I’ve been enjoying the CBS show Kid Nation but I’m learning a lot about society in noticing the same tendencies in these kids as I see on so many of the adult reality shows. There’re individuals that stand out for one reason or another good or bad, and Kid Nation has Taylor, the 10 year-old bossy little b…. who goes around telling everyone to "deal with it!" that would have had her swinging from the nearest cottonwood in my town by now. But there’s more telling things about our current culture as a whole.
How very sad, from the very instant that the idea is brought up of a single religious service for all to share, these children, aged 8 to 15 are immediately spouting off what they’ve been taught by their parents: Religion always leads to war. And they start to fight.
But here’s where childhood innocence overcomes rhetoric. They got together, bowed heads, and shared a short period of peace and celebration and felt better for it.
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