this answer is actually really bad -- the details don't matter. What LW is asking for can be taken out of the context of church, and translated into a standard dear Prudence letter:
Dear Prudence, I'm trying to raise my kids in a certain way and my dad keeps telling them the opposite, and when I try to argue with him he goads me in ways that I cannot actually have a conversation. How do I set rules for how I want things discussed in front of my kids in a way that doesn't require me actually winning an argument with my parents? How do I do it in a way that doesn't hurt my relationship with my father any more than it has to?
That's the actual question at hand, and the philosophical and religious beliefs of the LW are irrelevant and I think prudence is almost asking out of a sense of prurience.
(Also,
Do you believe in both creationism and evolution? (I don’t want to get too into it but you wouldn’t be alone if you did
It's not that exotic! That's basically mainstream Orthodox Judaism, FFS! As my dad used to say (paraphrasing) "my G-d is not so small that he could not have simultaneously created the world in 7 days and billions of years. The actions of God don't need to be things that I can wrap my brain around, and both the science and the book can be true.")
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this answer is actually really bad -- the details don't matter. What LW is asking for can be taken out of the context of church, and translated into a standard dear Prudence letter:
Dear Prudence, I'm trying to raise my kids in a certain way and my dad keeps telling them the opposite, and when I try to argue with him he goads me in ways that I cannot actually have a conversation. How do I set rules for how I want things discussed in front of my kids in a way that doesn't require me actually winning an argument with my parents? How do I do it in a way that doesn't hurt my relationship with my father any more than it has to?
That's the actual question at hand, and the philosophical and religious beliefs of the LW are irrelevant and I think prudence is almost asking out of a sense of prurience.
(Also,
It's not that exotic! That's basically mainstream Orthodox Judaism, FFS! As my dad used to say (paraphrasing) "my G-d is not so small that he could not have simultaneously created the world in 7 days and billions of years. The actions of God don't need to be things that I can wrap my brain around, and both the science and the book can be true.")