Is she getting backlash? I missed that. I mean, I probably wouldn't be thrilled if that was my daughter, and maybe it's a little bit of a red flag for somebody actually considering dating her to find out just how much experience she has on that issue, but it was pretty clearly a joking comment.
I’ll save you the torture of listening to what glfrs posts sound like if they were audible.
This is, to a degree, addressed in the podcast interview. They discuss kids that grow up in actively religious households and possible reasons for why that group has not seen the same rise in anxiety and depression as other groups/categories.
I thought that data was interesting as well. We tried to teach our kids balance. I think social media is the devil, but wife and kids found that ridiculous.
Yes, those reasons are all probably factors at play, and impact people to varying degrees based on how each person is wired.
Almost certainly some causation going both ways there. Lots of parts of the leftist worldview that attract people prone to those type issues, and also lots of parts of the leftist worldview that are just psychologically unhealthy and self-destructive.
Also, groupthink has its pros and cons. Some people make great sheep, sadly. Those that don't, tend to struggle as they grapple with realizing everything they have been taught is wildly insufficient to explain the world they now truly see. I think that explains a large chunk of the "anxiety" difference among ideologies. (The rest is probably reporting bias and such.)
I agree that kids need to be allowed to freely play. However it is my experience kids just don't now a days because they are on their phones or games. My kid included.
I think they would be even more inclined to reality if they could read a 17n newspaper.
Poor "non-political" jokes that were in fact highly political and reinforcing conservative group think. When your "jokes" are talking about socialism and global warming not being real, you're not being non-political. Not sure if this results from the priest not coming from America and not catching the subtext, or just being so deep in conservative ideology that he didn't realize the error or just didn't care, but it definitely crossed a line. Granted, most churches cross that line multiple times every sermon and this is the first I've heard at this church in a decade. In and of itself, it's not a big deal. Just got me thinking about how to raise my kids here without them being bombarded by this groupthink from authority figures.
Who woulda thought we actually needed those big bold heading for "News" and "Opinion" and honestly the Fairness Doctrine (RIP)
Unless she was at a Christian preschool that really holds out their teachers as being devout and conservative (in the modesty/chastity sense, not the political sense), that's pretty absurd. I mean, I can certainly understanding all the mom's not wanting her there when their husbands suddenly started volunteering to drop off and pick up the kids. But are they really worried she's going to start giving oral sex advice to preschoolers or something?
I look at that map and see a rough correlation between sparsely populated areas and suicide. Of course less densely populated areas tend to be republican, but you've got New Mexico as a blue state being a pretty high rate. Lots of purplish states with relatively high rates and lots of solidly red states with low rates, albeit it not as low as California and a good chunk of the northeast. Not sure you'd have a noticeable trend after controlling for just a few other variables.
I was on our pastoral council for a few years and among the things we do is bring issues to priests at meetings and when we want to. If you know someone on the pastoral council let them know and ask them to politely request that mass and other parish sponsored events aren't places for political indoctrination. I spoke out on a few things and priests listened. If done respectfully, lay authority can be influential. The abortion issue is fine, that's been official church teaching for some time. After George Floyd, our priest said a couple of things, much of it non-controversial, just reminding parishioners that racism is against Catholic and Christian teaching and reminded us to love one another and help the less fortunate. Had he gone on and pushed a bunch of other ideas for the secular social justice left that gained some popularity, I would have said something. Parishioners have a right to do that.
Socialism unchecked is a proven failure and nobody's doubting climate change. Discussing what's causing climate change is NOT settled science. The huge money trail of the alarmists is alarming. Nothing wrong with The Churches views but still don't knows The specifics off what was actually said.
Not specific enough. What was said? Any degree of socialism is bad and climate never changes?
