{"id":16998,"date":"2022-10-04T21:45:54","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T03:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicsquaremag.org\/?p=16998"},"modified":"2023-08-10T15:12:21","modified_gmt":"2023-08-10T21:12:21","slug":"talking-to-kids-and-adults-about-the-culture-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publicsquaremag.org\/dialogue\/social-justice\/talking-to-kids-and-adults-about-the-culture-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking to Kids (and Adults) About the Culture War"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teaching young children how to steer around inevitable culture war conflicts is hard. Even when we feel we have figured out a tricky topic to our satisfaction, the answers and methods we apply as adults are often too subtle to convey to kids.\u00a0 Parents in need of simple things to say may sometimes feel we have to choose between teaching kids a simple plain truth, which may lead to blowback if they repeat it in public, and fudging it with a simple half-truth.<\/span><\/p>\n

There is no way to get around this problem entirely, and sooner or later, kids will have to learn to deal with the complexity themselves. But while the content of culture war disputes is often complex, the nature of the conflict itself is quite simple, to the point that kids can understand it. It can be summed up as, \u201cWe have our religion, and other people have theirs. We don\u2019t agree about everything, and that\u2019s OK.\u201d I\u2019ve come to believe that correctly framing the conflict goes a long way toward finding our way peacefully through it for both kids and adults.<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve <\/span>argued previously<\/span><\/a> that we should frame widespread disaffection from the Church somewhat less in terms of \u201cleaving the Church\u201d and more in terms of \u201cjoining\u201d another one. <\/span>At least among educated white members in North America, the story of recent widespread disaffection is mostly one of widespread conversion to an alternative religion, which we can call contemporary American expressivism. <\/span>Similarly, the story of the contemporary \u201cculture war\u201d is, in significant part, the story of the emergence of this new religion and the conflicts that have arisen between it and traditional religions.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you accept this framing, a couple of things become clear.<\/span><\/p>\n

For one, as I and others have written about before, a person can\u2019t be all-in on both the Church and wokeism (or any other comprehensive worldview). You can find the truth that exists in other religions, but you can only honestly adhere to one religion at a time.<\/span><\/p>\n

We have our religion, and other people have theirs.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n

For another, if wokeism is a religion, then it should have the same social status as ours. Specifically, you don\u2019t have to convert to it, the same way other people don\u2019t have to join our church. You can respect the religion, see what is good about it, and still decline to participate in its customs or adopt its worldview.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is important to remember when helping kids navigate new situations. For instance, think about what you would say if your young child asked you what the big rainbow flag at the grocery store meant. At the same time, consider a less familiar (but real) scenario. Many people in your neighborhood are observant Muslims who have recently immigrated from other countries. When tensions flare up in Palestine, many of them march peacefully along the street with flags and banners to support the Palestinian cause. Often their chants include a slogan that local supporters of Israel consider offensive. What do you tell your kids if they ask what the symbols and chants mean?<\/span><\/p>\n

In both scenarios, it\u2019s simple and true to say that while we have our church and our religious beliefs, not everyone is part of our church. And other people have their own religious beliefs. We agree with some of the things they believe and other things we don\u2019t, but we try to respect their beliefs, and we hope they respect ours too.<\/span><\/p>\n

We might also add: The people who fly the rainbow flag are part of an American religion that is becoming very popular. There isn\u2019t really a name for the religion yet, but they sometimes call themselves woke. We don\u2019t agree with everything they say about moms and dads, but they are trying to tell people to be nice to everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n

Likewise, the people marching and chanting were Muslims, which means they believe in a religion called Islam. They were talking about a war far away and who they support in that war. Not everybody agrees with them, but they are trying to help other members of their religion.<\/span><\/p>\n

It seems to me that <\/span>the important thing to communicate to young kids in these situations is less the substance of the worldview attached to these symbols and more the social context. <\/span>Kids at this age are probably asking, \u201cwhy are those people doing a thing that we don\u2019t do?\u201d\u2014which is a social question, more than a curiosity about beliefs and values.<\/span><\/p>\n

Answering this question is important because, up to this point, most of the new symbols kids have encountered are either universal (like, say, road signs) or symbols of our own religion (say, the sacrament) and will be integrated naturally into their own developing worldview. (It\u2019s bad to run through a stop sign, and we should take the sacrament to remember Jesus each Sunday.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Living in a sectarian world, where we encounter symbols and messages that are foreign to us, is more complicated than living in Zion, but it\u2019s not impossible. Kids seem to be able to understand that there are different religions, that not everybody believes the same thing as we do, and that that\u2019s OK. With this understanding, they are in a better position to evaluate messages they encounter without being either uncritical on the one hand or adversarial on the other.<\/span><\/p>\n

This understanding is also useful for adults. Many of us have been asked at some point why we don\u2019t use a symbol or term when it \u201cjust means\u201d equality, kindness, or respect. We may find it difficult to answer. But Latter-day Saints could just as well ask others why they don\u2019t wear, say, CTR rings, which after all \u201cjust mean\u201d that we should choose the right. But we know why: other people don\u2019t wear CTR rings because they are not part of our religion. They may not object to the nominal meaning of a CTR ring, but that doesn\u2019t mean they need to wear one. Neither should church members feel obligated to participate in the customs of religions we aren\u2019t a part of, let alone customs that may cause tension with our own religious beliefs.<\/span><\/p>\n

I am suggesting that we openly\u2014and correctly\u2014frame contemporary American wokism as religion. There is a practical difficulty with this approach, which is that believers in contemporary American wokism, unlike adherents to most religions, usually don\u2019t consider their worldview to be a religious worldview or even a worldview at all. Referring to their beliefs this way, even respectfully, will rub many of them the wrong way or at least cause confusion. But introducing the additional level of abstraction\u2014pointing out that each person speaks according to a contestable worldview\u2014is essential if we want to have productive conversations on culture war topics.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can only honestly adhere to one religion at a time.<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n

Without<\/span><\/i> this correct framing, the conversation will, by default, take place \u201cinside the box\u201d (where the \u201cbox\u201d is the worldview of the other person). In such a conversation, the deck is stacked. At best, the other person will merely come to (mistakenly) believe our religion to be consistent with theirs. At worst, the Christian believer converts himself to the other religion by unwittingly participating in it.<\/span><\/p>\n

If insisting on this framing feels aggressive, notice the wording of the <\/span>11<\/span>th<\/span> Article of Faith<\/span><\/a> of the Church of Jesus Christ: \u201cWe claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.\u201d We regard people of other religions as peers who have the \u201csame privilege\u201d as us, not as our superiors or inferiors. Granting that others may worship how they wish does not imply agreeing to treat their religious worldview as uniquely neutral and universal or to take their beliefs for granted for the purposes of conversation.<\/span><\/p>\n

Which is to say, the unique teachings of contemporary American wokism should not be simply accepted. For example, the religion holds that maleness and femaleness, <\/span>qua<\/span><\/i> the social categories we are all familiar with, are, in fact, categories of <\/span>gender identity<\/span><\/i>, a gnostic sense of one\u2019s identity that is perfectly knowable by the individual but not verifiable or falsifiable by others, even in principle. This is a strong, arguably supernatural teaching which should not be simply accepted unless it is part of a conscious, deliberate conversion to the woke religion.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wokeists also teach that racism, <\/span>qua <\/span><\/i>the social phenomenon almost universally agreed to be very bad, is a structural form of oppression inherent in the relationships between white people and others. Some leaders in the movement teach that racial disparities are <\/span>ipso facto <\/span><\/i>racist. One implication of these teachings is that a white person\u2019s intent does not matter at all for evaluating whether something they do is racist (and thus wrong) and that asking for evidence of racist intent is itself racist.<\/span><\/p>\n

These are strong claims. Similar ethical claims by other religions would be contested by Latter-day Saints and not treated as the new, universal rules of the game. But because this other popular religion has not been framed as a religion, it may not even occur to us to contest the claims. In May-June 2020, many people found it hard to articulate exactly why they felt uncomfortable adopting the symbols of the BLM movement, despite agreeing that black people\u2019s lives mattered and that patterns of racist conduct should be stopped. For most of them, the reason (whether they realized it or not) was that using the symbols signaled adherence to a whole religious worldview\u2014one that teaches dubious dogmas like \u201cintent doesn\u2019t matter.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

—<\/span><\/p>\n

The culture war makes life harder, but the fact that the other religion is a religion should give us some hope of cooling it down. Two warring parties that recognize each other\u2019s interests as valid can often come to a peace agreement. Religions that contextualize themselves and other religions as religions can coexist, despite not being aligned on theological questions.<\/span><\/p>\n

More importantly, the personal understanding of culture war issues as reflecting a plurality of religious views guards us, and our kids, in two different ways. On one level, it reminds us that believers in the other religion deserve respect, the way Muslims or Catholics or Hindus do. It also permits us to identify the truths that exist within the religion. And on another level, it helps us avoid accidental conversion. The barrage of sectarian messages our kids will hear online and at school can, in this framing, be correctly contextualized as teachings of a competing religion that may or may not be true rather than as obvious or neutral messages that ought to be absorbed and integrated into their worldviews as Latter-day Saints.<\/span><\/p>\n

Much of the culture war-related tension we experience as Latter-day Saints boils down to a conflict between two religious worldviews, and much of the trickiness comes from the fact that we are trying to do the impossible: affirm them both at the same time. When we realize that many contemporary \u201csecular\u201d notions about sex, family, race, and other social questions are fundamentally religious in nature, conflicts become much easier to manage\u2014and easier to explain to kids.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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