Frankly, IMO that whole thing should look stupid even to agnostics, atheists or people with other religions than Christianity. First of all, why does she not want her child to even observe things like that, is she scared that the child might maybe get interested in the religion?
Second, Finnish culture, like all western cultures, has been strongly influenced by Christianity, to fairly large extent is even based on it, so everybody living in this part of the world should at least familiarize themselves with that religion even if they do not want to practice it. And that would require things like observing even actual church services.
And after all of that, again, if you live here you should respect the religion the culture is built on no matter what your personal opinion of it may be. And what is she scared of if she doesn't want to see anything connected to it? Are her atheistic convictions so flimsy that she is scared she might change her mind if she sees too much of it, or sees too many religious people? Or that her child will stop listening to her views if he/she does? (Finnish language does not have separate words like he/she, we use just one word, hän, for both genders, so you will not know the gender of a person being talked about or mentioned unless it is specifically told, and the news article only talks about a "child")
That whole thing should look stupid even to agnostics, atheists or people with other religions than Christianity. First of all, why does she not want her child to even observe things like that, is she scared that the child might maybe get interested in the religion?
Second, Finnish culture, like all western cultures, has been strongly influenced by Christianity, to fairly large extent is even based on it, so everybody living in this part of the world should at least familiarize themselves with that religion even if they do not want to practice it. And that would require things like observing even actual church services.
And after all of that, again, if you live here you should respect the religion the culture is built on no matter what your personal opinion of it may be. And what is she scared of if she doesn't want to see anything connected to it? Are her atheistic convictions so flimsy that she is scared she might change her mind if she sees too much of it, or sees too many religious people? Or that her child will stop listening to her views if he/she does? (Finnish language does not have separate words like he/she, we use just one word, hän, for both genders, so you will not know the gender of a person being talked about or mentioned unless it is specifically told, and the news article only talks about a "child")
That whole thing should look stupid even to agnostics, atheists or people with other religions than Christianity. First of all, why does she not want her child to even observe things like that, is she scared that the child might maybe get interested in the religion?
Second, Finnish culture, like all western cultures, has been strongly influenced by Christianity, to fairly large extent is even based on it, so everybody living in this part of the world should at least familiarize themselves with that religion even if they do not want to practice it. And that would require things like observing even actual church services.
And after all of that, again, if you live here you should respect the religion the culture is built on no matter what your personal opinion of it may be. And what is she scared of if she doesn't want to see anything connected to it?Are her atheistic convictions so flimsy that she is scared she might change her mind if she sees too much of it, or sees too many religious people? Or that her child will stop listening to her views if he/she does? (Finnish language does not have separate words like he/she, we use just one word, hän, for both genders)