Sean, Sounds like a lot of the same idea's I have. If you have not heard Greydon Square before, check out the song 'Molotov' in the little song widget on the left here: http://www.coldfusioncommunity.org/profile/justice
Excellent =) Chris -----Original Message----- From: Sean Corfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2007 10:45 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Christian's: Paranoid or not On Dec 6, 2007 7:05 AM, Jerry Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the parents are Christians, I am pretty sure they want their kids to have > faith that Jesus is the Son of God and their savior. That whole deal of > spending eternity in Hell instead of Heaven and all. Or, put another way, if the parents are religious - of any persuasion - they will usually try to indoctrinate their children into the same religion. I was lucky that my father stood up to my mother's side of the family and allowed me to make up my own mind instead of forcing me to go to Sunday School etc. My wife, from a deeply Christian family, was made to go to Sunday School but decided it wasn't for her after two visits because "they're treating me like a child!", something my wife never liked as a child (if you ever meet her, ask her about Sunday School and the bar of soap). When I was at primary school (that's age 7-10 in England), I remember some of the boys being absolutely terrified by the "threat" of divine punishment. Their parents had indoctrinated them to believe that bad behavior would lead to an eternity of burning and torture. They were pretty traumatized by this. Poor kids. They'd been convinced that all bibles were sacred books and if you did anything negative to one you'd be struck down from on high. I showed them that wasn't true - yes, aged 7 I spat on a bible to show them that, no, God will *not* strike you down with a lightning bolt. I was just trying to get them to *think* about what they were being told and not be so frightened about everything. I doubt their parents realized just what they'd done to their kids - I'm sure the parents thought they were doing the "right thing" based on their faith. But of course, the parents were *thinking* either because that's not what faith is about... it's about belief, instead of thinking. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ "If you're not annoying somebody, you're not really alive." -- Margaret Atwood ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:247759 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
