It's our responsibility as parents to teach our children that this world has many belief systems. We must allow our children to learn about their individual spirituality and support them if they decide to choose a system of belief outside our own.

Perhaps by raising our children in the system of belief that we have accepted to guide our individual life paths, without also allowing them to understand that they are free to accept or disagree, leads to the idea that others have denied our beliefs and are wrong for theirs. Especially if we teach our children that our beliefs are more true than others or to disregard others beliefs with disdain, with disgust for their way of life. Especially if we teach our children to fear their spiritually by threat of punishment or damnation. Then not only are others wrong but they now deserve punishment and retribution.

We must be responsible and teach our children to hear openly, to share and receive love, patience, ideas, understanding. We must encourage them to seek and find what makes them whole. We must support their feelings and conviction because that's what makes a happy person, a strong person who has been accepted and will accept others.  We are responsible to teach our children that we all deserve to feel whole but not at the loss of someone else's wholeness.