Posted by:
exminion
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Date: June 18, 2019 07:23AM
Right, and how do you describe "success" to a bunch of people on a forum? You would use the same concrete parameters by which the majority of people measure success, right? On a forum of people who were raised Mormon, you would use previous Mormon measures, would you not?
The school system--a huge part of a child's world--uses grades.
With adults, the best people (usually, except for Utah nepotism) get the best jobs.
And he mentions love. No amount of obedience or merit badges or fake authority is more important than Love!
I use these same examples of success, too, when I talk or write about my children and grandchildren.
In the eyes of the society in which we live, and with our society's empirical judgments of giving grades and salaries and love as rewards--most people would agree that Secular Priest's children are doing great, and that he is a great father!
Except the Mormons, that is, who seriously condemn us all for drinking in front of our kids, and tell us that "No success can compensate for failure in the home"; that is, failure to enslave your children in the cult, force them into baptism, ordination into the arrogant priesthood, paying money for salvation, and trying to earn God's love, and going on a mission (no, a college scholarship does NOT take precedence over a mission) and marrying too young, and irresponsibly procreating when they are not ready and can not afford it.
Secular Priest is NOT overcompensating, at all. He wants us to know that he is being truthful, and as un-biased as possible, when he tells us his children are doing well.
Good grief! Give him that. He and his children have earned it.
Happy Father's Day (belated) Secular Priest!