I'm glad Elon's trying to take a stand against wokeness. But honestly to me it shows that he didn't put in the effort up front to protect his son. Sure the hospital website has a blurb that says "puberty blockers are safe and effective, and just give your child more time to decide". But if you actually read the medical literature, there has never been any evidence to show that. There is also tons of evidence for disastrous long term health effects. If he had spent a few hours doing research before signing those documents he may have been able to save his son.
My grandma and grandpa were faithful believers in Jesus. Only one of their 3 children are Christian. One is a far left "unitarian", the other goes to methodist church that doesn't teach the Bible and there doesn't seem to be evidence of faith, and my dad is a strong Christian believer.
You can be the best parent in the world and that's no guarantee that your children will turn out well.
It's your responsibility to raise your children correctly, but the children have responsibility to listen and take the good advice too. And some children have the intent to do evil.
We have many stories in the Bible of moral fathers who had one child that was godly and another who was not. Jacob and Esau for example, sons of Isaac.
With Elon, he's not a Christian so by nature he couldn't give the best guidance compared to if he had them in the word of God, but without knowing way more than we know, there's no reason to assume he encouraged this path.
Some kids would prefer to receive the approval of the woke culture over the approval of their parents and no matter what you say or do, the will of that child to go their own way can't be stopped.
I agree. Children are their own people, there's nothing we can do to guarantee they turn out a certain way. That being said I was referring to how he signed some document allowing doctors to "treat" his son. He could have refused to sign it.
Ah, gotcha, yeah I didn't know that. To be fair, hindsight is 20/20 as well. There's things my parents did that they thought were in the best interest that they say, we wish we didn't do that.
And they're Christians.
Elon was until recently basically a typical pretty liberal guy, and still isn't a Christian. Events like these are what helped him wake up and regret can be a powerful motivator to not repeat mistakes.
I'm glad Elon's trying to take a stand against wokeness. But honestly to me it shows that he didn't put in the effort up front to protect his son. Sure the hospital website has a blurb that says "puberty blockers are safe and effective, and just give your child more time to decide". But if you actually read the medical literature, there has never been any evidence to show that. There is also tons of evidence for disastrous long term health effects. If he had spent a few hours doing research before signing those documents he may have been able to save his son.
How do we know he didn't?
My grandma and grandpa were faithful believers in Jesus. Only one of their 3 children are Christian. One is a far left "unitarian", the other goes to methodist church that doesn't teach the Bible and there doesn't seem to be evidence of faith, and my dad is a strong Christian believer.
You can be the best parent in the world and that's no guarantee that your children will turn out well.
It's your responsibility to raise your children correctly, but the children have responsibility to listen and take the good advice too. And some children have the intent to do evil.
We have many stories in the Bible of moral fathers who had one child that was godly and another who was not. Jacob and Esau for example, sons of Isaac.
With Elon, he's not a Christian so by nature he couldn't give the best guidance compared to if he had them in the word of God, but without knowing way more than we know, there's no reason to assume he encouraged this path.
Some kids would prefer to receive the approval of the woke culture over the approval of their parents and no matter what you say or do, the will of that child to go their own way can't be stopped.
I agree. Children are their own people, there's nothing we can do to guarantee they turn out a certain way. That being said I was referring to how he signed some document allowing doctors to "treat" his son. He could have refused to sign it.
Ah, gotcha, yeah I didn't know that. To be fair, hindsight is 20/20 as well. There's things my parents did that they thought were in the best interest that they say, we wish we didn't do that.
And they're Christians.
Elon was until recently basically a typical pretty liberal guy, and still isn't a Christian. Events like these are what helped him wake up and regret can be a powerful motivator to not repeat mistakes.