Kids as experiment fodder

May 15, 2006 · Filed Under theology

I’ve long detested the entire premise behind postmodernism. It’s evil, it’s destructive, and it’s flat out wrong. Relativistic thought yields folks nothing more than a whole heap of trouble & woe.

Get Religion has a posting (Postmodern parenting: Only time will tell) that describes the latest gem to come out of the postmodern parenting arena — adults who checked-out of organized religion wanting to check their kids back in. Not for eternal truth/Truth, mind you, but for more worthy goals like the senses of “spirituality” and “community.”

What troubles me most about this latest trend can be summed up in the last sentence of this excerpt/quote from the article that inspired the post (emphasis mine):

So she and Gauri are dishing up a religious smorgasbord: Islam from one grandma, Hindu from the other, a Quaker school, a Buddhist retreat and a bit of evangelical Christianity via their former nanny. As Khan acknowledges, “Only time will tell if we were creating great confusion or great enlightenment.”

I’m horrified by the blithe acceptance & intent to use one’s own child(ren) as fodder for an experiment based on one’s own hubris. If you want to sacrifice yourself on the altar of your own hubris, fine. But to do it to your kids? Horrifying! Logical in the context of the whole twisted, postmodern milieu, but horrifying nonetheless…

-ghp

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