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Pascale Chancey's avatar

I wonder how the cultivation of that detachment you speak in point #18, a detachment toward one’s children (and from one’s own intuition and critical thinking), feeds into the utilitarian approach to politics and the lack of empathy for those marginalized in our society that is observable from certain Christian communities? How does bypassing one’s own moral intuition and judgment and ignoring the emotional wellbeing of vulnerable children train Christian adults (who model for their children) for “the ends always justify the means” kind of ethic and prime them for authoritarianism?

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Angela Sealana's avatar

Hi - Catholic Christian here. 👋🏻 Have you heard of Fr. John Bosco, an Italian who founded the Salesian order of educators? He passed onto them a philosophy which respected a child's ability to learn and was sternly against corporal punishment. He's now a Saint in the Catholic canon of saints and is often called Don Bosco.

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