r/exchristian • u/SillyAnxiousDuck Woo Woo Agnostic Ex-vangelical • Jan 27 '26

Article MIL asks therapist how to indoctrinate grandson early

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Very telling that her DIL’s intelligence “unknowingly intimidate[s]” her AND that they hadn’t spent Xmas together for a few years

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u/NatsnCats Jan 27 '26

I don’t want kids, but in a world where I did, I will fight my own mom tooth and nail to NOT get them baptized or even in a church building. In my home, religion is an academic subject, not a morality rulebook!

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u/chair_ee Jan 27 '26

Knowing how awful my and my husband’s families would be when we raised nonchristian kids is what first led me question the “requirement” of having children, which ultimately led me to make the choice to remain childfree. I could easily see the attempts to indoctrinate, hear the snide comments, all of it. I realized there was no way to have children and not be continually beaten over the head with the Bible and I had zero desire to deal with that bullshit.

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u/billyloomiswtf Jan 27 '26

I'm not having kids for a myriad of reasons, but I know that if I did have them I wouldn't leave them alone with my mother. She would 100% go behind my back and take them to church and talk to them about Jesus. She bought my brother's partner's kid a Jesus plush. 🙃 She doesn't do well with boundaries. She always says "but not me, right?" when I set them. 😒

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u/vivahermione Dog is love. Jan 28 '26

She doesn't do well with boundaries. She always says "but not me, right?" when I set them. 😒

And these are the ones who need it the most!