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Okay but like, if your kid does tell you they're a christian, yeah, I'd be pretty weirded out if I were you? Because the methods Christians use to get converts are fundamentally founded in guilt they force on you, fear they create in you, gaslighting about whether you're *really* happy or have meaning in your life without god, and lies about philosophy, cosmology, etc. And most versions of the belief system have some really horrible brainworms and implications, there're a lot of truly reprehensible scriptures floating around. So I would actually spend some time at least asking them why they converted and which branch of Christianity it was they're a part of now, and maybe hoping to stir some critical thinking if it turned out they got taken in by the "we're all sinners who deserve punishment but Jesus can forgive us" shit or whatever. Got in trouble for this on the Freed Market Anarchism discord like two years ago because that's "bigoted against Christians" and "indoctrinating your children" or whatever but they can fuck the hell off with that bullshit. Yeah #NotAllChristians but 99% of people aren't gonna be converted by Quakers or christian anarchists. I'd be just as concerned if my hypothetical kid converted to any other dubious and usually-bad ideology — like Marxism-Leninism.

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