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Originally posted by USNationalist@Mar 20 2004, 12:28 AM
Temptations in life are good for your faith. They test and refine it. Besides you cant outlaw all sin- kids in public school will still be faced with the things of this world. Let them get used to resisting temptation at a young age, besides those are the places where christians need to be going to find people to convert.
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Of course you are right...I was just remembering my innocent sweet little 5 year old after his first week at kindergarten ....he learned some words....how to play who can ##### the farthest in the bathrooms....and a nasty little poem.
I worked hard to out do the school yard education......he did go through 3 years of seminary and went on a mission...and married in the temple...but he really never was my sweet innocent little boy ever again...and he came home and shared his new found 'garbage' with his two little sisters...
Our blessed home has never been the same...
You know...I have suffered most of my life with an inferiority complex because I was Mormon....crazy when you think I was raised in SLC.
But truthfully, we, as mormon kids, always had to defend ourselves on a level that left us feeling like pond scum.
It wasn't until I returned from my mission and became a mom, that I started seeing how the world makes us think we are subhuman because we believe in God.
How wonderful it would have been to be raised in just the opposite situation....where good was accepted as good and evil as evil...
Always having to fight against what was considered 'normal and acceptable' was very counterproductive for most of my life.
I finally have learned to see good as good and evil as evil without feeling guilty....