Wed, Sep 27 2006

The Lord's Prayer is a powerful thing

I was blog browsing this morning, going from one blog's links to another and finding blogs that were new to me. I only got to read one post from Euphoric Reality, but it was an extended post. If you scroll down on the page I've linked to here you'll find a set of videos that include children telling an adult she is going to hell. It's particularly sad when you see the younger little boy say something and then turn to look up at the adult male in the video—who I'm guessing to be his father. The little boy seems to me to be seeking the older man's approval, or validation, for his words.

I can't say I agree with the writer of the post that the kids need a beating (though I think she was being facetious). Their young minds are being filled with whatever agenda the adults in control wish to push on them. But it's going to be pretty tough for these boys to learn to study and reason for themselves as they grow into manhood, which makes me more than a little anxious about their future place in society. I hope they do at least begin to read a few more Bible verses for themselves, including the set of verses we call The Lord's Prayer—and the verses that repeat what we generally refer to as The Golden Rule.

These little guys shown in the video are apparently being taught to judge their fellow human beings. It really reminds me that each of us, in praying The Lord's Prayer for Our Father to treat and forgive us as we treat and forgive others, had better really think about exactly what it is that we're saying. Whether our concept of hell is a place of fire and brimstone or total separation from God, we could be asking for our own misery if we pray The Lord's Prayer and then choose to condemn others instead of leaving judgment up to The One we're praying that prayer to.

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