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I don't approve, it's odd that 6 year olds would even think about such things to extreme. Makes you wonder what the home life is like for the kids at home to do this...and sad that they are being brought up in a closed-minded environment. I hope your daughter's feelings weren't hurt too bad, and although her peers are intolerant of others, you sure can teach your own kids to be tolerant.

My brother's girlfriend babysits this little Christian girl, she's 8 years old.

They took her to the park where she pushed an Indian girl off a trampoline and onto the ground where she slammed her face and broke her nose. The Chistian girl and said somthing about "God's vengeance" towards her for believing in some unspecified eastern Indian god.

A 8 year old girl pushed another 8 year old girl off a ledge because of their different beliefs in God.

Kids are not as dumb an innocent as most people think, they actually pile this religious stuff in their heads and know what it means, they just can't sophisticatedly question it, a bad combination if you ask me.

I am a Christian parent and have 5 children. I would be horrified if any of my children did this to another child or adult. This is NOT the Christian way to act!