Alan & Brenda Leonard

2/2/03 21:30:

> << Practice seeing your children as perfect just the way they are. See if
> you can stay mindful of their sovereignty from moment to moment >>
>
> That's blasphemy for Christians.

<sigh>

I hate to even jump into this one, because somebody will probably get mad.

However, I'm uncomfortable with the broadness of the above statement. It
fails to take into account a significant percentage of the Christian
population who do not interpret the Bible literally.

I know that we use "Christian homeschoolers" here to mean a particular group
of people doing a particular type of homeSCHOOLING, but I really hate to
lose the entire identity of Christianity to that one group of people.

brenda

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In a message dated 2/2/03 2:39:31 PM, abtleo@... writes:

<< I know that we use "Christian homeschoolers" here to mean a particular
group
of people doing a particular type of homeSCHOOLING, but I really hate to
lose the entire identity of Christianity to that one group of people.
>>

I'll meet you half way.

There are millions of mean Christian parents who don't even homeschool who
would consider "the sovereignty of children" to be blasphemous.

I hope there are also millions who wouldn't.

Sandra

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In a message dated 2/2/2003 2:31:08 PM Central Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:

> That's blasphemy for Christians.
>
> I guess now the list will heat up (when the Christians get back from church
>
> <g>).
>

This seems just a little provocative to me. Do we have to get into Christian
bashing? There are many of us (Christians, that is) who do not fit the
stereotype of the " Christian homeschooler." Many of us cringe at much of
what the religious right says and does; but generalized statements like the
one above casts all of us in the same boat. That isn't reality.

Mary


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