How do you stop my child from becoming an atheist?

Answer 1

Try teaching them about the stories of The Bible and make Jesus 1st. Pray every night and stress the importance of god in their lives .

Convince them there is a god regardless of the fact that you have no evidence.

I would argue that to teach your child to accept arguments with no basis in fact would be to reduce their ability to reason, if you feel your religion is more important than your child's intellectual development then go right ahead.

Answer 2

Do not educate them or expose them to critical thinking, logic or science.

Lie to them constantly about how the world works. Feed them a steady diet of mumbo jumbo dressed up like real knowledge - the jumbo jet In the whirlwind for example - and pretend that it is deep wisdom.

Make them loathe their own natural bodies and functions. Convince them they are small and weak and worthless and need redemption. Tell them everything enjoyable is grievously wrong to even think about, and that their only fun should be in groveling to an invisible friend.

Ensure that they resent anyone who is not like them in every way - skin color, nationality, political opinion but especially creed. Make such people out to be evil and vile and give them - impotent minorities all - the fictional power to somehow oppress and persecute the vast majority who do think like you.

Teach them to laugh at and dismiss out of hand any faith but their own. Early - early mind you - make sure they are taught the difference between superstitious deadly error - that one raving lunatic in the desert told the truth about a vicious god who killed people. and divine eternal truth - that another raving lunatic in the desert told the truth about a vicious god who killed people.

instruct them with all severity and import to never question for themselves - to never think for themselves - to never live for themselves - but to seek answers only in one - just one - particular set of semi-literate bronze age folk tales.

Above all - and this cannot be over emphasized - make sure they cannot spell, use correct grammar, or understand basic English words.

That should do the trick.