Posted by:
Lost Mystic
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Date: April 15, 2011 08:03PM
My son is almost 7 y/o, and he is already a deep thinker. I am divorced from his completely TBM guilt ridden mother, who tries to fill his head full of the TSCC's bullcrap. Anyway, we spent the day together, and we were talking about evolution. He said "My mom says that humans didn't evolve over time, but I think she is wrong." So we had a long talk about evolution, and he loves it. Then he asked if churches evolve too. "Nobody here was around 2000 years ago, and I hate it when people at church say they know things as true. We weren't there, so we can't know for sure." So I taught him about the Catholic church and the protestant refromation. Then I talked about Mormonism. I explained that I learned that many things TSCC teaches changed over time. He got really mad at Brigham Young when I told him about blacks and the priesthood. I also taught him about Joseph Smith and polygamy, and many of his lies. He asked if most Bible stories were just stories to teach a lesson. He said "I'm pretty sure rainbows were here back when the dinosaurs were around...because science teaches that rainbows are made when light his water in a certain way. And I don't think God would ever kill all of those people. Plus, how would all of those animals fit on some boat and get along with eachother....It just doesn't make any sense. It's like the three little pigs. It teaches a good lesson, but it's made up. Plus everyone adds new parts to the three pigs story, but the lesson is the same." Then we talked about how God gave us brains to combine with our hearts, and to not just accept things they teach at church as true. We talked about how life is a school of learning, and not a test that you pass or fail, and he said "Yeah...Mormons have too many silly rules and you can't obey all of them all of the time." His mom cries every day at least 5 times a day, because she feels she doesn't measure up....and my son says it doesn't make sense for people to feel that guilty.
He said he will mainly just try to do his best to treat other people well, and to follow what Jesus taught.
The conversation went fantastic, and I think he will do just fine!