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TIME: DEFINED WHEN SOMETHING IS BORN UNTIL IT DIES, THE SPACE BETWEEN IS CALLED TIME.
NOW THEY TELL US THIS AFTER THEY REMOVE THE BIBLE FROM SCHOOL? THEY HAVE THEIR NERVE.
STUDY: RELIGION IS GOOD FOR KIDS
NOW THEY TELL US THIS, NOW THEY DO A STUDY, AFTER 2 OR 3 GENERATIONS OF YOUTH ARE LOST TO HELL THEY DARE TELL US WHAT WE ALREADY KNEW, AFTER THEY REMOVE THE BIBLE FROM SCHOOLS AND AUTHORIZE THE KILLING AND MURDER OF 40 + MILLION SOULS (CHILDREN OF THE WOMB), AFTER MUCH ATTACK OF CHRISTIANITY THEY DARE SPEAK AS THOUGH THEY WHO STATE GOD IS THE CREATOR OF EVOLUTION IN LIES, NOW THEY STATE THIS HYPOCRISY AS THOUGH THEY THEMSELVES WERE TO ESCAPE THE FLAMES OF HELL?
REVELATION 22:11
11 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.
YOU MADE YOUR BED AND THROUGH THE KILLING OF MANY CHRISTIANS AND THOSE OF THE LORD YOU HAVE CUT SHORT TO THE DEATH, NOW LIE IN YOUR UNHOLY MANNER AND EAT THAT WHICH YOU SERVED TO UNCOUNTLESS MILLIONS AND LAY THE BED WHICH YOU HAVE COVERED WITH YOUR TAPESTRY OF IVORY AND GOLD.
Melinda Wenner Special to LiveScience LiveScience.comTue Apr 24, 10:45 AM ET
Kids with religious parents are better behaved and adjusted than other children, according to a new study that is the first to look at the effects of religion on young child development. The conflict that arises when parents regularly argue over their faith at home, however, has the opposite effect. John Bartkowski, a Mississippi State University sociologist and his colleagues asked the parents and teachers of more than 16,000 kids, most of them first-graders, to rate how much self control they believed the kids had, how often they exhibited poor or unhappy behavior and how well they respected and worked with their peers. The researchers compared these scores to how frequently the children’s parents said they attended worship services, talked about religion with their child and argued abut religion in the home. The kids whose parents regularly attended religious services—especially when both parents did so frequently—and talked with their kids about religion were rated by both parents and teachers as having better self-control, social skills and approaches to learning than kids with non-religious parents. But when parents argued frequently about religion, the children were more likely to have problems. "Religion can hurt if faith is a source of conflict or tension in the family," Bartkowski noted. Why so good? Bartkowski thinks religion can be good for kids for three reasons. First, religious networks provide social support to parents, he said, and this can improve their parenting skills. Children who are brought into such networks and hear parental messages reinforced by other adults may also "take more to heart the messages that they get in the home," he said. Secondly, the types of values and norms that circulate in religious congregations tend to be self-sacrificing and pro-family, Bartkowski told LiveScience. These "could be very, very important in shaping how parents relate to their kids, and then how children develop in response," he said. Finally, religious organizations imbue parenting with sacred meaning and significance, he said. University of Virginia sociologist W. Bradford Wilcox, who was not involved in the study, agrees. At least for the most religious parents, "getting their kids into heaven is more important than getting their kids into Harvard," Wilcox said. But as for why religious organizations might provide more of a boost to family life than secular organizations designed to do the same thing, that’s still somewhat of a mystery, said Annette Mahoney, a psychologist at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, also not involved in the research. Mahoney wondered: "Is there anything about religion and spirituality that sets it apart?" Unanswered questions: Bartkowski points out that one limitation of his study, to be published in the journal Social Science Research, is that it did not compare how denominations differed with regards to their effects on kids. "We really don’t know if conservative Protestant kids are behaving better than Catholic kids or behaving better than mainline Protestant kids or Jewish kids," he said. It’s also possible that the correlation between religion and child development is the other way around, he said. In other words, instead of religion having a positive effect on youth, maybe the parents of only the best behaved children feel comfortable in a religious congregation. "There are certain expectations about children’s behavior within a religious context, particularly within religious worship services," he said. These expectations might frustrate parents, he said, and make congregational worship "a less viable option if they feel their kids are really poorly behaved."
