Re: A Modern-Day Stoning?!? "Cold Case" Smears Christian Kids

> >-- has kept 
> >that pattern in vogue, along with the modern fa****on of "cool", which
> >requires a casual and cynical attitude toward everything, lest one be
> >accused of sentimentality, naivete, or downright foolishness.  In 
> >other words, it wasn't always this way, so, welcome to the modern
> >world.  Like it or not.
> 
> That's not to say that old attitudes in television and movie writing
> were any less ridiculous then than they are now.

No argument there!

> >I often don't, myself, but then again . . . wouldn't you rather know 
> >that if your kid tells you that your local priest has been molesting 
> >him, there's a chance that the kid is not a rotten little vessel of 
> >evil whom you have to whale the tar out of to make him stop 
> >telling wicked lies, but maybe a truth-telling victim who can be 
> >helped, meanwhile getting the offending priest away from other 
> >kids as well?  I like the more realistic view, myself; less chance of
> >getting swallowed up by pitfalls you never dreamed might be
> >there.
> 
> I'd prefer knowing that parents really are on their own kids' sides and
> don't let outsiders tell them when they should be believed.

Ah, well, these are tangled matters, in tangled times . . . 

C