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07/31/2002 Entry: "Child abuse"
I'm not pleased with yesterday's post. I struck the wrong tone and wrote it badly. Even so, I believe very firmly what I was trying to say - that we need to take a long hard look at the way we are raising our children, for I believe that abuse is systemic. Youngsters are being denied their childhood by being treated as (in the words of Rowan Williams, the new Archbishop of Caterbury) both sexual and economic subjects, expected to exercise choices without having had the freedom to learn how the choices should be made. I know it's a complicated subject and I'm not very qualified to address it. But I worry about my daughters.
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Actually, I think you put it well Richard. Secular society struggles with this issue because of the moral vacuum caused by the absence of God.
Sexual morals especially have been highly relativised over the last few decades. Yet something like paedophilia is so obviously evil that the secular world is not willing to view it as "an alternative lifestyle choice".
The inconsistancy is glaring. If we admit that there is a real "right and wrong" with regards to sexual activity with children, surely it's reasonable to assert there is also "right and wrong" with regards to adult sexual activity?
Posted by Craig @ 08/02/2002 12:11 AM CST
