How would you respond if your own son or daughter told you one day that they wanted to be a televangelist?
Others on R&S often ask this same question, but about the kids saying they wanted to be gay or atheist.
Others on R&S often ask this same question, but about the kids saying they wanted to be gay or atheist.
Anonymous
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I'd tell them there's more to life than sex and money.
Anonymous
Yeah. I've seen the questions.
If my son said he wanted to be a televangelist I would consider myself a failure as a parent, because somewhere along the line I hadn't explained Christianity to him. But I would respond by telling him that a person cannot simply declare themselves to be an evangelist of any kind.
Rob P
I would continue to love them with all of the love a father holds for his children. I would support him/her with all my means and hope that he/she would become the best televangelist they desire to be.
The same applies if they said they were gay or wished to be a stock broker or a waitress or a garbage collector. They are my children and I will always love them and support them with the only exception being that whatever they are is not hurting others or themselves, directly or indirectly.
Same if they choose to be atheist, agnostic, Christian, Buddhist, Jain, Hindu, Taoist, etc.
Love is what we are to be, always.
Blessings
skepsis
I'd suggest that the kid take his reputation more seriously. There are more honorable greed professions than televangelist: stock speculator, insurance company executive, corporate lobbyist, Fox news pundit, ...
Anonymous
Tevelangelist is much worse then gay or atheist.
I pray this day never comes, but hey watcha gonna do you gotta love the little tuckers.