Children are born with an innate spiritual being.

Are Children Spiritual?

Please read my latest article on the Spirituality site. Your feedback is always welcome!

Absolutely, they are spiritual beings. Thanks for such a thoughtful article.

Debbie, this is a wonderful article, full of compassion and meaningful insights. It is also very well-written. I applaud you.

Thank you, ladies. I am glad you enjoyed the article.

To Debbie,

You wrote what follows:Children are born with an innate spiritual being.

Would you be so kind to explain to me ,THE spiritual being?I did read your article ,but never forget that a child is a clean slate.
I beleive the spirituality that they will develop will come from
the influence of their parents.If their parents are Atheists,
the spirituality will not be strong in that child except the one received by strangers,neighbours, teachers.I have just reread your article for the 3 rd time.You mention the innate spiritual being,only once,not discribing that being,at all.

Not looking for any debate , just ,as you can see, I really read your articles to the fullest.Could you describe that being.

Thank you

loong/norm

HI,

It would be greatly appreciated if regular contributors to this forum set loong/norm straight, er, I mean enlighten him regarding the spirituality potential of agnostics and atheists, children and adults alike.

ToLesMexicos,

Dear sir or madame,

It seems you do not follow the spiritual section often.The first 2 to 3 pages at one point,were my threads.The way you seem to see the spirituality section as a religious section.Do you know the difference?Please check the section and get back to me .

Your's
loong

To Les Mexico.

You could have finished your phrase,you know.It takes a lot to move me.
Muchacho/a

loong

Loong -

Les is absolutely correct in pointing out the issues with your statement.

You stated baldly, "If their parents are Atheists, the spirituality will not be strong in that child."

That is absolutely untrue. Spirituality and atheism are in no way connected in a cause-effect relationship. Some atheists are not spiritual and other atheists are extremely spiritual. For you to state baldly that all atheists are 100% weak on spiritualism makes no sense at all. It is like stating they all have red hair.

For you to then harass Les for pointing out this clear fact to you compounds the issue. You challenge him, "Do you know the difference [between spirituality and religion]" as if he is a child who is being brought to task for not knowing his lessons. This is completely inappropriate behavior for our forums.

Clearly Les DOES know the difference between spirituality and religion. That is the whole reason he pointed out the issue with what you had said.

Finally, calling him a "muchacho" (little child) finishes your belittling behavior in a way which is beyond words.

I have sent you a PM. We have talked several times already about your posting style. I cannot make it any more strongly worded that posting in this manner is not in line with BellaOnline's rules. Given the number of complaints we have received about it, it will not be allowed to continue for much longer.

I am speaking here as the owner of BellaOnline.

It is an awesome article about children. I have read it and I really appreciate Debbie-SpiritualityEditor for this wonderful article.

To Lisa Low carb,

So I will never get an answer to my simple question.

loong

Dear Loong -

If your technique is to avoid direct PM messages and to harass forum users, then the answer is no.

"THE spiritual being.".....as written by Loong.

There is no ONE spiritual being. Children are all very unique. There is no spiritual being that describes all children. The spirit that resides within a child is individual to that child.

What I was indicating in my article is that there is an inner spirit within the child that comes through. Children do ask spiritual questions, and yes, they will be guided by their parents. The point is, children ASK.

They want to know to satisfy an inner curiosity about why they are here. They are already dealing with spiritual issues within themselves at a very young age. Of course this is developed over time, as a child matures enough to understand what is going on within themselves.

I am not going to paraphrase my entire article here. I have given instances in my article to show that children do show that they have spirituality. Not everyone will agree with my article and that is fine. It is just my view that I wanted to share with my readers, and everything I write is always open to friendly and respectful feedback.

Jennie....thank you for your kind words. I am glad you enjoyed my article.

I think is a fine article and very insightful

I enjoyed the article as well. Everyone will have an opinion and that's ok, because it really is - just their opinion.

Thank you Burt and Dianne. I hope my future articles will be enjoyed as well.