A friend shared the following quote:
Strengthening the Family
Elder Ezra Taft Benson
Of the Council of the Twelve
Ezra Taft Benson, Conference Report, October 1970, pp. 21-25
False educational ideas
"As a watchman on the tower, I feel to warn you that one of the chief means of misleading our youth and destroying the family unit is our educational institutions. President Joseph F. Smith referred to false educational ideas as one of the three threatening dangers among our Church members. There is more than one reason why the Church is advising our youth to attend colleges close to their homes where institutes of religion are available. It gives the parents the opportunity to stay close to their children; and if they have become alert and informed as President McKay admonished us last year, these parents can help expose some of the deceptions of men like Sigmund Freud, Charles Darwin, John Dewey, Karl Marx, John Keynes, and others."
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Whatever your faith, the truth is that there are all sorts of deceptions from God's truths out there in the world. It is important to not hide from these deceptions but to identify them and why they are fallacies! Our children will be introduced to them. It would be much better to discuss the relevant issues in our day in the safety of our home and with a healthy, truth-centered context!
The seminaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are introducing this kind of teaching into the seminary program, where our youth will be facing and discussing the tough issues of our day in a gospel-centered environment to give these controversial issues their proper context. It is so important to teach our youth to identify fallacies, if not challenge them.
Keep learning. Keep following the Spirit and God's vision for you and like Joan of Arc and so many others who have listened to their "voices," God will lead you aright.
