Thread:~Silverstream/@comment-2041242-20140830003538/@comment-24442508-20140830033604

@Wikia Contributor 98.180.10.13

On point 2 I don't totally agree with you. The idea that God is unknowable and so you shouldn't question anything is a silencing technique used by conservatives whenever something bad happens.

I've always believed that the Bible has metaphors and while studying it I've noticed (probably because of my Mom who studied child development for her doctoral thesis in education when she was at Harvard) that in some ways the bible is a metaphor for how people develop both emotionally as well as psychologically. (In the sense that children go from if their toy rolls under the couch, it no longer exists to realizing that they can reach under the couch and get it back.)

Similarly, if God created the universe, then he is a being of a higher power, and we are like children to him. In our world, if your baby wanted to run into traffic, you would immediatly scoop him up, knowing that it wasn' safe, but from the baby's perspective, the traffic is the most amazing thing and he will cry while in your arms. Likewise, we are like toddlers to God who protects us from dangers we do not know are dangers.

But like Silverstream said, the best thing for a parent to do, it to give your children space to grow and learn and make mistakes.

@Tomas, given that I am gay, how could I mind them?