To think buying a Bible is not the same as forcing religion on a child?

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For context: I am not religious, however I have always been of the mindset that religion is a personal thing and that it should be up to an individual to decide what they believe.

DD recently started going to a CofE school. She has been learning about Jesus and the Nativity and has always been a very curious child. She has lots of questions Christianity that I didn't feel qualified to answer because I didn't learn these things due to a very anti-religious family. So when I saw a children's Bible in a bookshop the other day I decided to buy it. My intention being to read through it alone first and then if questions came up again we could look at it together and discuss it. My DP didn't like this because although he agrees that it should be DDs choice, he feels like it's forcing it on her and that these questions could've easily been answered at school.

I want DD to continue to be curious and to feel comfortable asking these questions at home. I'll always do what I can to help her learn about the things that she's interested in, even if it's not necessarily what I believe. But DP thinks I've crossed a line. AIBU?

I had bible story books at home, went to a secular primary school at a time where we had daily assembly with bible stories, prayers and hymns, said grace at lunch, prayers at going home time etc. The only people who were religious came from religious families. In lessons, we didn't do much about Christian stories but there was a lot of Roman, Greek and Norse myths and fables. They are all stories with a message of some sort so it is useful to be able to understand this because everything you read is a message or someone's interpretation.

There is a huge difference between learning about the bible and what is in it and the religious philosophies of the various churches. I was a curious child and went to several church groups, including Pentecostal which was pretty full on, and turned out rather unreligious.

I did learn an awful lot about people though. The same patterns of behaviour exist in organisations inside and outside religion.

The Bible is the cornerstone of so much of Western culture that knowing about it is important and enriching. As an English teacher the parallels with biblical stories come up time and again when studying texts.

There are good children's bibles about. I fondly remember a comic-style one my (admittedly religious beyond belief) mum gave me.

I still have a King James' Version (for the language) and The Book of Common Prayer (ditto).

Thoroughgoing atheist here, as all my siblings turned out too, so bad luck Mum.

100% this!

Atheist here, but As a kid I loved Sunday school! All those OT Daniel in Lions den type stories. I didn’t believe they were real tho, not then and not now