Porn is that popular in your parts? Sorry, I know, I'm a bad man.
I guess I'm more naive than I thought ... I have no idea what joke it is I'm not getting ...
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Porn is that popular in your parts? Sorry, I know, I'm a bad man.
I guess I'm more naive than I thought ... I have no idea what joke it is I'm not getting ...
Without wishing to be confrontational, would you be preventing them from seeing it for their benefit or for yours? You've chosen your path, let them choose theirs. If your faith is the right ideology for them then a movie won't do them any harm, and if it isn't then censoring alternative perspectives probably will be quite harmful for them.
Again, please don't take this as an attack on your values, merely an honest enquiry as that level of faith is an utterly alien concept to me and I'm curious to understand it better.
Sorry, but my children are 9 and 6... far to young to be making very adult decisions
Even the Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't mind the book.
I can't really find the logic of being afraid of a book in the first place.
He's a Pagan and a Heretic!!
Don't worry... you can't upset me with a valid discussion
Sorry, but my children are 9 and 6... far to young to be making very adult decisions, like the belief in God. You may disagree, but that's your choice and you can raise your children any way you want. I will raise them the way I believe is right, and the way that God wants me to raise them... then when they are 18 they can choose to follow the path I have set before them, or not... and I will respect that.
That's what my parents did... and (this is a long story, but I'll try to keep it brief)... when I reached the age of 18 I chose to abandon that faith that was taught to me. I became a heavy drug user (in the name of enlightening myself... in other words I didn't do drugs strictly for recreation). I lived a liberal, "do what you want" life... it almost killed me (literally). When all of that was over, and I had time to re-evaluate where I was in life, I had my parents' (and thus, the bible's) teachings to fall back on. If I had not had that, I would have continued to spiral... and I WOULD be dead today. Guaranteed.
Children who don't have a strong moral basis to fall back on risk a greater chance of never coming back from addictions, and destructive behavior. You can dispute that if you like... but I have studied it extensively (remember my first profession was psychology), and I see it in young adults all the time.
I'm not going to read the books because I have wayyy too much other fantasy to read that isn't written by a writer with a definite, outspoken agenda toward God (I don't care about religion... just God).
Once again... just my opinion
I'm a little confused here - did your parents do the same as you're doing or did they take the liberal approach that you don't want to take?
Either way, out of curiosity which drugs? I've had a phase myself with LSD and 2cb (the latter probably more recreational) and dabbled with mescaline and mushrooms, but never liked ketamine and never been keen enough on self discovery to get involved with DMT or similar tryptamines.
A shame, they're definitely well above average, and as said his agenda is towards the religions, not towards God, at least in the books and a couple of interviews with him that I've read, although I'm sure there are a lot of other articles where his views are either misinterpreted or actively misrepresented.
So vocal atheists are bad people now? I'm sorry but I don't agree with what you say and you don't need religion to have a moral upbringing. Theres little point in discussing it though because banging two brick walls together won't get you anywhere.
So vocal atheists are bad people now? I'm sorry but I don't agree with what you say and you don't need religion to have a moral upbringing. Theres little point in discussing it though because banging two brick walls together won't get you anywhere.
CS. Lewis Narnia is a propaganda? Since when?