Kids come under many influences, quite a few of them self destructive and evil. Allowing kids to make up their own minds on important parts of life, is to attribute to them experience and judgment that they completely lack. Parents must lead the way for their children.
Burn of the Day
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Beat the Cult is happy with the social experiment thus far. Children without God become Gods. They lock and load the weapons, head into school and rip apart as many classmates as possible. They try to change their biological identity to fit the ones they see themselves as.
They find no remorse about killing an unplanned child.
They expect everything without earning it.
And you have the unmitigated gall to say that they should form their own beliefs???
Lord of the Flies might be your cup of tea, but it sure isn’t what a civilized culture comes from nor how it operates.
Even in a Catholic school, I see the (poisoned) fruits of two generations of “let them choose”. It is downright depressing at times – no common language or cultural markers. The biblical literacy (just as a general thing) that was taken for granted in previous decades is gone.
When I teach, I feel at times like St. Paul at the Areopagus having to start from scratch explaining the “Unknown God” – and yet, there is great opportunity in all this. But I suspect we are still nowhere near rock bottom.
It’s an uphill battle and the disruptive forces are very real. It’s so easy for a child to loose their Faith. So easy. Parents are afraid to be judged when at the end of the day the only person who gives a damn about your kids will be you. You have to be comfortable raising them in a counter cultural way and ignoring “opinions” and keeping your eyes on the end goal- Heaven.
With very few exceptions, public school is a religious school for secular humanism. You can sometimes choose the sect of that religion, which ranges from materialism to outright delusion, but they are all more faithful to their central Creed than Catholic schools are to ours.
That Creed is “There is no god but the person and you yourself are its prophet.”
Children don’t form values, they are taught values. They will either be taught values by people who love them (parents and family), or by people who use them (public school, social media, drag queens, etc.)
We shouldn’t let our children be taught by people who think the world would be better with fewer children.
Who taught this teenager?
https://catholicvote.org/louisiana-catholic-church-gets-back-to-normal-after-parishioners-stop-armed-teen-from-entering-mass/
I realize that Donald had this on our radar yesterday. I wonder how happy Beat the Cult would of been if this boy had succeeded in his unholy quest.
There’s an Andy Griffith episode where this comes up. Letting kids pick for themselves as opposed to being guided.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjdBWGZwpRw
I’d be curious if the OP could even articulate why this should be the case without self-reference to her own values or her own argument eating itself. I’d also be curious, from a non-religious perspective, why this would even be desirable? In other words, from whence is she deriving the ought that forms the moral imperative undergirding the question?
Sounds pretty much like the old axiom when computers first became common tools, GIGO, (garbage in, garbage out).
Children should be allowed to eat what they want, without actually giving them food.
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