It seems like anything close to religion is evil
2007-02-03 17:00:08 · 15 answers · asked by Black Atheist 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Wow. It sure seems that way. Preachers' kids think their daddy is the boss of the church. So when their daddy is not around they act like they are the boss of everything. Absolute power corrupts absolutely - unknown author.
I am 63 years old. I have been a Christian 52 years. Every preacher kid I have ever seen was a brat and egomaniac. -sorry, but I am at an age that I must tell what I know regardless of politics.
2007-02-03 17:05:26 · answer #1 · answered by MrsOcultyThomas 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If "religion is evil" is where you are coming from anything you encounter can support your thesis.
However I don't buy it. I am a Christian who was raised in the faith, drifted away, became an agnostic, and found my way back to the faith after a number of years.
I have known a number of ministers and preachers, and most of them had good kids. There is something of a myth going around that preacher's kids are not well-behaved, but that's no more prevalent among the clergy than it is the rest of us.
If you don't like religion you are certainly entitled to your beliefs or lack thereof, but religion as such is not evil. Some religious people--not all of them--are.
2007-02-04 01:07:28 · answer #2 · answered by Warren D 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know that does seem to be the case. I think it has to do with them rebelling or trying to get attention from a parent who is so focused on others all the time. I can't say for sure, but to simply blame it on religion would not be the right answer. Although a lot of the ones I know personally actually turned around and got their spiritual lives back on track. One is now going into the ministry. So, in many cases, it is just a stage.
2007-02-04 01:06:45 · answer #3 · answered by The GMC 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is an old saying "The cobbler's kid has no shoes."
That is a way of saying the the shoemaker is so busy making shoes for customers, that they have no time to do it for their children. I think many preachers are that way too, they spend so much time visiting people in hospitals, Feeding poor people creating several sermons a week, and all the other stuff that they do, that they have no energy left for their own kids, it is quite tragic. The best preacher I ever had, had a daughter that was every parents worse nightmare.
2007-02-04 01:08:41 · answer #4 · answered by Mad Maxine 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that a ministers child being rebellious and not respecting authority has nothing to do with religion and all to do with the idividual. Its like social workers whose own children end up taking drugs or policemans son/daughter breaking the law its just about the individual and has nothing to with religion.
2007-02-04 01:08:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most teenage kids are rebelling against their parents. So if the parent is a minister then they have to do things that are against their parent's teaching. If the parent had some other profession, they would do things against that if it were the 'family' profession. I know a man who came from a long line of Medical Doctors, and guess what he did? He became a Priest. His parents were furious.
2007-02-04 01:16:16 · answer #6 · answered by tonks_op 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you choose to ignore the blessings and goodness that has come from religion?
Religion has done more good then evil. This is a subjective reality though not an objective one.
2007-02-04 01:03:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is clear that you have really thought this through. Have you ever considered that the bad ones just stick out more? What your forgetting is that we are all sinners, even preachers kids. Of course it is going to be more noticeable if the pastor's kid is out smoking crack, but there are lots of a-religious people doing that so what's your point? Taking issue with Christianity for having sinners within its ranks is like taking issue with a hospital for having sick people inside.
2007-02-04 01:12:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seems that way doesn't it?
I think there's more pressure placed on Ministers children and nothing they do seems to be good enough so then they just rebel.
2007-02-04 01:05:32 · answer #9 · answered by ♨ Wisper ► 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
PKs are supposed to be perfect little angels. We are supposed to know the bible better than the adults in the congregation. We are supposed to be unfailingly charitable, polite, loving, forgiving...in other words, NOT allowed to be children.
I know, I was one.
It's not a healthy childhood.
I am SO thankful my Dad left the ministry when I was still young enough to not be permanently damaged by it.
2007-02-04 02:10:43 · answer #10 · answered by Praise Singer 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋