How come the Catholic kids do so bad compared to Mormons, etc.?

[cestusdei]

I have lived around both mormons and evangelicals. Don’t buy the story. Most kids are alike nowadays.

 

[zerinus]

Do they???

I have my doubts on this one!!!

Youth and inexperience is showing again…

LDS experience proves you wrong. I supposed I should have qualified that statement a little. People taught correctly will act correctly (as a general rule), provided that two conditions are fulfilled: 1) Those who do the teaching enjoy the inspiration of heaven, and teach by the gift and power of the Holy Ghost; and 2) Those who are being taught equally enjoy the gifts of the Spirit, have a spiritual witness of the inspiration of their leaders, and have an inclination to follow their teachings because they discern by the Spirit that they are correct. That holds true of the LDS Church.

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[zerinus]

Because Mormons are held under far more restrictive boundaries socially, which is why they are often, but possibly unfairly, labeled “cultist”. They aren’t even allowed to watch secular films or media when they “are on ministry trips” according to ones I once talked to about how they interpreted Mel Gibson’s passion flick. I wonders if mormons took to it like other christians and they told me they hadn’t seen it because they had been on ministry since it came out and couldn’t watch…(I just thought it was a tacky excuse not to talk about Catholic fiction, but turns out it’s true).

I don’t know what you are referring to here. Who are those whom you call “on ministry trips”? My guess is that you are referring to our missionaries. Well, LDS missionaries serve for two years, and during that time there are a lot of restrictions placed on their activities so that they can focus all their attention on serving a fulltime mission for the Lord. They have to get up at certain hours of the day, and spend a certain amount of time on prayer and scripture study, and then go on their missionary rounds, and return home by a certain time, and go to bed at a certain time. They are not allowed to watch television, or fool around on the Internet, or be distracted by other worldly concerns not related to their missions. It is a bit like being in a monastery for two years. (The older couple missionaries are not subject to the same restrictions.) But once their mission ends they return home, and live a normal life like anybody else.

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[GrammasRose]

This article compares various religions and the teen sexual activities of their adherents:

townhall.com/Columnists/MaggieGallagher/2007/04/04/the_mormon_advantage

How come the Catholic kids do so poorly in comparison to Mormons and Evangelicals?

I don’t believe there is any difference. I have known more mormon girls who have gotten pregnant just because the crowd was doing it. My girlfriends daughter included who gave up her baby to the mormon adoption system.

 

[GrammasRose]

it says: "Only 12.6 percent of Mormon teens had had sex, compared to 18 percent of evangelicals and Catholics, 15 percent of mainliners and 19 percent of Jewish teens. "

… (Mormon teens are also, incidentally, much more likely than any other religious group to report using birth control at first sex, perhaps partly because more Mormons are married before they have sex, but maybe also because the rest REALLY don’t want their moms to find out.)

I was wondering where the kids are? how many were interviewed? What states they come from? These factors are one of the important ones in determining the accuracy of this survey/study.

What else the kids didn’t tell in this report?

ah! Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney’s image is on the article. Is he a Mormon?

Mitt Romney is Mormon

 

[Allweather]

I don’t believe there is any difference. I have known more mormon girls who have gotten pregnant just because the crowd was doing it. My girlfriends daughter included who gave up her baby to the mormon adoption system.

I agree. Young people are the same everywhere, and in all religions. There may be apparent differences, but they are only apparent, not real.

 

[Allweather]

LDS experience proves you wrong.

LDS experiences don’t prove anything, anymore than LDS claims of a Great Apostasy prove that that apostasy is real. He really must use a higher standard of proof.

I supposed I should have qualified that statement a little. People taught correctly will act correctly (as a general rule), provided that two conditions are fulfilled: 1) Those who do the teaching enjoy the inspiration of heaven, and teach by the gift and power of the Holy Ghost; and 2) Those who are being taught equally enjoy the gifts of the Spirit, have a spiritual witness of the inspiration of their leaders, and have an inclination to follow their teachings because they discern by the Spirit that they are correct. That holds true of the LDS Church.zerinus

People have free will. I think that the LDS spend a fair amount of time on that gift of God, don’t they? Maybe this person hasn’t seen enough of life to have known of young people who, in spite of the best teaching, chose a lesser path, at least for a time. It needs to be recognized that life is a process. Where you are today is perhaps not where you will be tomorrow. Growth goes along with free will. You make choices, and those choices help to determine subsequent choices. Young people, in particular, regardless of religion, are prone to rebel, and go against their teachers, at least for awhile, maybe years. “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.” Pr 22:6