>I am genuinely worried about my son, he is becoming extremely religious in a way that is unhealthy.
>I know the title might sound weird but I am really concerned about this. You need to know a bit about our family
>We're a Catholic family, I myself went to a Jesuit school when I was young, both me and my wife value our faith deeply. We have two children, one daughter and a somewhat younger son, we'll call them Jane and John. We've raised the the best we could to be good Catholics.
>Jane officially declared herself an atheist when she turned 16 (she's 18 now) and we have tried to accept that as much as possible. She will always be our daughter. We accept whatever she wants to believe, but of course we pray for her spiritual wellbeing every day.
>With both children we start them off young by reading stories to them from children's bible books. If you've heard of the Early Reader's Bible or Stories of God and His People you'll know what I'm talking about. Jane was bored by all of it almost immediately, but John was far more interested.
>John is at the opposite extreme. He has always been very religious, even when he was a very young child. My wife and I were very happy because he was eager to do all the things we had intended for Jane.
>We taught him how to pray the rosary because he wanted to learn how. Since then he'd go into his room and do it even when we didn't tell him to. He'd say, "I'm going to go pray the rosary in my room" and he'd do that for an hour or two unless we interrupted him.
>He'd also do it at night before bed, I once caught him three hours past the time he went to bed, still praying the rosary over and over in the dark.
>When he got older and was able to read without assistance, he would spend much of his time reading the Bible along with rosary time.
>We bought him age appropriate versions of the catechism and bible along with other Christian themed books.
>He read that kind of stuff everyday, when he was 9 John begged us to let him go to Catholic school, but we aren't able to afford tuition, so public school it was.
>I thought at first that it might be a phase, it seemed unusual to me that a boy that young would want to spend that much time with stuff kids his age usually find boring.
>John is 15 now and was very eager to take communion classes when he was younger and very eager to be confirmed last year and since then he's only gotten more religious.
>He still prays the rosary, reads the Bible, etc. everyday when he's not doing his chores or homework, at church, or at school.
>He is a part of our church's youth group and does volunteer work there every week packaging food for the poor or whatnot.
>John's very well behaved, he gets very good grades in school, and he is friends with a handful of kids that go to our church, but they're not nearly as religious as him.
>However, I am genuinely disturbed by some of the things he says. John has a very pessimistic view of humanity and generally thinks that people have turned from God.
>John has extremely traditional views on Catholicism and especially politics where he is strictly far right authoritarian, or, "Catholic Integralist" as he calls it.
>He has a tense relationship with his sister Jane because he's always willing to tell on her when she smokes pot in the house, drinks alcohol, or sneaks boys into her room.
>All of those things aren't allowed in our house, but I hate to see John and Jane have such a bad relationship, it seems like John does it out of personal resentment for Jane because she's an atheist.
>Again, I don't think it's healthy how much he's devoted to religion, as much as I'm proud of him there is a part of me that tells me it's not normal for someone so young to want to spend so much time doing religious activities.
>Even when I was older than him, I didn't spend so much time praying or studying the Bible even though I was required to do it while attending school.
>I figured that by now he'd start becoming interested in girls like I was around his age, but John has already determined he's going to be chaste until he finds the right woman.
>There needs to be moderation in all things, even religion, so I'm mainly looking for feedback and advice, sorry if I'm rambling.
>TL:DR
>I'm worried about my son, he spends almost all of his free time either in his room reading the Bible, praying rosary, or at church worshiping/volunteering. His views are becoming increasingly ultra-traditional, and I'm worried about what he'll be like when he's older. Do you have any advice on what I should do?
Dad is more worried about his son than his whore of a daughter. How do we get John on this site?
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