[ExI] Rick Warren on religion

[William Flynn Wallace]

OK, John, I'll call your bluff - I don't have any data,though I suppose I
could get some, but do you?  Most children wind up in the same religion and
so forth?

bill w

On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 7:32 PM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Sat, Dec 8, 2018 at 12:25 PM William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >> So be  careful what you tell very young children because they'll
>>> probably believe you, possibly for life.
>>
>>
>> *>Or at least until they reach the teen years, or possibly before.  Have
>> you two never heard of teenage rebellion against adult ideas?*
>>
>
> Sure but most of the rebellion is over pretty minor stuff such as length
> of hair or types of music, and  the issues of more substance such as drugs
> and sexual matters are exactly the same as what the parents rebelled
> against when they were teens. The rebellious teens almost always end up
> with the same religion as the parents, political philosophy is a little
> more variable but not a lot. In reality the motto of most teenagers is "I
> want to be a rebel just like everybody else".
>
> John K Clark
>
>
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