Comments on: Parents Need to Keep their Role as Parents! http://www.betsysblog.com/wordpress/2007/04/22/parents-need-to-keep-their-role-as-parents/ Let’s look at things a little differently.... Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:40:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: Betty C. http://www.betsysblog.com/wordpress/2007/04/22/parents-need-to-keep-their-role-as-parents/comment-page-1/#comment-146 Betty C. Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:44:51 +0000 http://www.betsyhart.net/wordpress/?p=28#comment-146 Dear Betsy, I want to express my delight in reading your weekly commentaries in my local newspaper. I am thrilled to read such supportive Christian viewpoints, especially pertaining to raising children. I too, am a committed Christian mom striving to raise my 3 children in a Godly fashion. I repeatedly find myself uttering a resounding "AMEN!" to your statements. For example "The misperception that the sin is in the thing instead of the heart," referring to a girls virginity, and also the one, "My goal for my children is heaven, not Harvard." BRAVO, BETSY!!! Keep sharing from the heart. Congrats on being asked to talk to the Willow Creek conference. What an honor. I look forward to getting your book. Wish I could hear your radio show. God bless you. Sincerely, Betty C. P. S. I cut out most of your articles and share with my like-minded friends. Dear Betsy,

I want to express my delight in reading your weekly commentaries in my local newspaper. I am thrilled to read such supportive Christian viewpoints, especially pertaining to raising children. I too, am a committed Christian mom striving to raise my 3 children in a Godly fashion. I repeatedly find myself uttering a resounding “AMEN!” to your statements. For example “The misperception that the sin is in the thing instead of the heart,” referring to a girls virginity, and also the one, “My goal for my children is heaven, not Harvard.” BRAVO, BETSY!!!
Keep sharing from the heart. Congrats on being asked to talk to the Willow Creek conference. What an honor. I look forward to getting your book. Wish I could hear your radio show. God bless you.

Sincerely,
Betty C.

P. S. I cut out most of your articles and share with my like-minded friends.

]]> By: Rex Payne http://www.betsysblog.com/wordpress/2007/04/22/parents-need-to-keep-their-role-as-parents/comment-page-1/#comment-147 Rex Payne Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:41:17 +0000 http://www.betsyhart.net/wordpress/?p=28#comment-147 I agree: Parents MUST not be buddies. But religion per se is not the solution. To the extent that high-functioning people tend to come from religious homes, it is because their parents were parents, not because their parents were religious. Religion does not cause moral fiber; it has tended to coexist with it. Morality is one thing, and religion another. Religion has no monopoly on morality. Religion is dogma [a set of absolute beliefs logically inseparable from mythology] masquerading as morality, natural law, basic values etc. and claiming to be the sole truth and the only path to 'salvation'. It is the modern remnant of prescientific attempts to impose meaning and certainty on human existence and, in the case of Christianity, is obviously modeled on the paternalistic human family and its political outgrowth, monarchy. It is a fact that, generation after generation, religious people overwhelmingly adopt the religion of their parents, and that they do so at an age at which they are far too young to evaluate it or even to be aware that they are adopting it. Which religion one happens to adhere to is a matter of historical accident, not of self-evident truth. The greatest value of America is freedom of thought, and a basic assumption of the Constitution is that people can choose to be good, even without "God". One relies on religion for goodness out of confusing the two or out of a vain hope that one's own beliefs will someday be vindicated, and that insidious internal whisperer, Doubt, be forever silenced. I agree: Parents MUST not be buddies. But religion per se is not the solution. To the extent that high-functioning people tend to come from religious homes, it is because their parents were parents, not because their parents were religious. Religion does not cause moral fiber; it has tended to coexist with it. Morality is one thing, and religion another. Religion has no monopoly on morality. Religion is dogma [a set of absolute beliefs logically inseparable from mythology] masquerading as morality, natural law, basic values etc. and claiming to be the sole truth and the only path to ‘salvation’. It is the modern remnant of prescientific attempts to impose meaning and certainty on human existence and, in the case of Christianity, is obviously modeled on the paternalistic human family and its political outgrowth, monarchy. It is a fact that, generation after generation, religious people overwhelmingly adopt the religion of their parents, and that they do so at an age at which they are far too young to evaluate it or even to be aware that they are adopting it. Which religion one happens to adhere to is a matter of historical accident, not of self-evident truth. The greatest value of America is freedom of thought, and a basic assumption of the Constitution is that people can choose to be good, even without “God”. One relies on religion for goodness out of confusing the two or out of a vain hope that one’s own beliefs will someday be vindicated, and that insidious internal whisperer, Doubt, be forever silenced.

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