Conflicting opinions on children and church

[MrsGiraffe12]

Hi all
Basically I'm a Christian and have found a church Iove. My nearly 6 year old has been coming along with me and loves it and really enjoys the Sunday school and had a "favourite" hymn. It really makes me happy he enjoys coming.

However, DH isn't a
Christian and doesn't have any faith whatsoever. He has recently started saying to DS "do you want to go with mummy or stay with daddy? I bet it's boring" by which point DS says he'd rather stay with DH. This saddens me as DS had a lovely time when he's there. And I argue with DH that he can't be that against religion or we wouldn't be sending DS to a C of E school.

Should I enforce DS to come with me on Sundays, even if he says he would rather stay with daddy? He only ever suggests staying at home if DH asks him, so isn't something he thinks about if that makes sense. As I've said before he enjoys it when he's there.

Thanks for reading this rambling post x

He cannot undermine her personal feelings... But he can belittle them in front of others and this would be particularly hurtful if done to a DC.

E.g. My DH will describe me as a "theist" (his preferred term for religious people as opposed to Atheist) and say I find comfort in a religion he doesn't believe in. He wouldn't say "and she's so booring" or anything to anyone let alone a family member.

As others have said your issue isn't religion, it's how your husband is happy to treat you in front of ds. Does he use ds like that in other ways?

You need to talk to your H about this. Agreeing to disagree is all very well when it's just the two of you but you need to decide together how you are going to bring up your children with regards to faith.
It's a difficult one, I'm not sure how you can resolve it. I'm a very committed atheist and if my H was a Christian, I can see it would cause us a lot of issues.