My Favorite Day In The Middle School

As children we are shown life through rose colored glasses. Our entire world is dependent on the bias that is handed to us. For most people, what is taught in the years that they wear those jaded glasses is the backbone for their life. As a child raised in the Christian church I grew into a submissive, incompetent, and ignorant young adult. I purged myself of religion, and I quickly became a powerful, independent, and freethinking young woman.

One of the most discussed topics in the modern world is children indoctrination into religion. Children aren't developed enough to decide in what to believe or disbelieve. Everyone is born without believing in a religion until it is either forced on them or they are developed enough to decide if one of the religions ''works'' for them or not. Mostly, parents are the most influential part in a child life. They decide what a proper education is to their successor and they impose their ideas to their child.

The practice of organized religion has been declining greatly since the mid 20th century, but the pace in which religion is dying is not constant in every western country. Ireland is the only country where most people attend a religious event weekly, on the other hand, less than ten percent of Scandinavians attend religious events. Organized religion is dying where it once was common in everyday life, which is bad news for church leaders who want to fill their seats. From 1945 to 1985 the percent of regular church attendees in Canada dropped in half, from 70% to 35%. Although people have stopped associating themselves with a religion, many of them still believe in a creator. Around 32 percent of America’s population attends church weekly, but 66 percent of Americans have no doubt that there is a God, and another 16 percent believe in a God but have doubts (Altemeyer 79). There is evidence that the recent rise of religious apostasy occurred because of backlash against the “Religious Right”, the christian fundamentalists that are known to be anti-homosexual. Many people are turned off by these beliefs and severed their already weak relationships with the church. Children are also not being taught religious beliefs because of parents who have left the faith. Parents have stopped

Growing up I was always told religion was false and that I was above my friends who were Christians because I believed in science. My mom was raised by Catholics, but when she graduated High School, she vowed to never be religious again. My father enjoyed feeling more elite over the “religious plebeians” that worked for him. I remember having an argument with Victoria Henderson in 3rd grade because I believed in The Big Bang and she was a creationist. Everyone took Victoria’s side, and I learned it was better to just not talk about religion. In high school, I began reaching out of my comfort zone, and also questioning what my parents had ingrained on me as a person. My first religious experience was dating a boy named Luis who was Catholic, as my mother was raised. He was only allowed to date Catholic girls, so I

The youth today are so buried in their phone, buried in a world of texting, social media, Netflix binging, buried in a world of pure laziness and no production. People waste most of their time watching videos or movies, being on social media all day or whatever other excuse there is to not focus their time on God, and eventually end up living most of their life without being an active religious follower. Social media became a place where the youth can share their ideas and views in many different religions. The youth can be pushed into one religion if they aren’t knowledgeable enough to direct themselves or they can open their eyes and keep in mind that there are other religions in which they can fall back to because of peer pressure.. Public schools teach the youth about the world’s religions which, again, can cause them to believe one is better than the other or have the freedom to pick and choose which religion best fits them. For example, someone may want to remain sexually active before marriage and they will pick a religion that allows that such as atheism, or may just become confused because of all the in depth knowledge about so many religions that they just think picking atheism is easier to live with and may just come to conclude that religion isn’t all that necessary. A

It is up to parents to instill faith in their kids; this way children can turn to their religion in time of need. As Brandt says, "many [parents] are proud to be without religion whose children cannot afford their being without it" (194). However, in today’s modern culture, as Brandt adds, "Morality can survive without religion, it appears; children can be taught the importance of right versus wrong without benefit of religious training" (139). So, Americans are beginning to turn away from the church, and do not rely on the church as much as they did many years ago.

People cherish Sundays in cultures that possess the christian faith as their belief. The creation story states, “Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done” (New International Version Gen. 1-3). People go to church on Sundays and praise God for the world that he has created for them. It is frowned upon to work on this holy day, for God intended for his people to rest and be with him. In some families, they go the distance of not doing anything on this day, that it is strictly for praising and family. Without this creation story, people of the Christian faith would not practice this value.

It was my first day of middle school. Everyone is scrambling to their classes wanting to make a good first impression on their new teachers. I get to my first hour 5 minutes before class starts hoping to get a good seat next to my friends. Then my worst fear becomes a reality, the teacher has already made a seating chart in alphabetical order. My problem is that my last name starts with the letter ‘“O” meaning my seat is always near the back of the classroom. I sit down and there is nobody from my elementary school in my class. I try to have a conversation with both of the people that sit next to me, which doesn’t work. So I pull out my planner and start writing down what the teacher has on the board.

It was a sunny yet cloudy day, the ozone and earthy smell from the upcoming rain wafted continuously through my nose; these type of days were and still are my favorite. I had a feeling that today was going to be one of those special days, everything was going smoothly. My mother didn't wake me up at the crack of dawn to wash and clean up, I didn't have any chores to do today, and my family was coming over for a Saturday dinner. The biggest surprise of the day was when my uncle invited me to tag along to go shopping with him, something he rarely, if ever, did because it meant going to the city that was bustling with people. Uncle said that he was going to take me to meet someone “special.” Based on how swell the day was going I could tell that it was going to get even better.

Religion never crept its way into my life like it has for others, i was never indoctrinated into the cult of religion not out of my own choice but because of the choice of my mother and father. Even though children have the freedom of choice to not believe in a deity it can be more difficult than putting a giraffe through the eye of a needle to not accept religion when your parents are so religious and they ram it down your throat until you can't breath anymore and promise the idea of you burning in hell as a threat even though pascal's wager is ridiculous and illogical but it still makes it so hard to not accept god not even out of fear of “god” but from the very real punishment of your parents.I however was given a choice and my parents never

High school is supposed to be some of the best days of your life, right? A high school career can actually be a very stressful time for a student. There are many sleepless nights, stressful days, and hours of work to do. Numerous people are also involved in athletics as well. On top of it all, students have to worry about still having time to be with friends. So much pressure is put on a student to have a large group of friends. If you’re not social in high school, you’ll be considered “weird” or “boring”. Balancing school, sports, and a healthy social life isn’t an easy task. I found myself struggling with a certain friend at the end of my freshmen year, and unfortunately it began affecting the other aspects of my life.

My best day was graduating from Goldsboro High School in 2014. Hundreds of proud classmates, including myself, stood waiting patiently in our blue and gold graduation gowns. Preparing for that moment to walking across the stage where I would receive my diploma. While getting settled in, I started to reminisce on all the goals, I accomplished in addition to graduating with close friends that I'd gained relationships for more than four years.

In elementary school, my Sundays always began with an early awakening to go to church, followed by CCD. I hated it. As a kid, knowing that Sunday is the last day before the school week starts up again, I would have rather been anywhere else than at church and at CCD. I was such an active kid that being forced to sit for hours and "learn" on a Sunday was outrageous to me. However, this was the Roman Catholic tradition and I would just have to stick it out until tenth grade. After my confirmation, my parents told me I could make my own choice when it came to going to church, and my decision became more obvious.

My first real experience with religion was in a little Baptist church in Newport. This was the kind of church that would make any kid put religion into a box. There were no instruments during music, when people were baptized the preacher was in the water, they even had the stereotypical "holier than thou" attitude. I was the only child there and frankly I did not want to be. Needless to say this influenced me in the future to assume that religion is boring and pointless. Really I was just to young to understand, however throughout my childhood I always had "faith" because my parents had faith. Fast forward a few years and I no longer regularly went to church. With my attendance to middle school and the birth of my younger sibling my parents

It is a question that has become increasingly difficult for religious parents to completely ignore: Are parents who raise their children to hold religious beliefs instilling a form of permanent indoctrination? Many atheists argue this today, one of the most famous being zoologist Richard Dawkins. In a detailed article about this topic, he stated, “There really is an important difference between including your children in harmless traditions, and forcing on them un-evidenced opinions about the nature of life or the cosmos” (Dawkins). In another interview he said, “Children do need to be protected so that they can have a proper education and not be indoctrinated in whatever religion their parents happen to have been brought up in” (Humphreys). Atheists argue that brainwashing plays into account when raising a child with religious beliefs, which leads to an influence on their future, and way of thinking. These individuals propose that we should raise children without any religious beliefs at all and allow them to reach a level of intellectual maturity so that they can choose their own system of beliefs. Some might support this argument and find it reasonable. However, due to the fact that parents raise their children according to their own beliefs, having the best interest for their kids at heart and contradicting with the concept of brainwashing by the number of atheists there are today, religious parents have every right to raise their children according to their own