Daughter wants to leave for FTTA

[aron]

Originally Posted by Drake

Your daughter is a young adult and from your description she has had a deep and moving experience of the Lord so she wants to pursue Him more. No doubt that desire for the Lord would please any parent as I'm sure it does you. Correct?

If her daughter had contacted the Jehovahs Witnesses in University, and was now off to their main training compound, or if she was likewise off to serve the LDS for two years on a mission, or the Unification Church, would this statement of a "deep and moving experience of the Lord" be correct? Or no?

Drake you're making a subjective assessment, obviously biased, about someone else's subjective experience, that this was an "experience of the Lord"; if it was the Mormons or the Moonies you probably wouldn't, even if under simiolar circumstances. You're passing off your subjective assessment as if it were objective fact. "When we do it, it's 'of the Lord', when others, not so much."

Conversely, if her daughter had come home after University and announced that she was going off to seminary to study to become a Baptist minister, the mother might not object, or as strenuously. Why? Again, some subjective response (from the mother) is involved. The mother might be more comfortable, and familiar (but she might also have more objective, 'red flags' in her consideration). There's always bias and subjectivity involved, on all parties'. But the local church passes off their biased assessments as if they were objective truth, and dismisses others' as unfounded. I've never seen such weak, self-serving logic, as with this group.