Or, we can let our government teach our kids that they and our entire moral system evolved and is still evolving. Funny, how none of this has been proven but is being "endoctorinated" as fact in our public schools. The questions to you is, "Who is endoctorinating who?" In 2004, even longtime British atheist philosopher Antony Flew announced that he believed in a Creator.

I'm guessing that your a thinking person and not just a hate monger with an axe to grind, so...

Say we go your direction. We can put our children out into the world, with no absolutes and an "anything goes" mentality with an "answer only to yourself" and "live for tomorrow because there's no life after death" mentality. But, let's make sure that they don't infringe on your rights when they shoot, defame, bully or beat up your child because your child treated them with disrespect because he was "Discovering Himself." Or did your child infringe on theirs? Oh well, I guess it's a wash then...right?

We owe our children more than than that. Our prisons are full of people who think they've done "nothing wrong." Expecting a child to discover their own system of right and wrong and be a good citizen who is mindful to everyone elses system of right and wrong is the equivalent of placing them in a boat, in the middle of a lake with no oars and asking them to paddle back to shore.

However, the church is not a perfect institution and has made many mistakes and performed pure evil along the way. Most of which can be accredited to purely "selfish" motive and not following the sometimes "hard to follow" teachings of the Bible. So, I can fully understand why you'd feel the way you do.

In closing, I think that all that's being said here is that children gain respect for themselves and others by realizing that they're a unique creation made by a unique Creator who LOVES THEM as they are and wants them to be with Him someday. A very wise person once said, "If you teach a child that he came from a monkey, don't be surprised when he acts like one."