[Mormons and Evolution] 1/20/2006 01:36:09 PM
Steve, all I'm saying is that there is a difference between what you will be asked point blank out of the blue, and what the Church approves of. Your teenagers deserve to know the difference in order to make an informed choice about the nature of their Church participation.
The fact is that if a priesthood leader discovers habitual masturbation he will almost certainly impose discipline of some sort. If you want to teach your children to disregard this and participate in all the ordinances anyway while maintaining their secret habit, that's your business. But since keeping things secret that would get you in trouble if they were known carries psychological costs, it may not be the most healthy thing to teach them to do. Teaching them to take a stand by not participating in ordinances under false pretences seems like the more honorable course. Depending on your teenagers' views of integrity, understanding this may affect whether and how they choose to participate in the Church.
Back to evolution. As my first comment on this thread indicates, I don't agree with Elder Packer on evolution, and I agree that being mistaken on well-supported evidence tends to undermine confidence; but as a matter of strict logic I would not say that being wrong about A necessarily implies one is also wrong about X, Y, and Z.
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Posted by Christian Y. Cardall to Mormons and Evolution at 1/20/2006 01:36:09 PM
The fact is that if a priesthood leader discovers habitual masturbation he will almost certainly impose discipline of some sort. If you want to teach your children to disregard this and participate in all the ordinances anyway while maintaining their secret habit, that's your business. But since keeping things secret that would get you in trouble if they were known carries psychological costs, it may not be the most healthy thing to teach them to do. Teaching them to take a stand by not participating in ordinances under false pretences seems like the more honorable course. Depending on your teenagers' views of integrity, understanding this may affect whether and how they choose to participate in the Church.
Back to evolution. As my first comment on this thread indicates, I don't agree with Elder Packer on evolution, and I agree that being mistaken on well-supported evidence tends to undermine confidence; but as a matter of strict logic I would not say that being wrong about A necessarily implies one is also wrong about X, Y, and Z.
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