The Glade 4.0

children will also take candy from strangers.

Do you have a point other than to troll?

We let children start deciding their spiritual path at a young age for the same reason we start teaching them social studies and civics in school long before they can vote and we start teaching them how to read traffic lights and signs, cross the street, and ride bicylces long before they are old enough to drive motor vehicles. It's just like anything else. Children don't hit some magic age where we dump all the information on them in some tidal wave. We start introducing things to them well before we expect them to do it all on their own in almost every area of life.

I don't let my 4-year-old use the stove. I do, however, trust my 17-year-old to bake unattended. That isn't because we didn't let her touch anything int he kitchen until some magic age and then just said "ok have at it." She learned over time and as she demonstrated she could handle easy kitchen tasks she was allowed to do harder ones.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I was wondering who it was going to be this year.

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"It is true that democracy undermines freedom when voters believe they can live off of others' productivity, when they modify the commandment: 'Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.' The politics of plunder is no doubt destructive of both morality and the division of labor."

I totally agree Diamondeye. I think thats the point. I *FULLY* support parents who wish to provide a religious education for their children or take them to a church, etc.

I want to be clear.

I think asking them to make a commitment at a young age, on the other hand, is wrong.

Why? Because they might start believing in something you don't?

What sort of committment are they making, exactly? The only committment they're making is between them and God, and He is not in the habit of holding us to any committments while we still live on earth.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Most churches have a confirmation or something whereby a child (usually adolescent) takes Communion. But it is my understanding you don't stop learning about God until the day you leave this realm.

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"It's real, grew up in trife life, the times of white lines
The hype vice, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes" - Nasir Jones

That is true, although communion is usually first held earlier. In my (Lutheran) church, communion occurs at 4th grade or so and confirmation (adult membership) at the end of 8th grade.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Thanks for keeping the string unbroken Theriov.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Ok. I'll bite. What string?

Of course they do! Free candy is AWESOME.

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"I've got twenty ways to tell you shut the f*ck up / nineteen of them are twenty-four bars long / the other one goes: SHUT THE F*CK UP" - Aesop Rock
"There is no God higher than truth." -- Gandhi
Formerly: Tulamian

Hey Loki.

Want some candy?

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

The string of derailed Religious Celebration threads.

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Holy shitsnacks!

I'll take some

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Holy shitsnacks!

Yes please!

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"I've got twenty ways to tell you shut the f*ck up / nineteen of them are twenty-four bars long / the other one goes: SHUT THE F*CK UP" - Aesop Rock
"There is no God higher than truth." -- Gandhi
Formerly: Tulamian

happy easter people~!!!

remember lots of chocolate ... biting the ear of bunnies is always fun!

I think this is generally a Catholic/Protestant difference. The Protestant churches I've been exposed to generally don't make a huge deal out of either event (heck, there wasn't even any kind of official recognition of my first communion), while for Catholics, the two coincide (I think?) and are a huge deal, complete with parties and gifts.

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"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

Nah, they don't coincide. First Communion and First Confession Coincide. Confirmation comes years later.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

Whoops. Thank you for the correction.

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"Aaaah! Emotions are weird!" - Amdee
"... Mirrorshades prevent the forces of normalcy from realizing that one is crazed and possibly dangerous. They are the symbol of the sun-staring visionary, the biker, the rocker, the policeman, and similar outlaws." - Bruce Sterling, preface to Mirrorshades

No worries, you made it clear that you weren't sure, as anyone positing about things they aren't familiar with should. You were right about the parties and gifts though.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

During the spring the city of Boston became over-run by what was essentially a plague of rats. There were rats everywhere. In the streets, the schools, the hospitals... everywhere anyone looked. The citizens, worried for their health and unable to do anything about the rats despite their own best efforts, petitioned the mayor to find a solution. The mayor directed thousands of tax dollars into the problem to no avail. First came the exterminators, then the hunters, then came the release of all the cats from the local animal shelters... none of it yielding a modicum of success, and all of it very costly. Finally, Easter came, and Father O'Malley heard the tortured pleas and prayers of his parishioners. After mass, he sat alone for a thoughtful moment, and then headed out to seek the mayor at city hall. After a brief discussion in which Father O'Malley told the mayor he had a fool proof solution to his problem, the two men headed out into the city with the priest sprinkling holy water and saying words over the rats. The mayor and the people were confused, saying, "What are you doing, father? How will this get rid of the rats?" Father O'Malley answered them: "I have made them all Catholics. You won't see them again until next Easter."

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Ezekiel 23:19-20 

Heh, I've heard various versions of that, its always funny.

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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Jesus of Nazareth

{insert obligatory joke about viagra and circumsized men}

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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No Taly, it's obviously not obligatory, but show your wit, tell this joke about Viagra and circumcised men - that is if you were actually refraining from telling it and not just throwing a little crap at the Christians.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

I don't understand the need to come into this thread and post like that. This isn't Hellfire.

Stop being so damn childish.