JAK wrote:Objective “inquiry into all matters” is not possible where doctrine is sacred, not to be questioned, and the threat and fear of the terrifying is laid out through indoctrination.
I do so enjoy posts like this one (kudos JAK), made in all good faith and with not the slightest twinge of discernible irony.
To think, the only thing that separates JAK and I is that he is right and I am wrong. If not for my own childhood indoctrination, I might be able appropriately to appreciate that fact. And then my own tortured struggle with questioning indoctrination would be ended by unbelieving certitude.
PS. Roger: I agree with Jersey Girl. I know it's oh-so-wise to disdain the promulgation of belief in scriptural texts--how provincial!--but, really, if you're not personally raising the kids who are being gifted with the not-yet-existent kiddy quad, then, however relevant your own perceptions of it may be, you should probably do no more than exactly as you have already done: complain on a tiny message board.
I do appreciate the nature of your protest. I've engaged in it for other, equally futile, ends countless times myself.
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