Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:Water Dog,
Your use of 'leaving the church but can't leave it alone' canard isn't applicable to the context of the discussion. You again failed to make your statement make any sense within the confines of the discussion.
Also, I call buuuuuuuuuuuuull ____ on the kids not being allowed to bare their testimonies. The Ward near us does it EVERY SINGLE F&T. My BIL's Ward does it EVERY SINGLE F&T. I attended church in Korea in 2014 and 2015 a few times and the kids were being coached both F&T's I was there.
You. Are. Full of it.
- Doc
I've heard local leaders discourage parents from whispering into a kid's ear during F&T meeting. I also vaguely recall some letter (perhaps First Presidency) being read over the pulpit about proper F&T meeting testimony etiquette. I've never seen this enforced, though.
And regardless, I think there are two distinctions:
1. Even if discouraged in F&T meeting, it's not discouraged elsewhere. In fact, Primary will sometimes have its own testimony meeting, and when dealing with little kids, coaching is inevitable if not impossible.
2. That this girl prepared her testimony in advance and sought input from close family members is not the same as a parent whispering into a kid's ear what to say. Not even close. I remember with my wife's grandmother passed away, her dad and uncle sought input from each other and others when writing their eulogies. What they ended up saying, however, was their words, and it would have been absurd to think that they had been somehow manipulated.
) You try to move the goalposts by stating elements that have nothing to do with the topic at hand. If the little girl's testimony had none of those elements, as you admit, then why do you use those elements to try to re-frame the question?