The stereotype about religious conservatives is that they step in all the time, and tell you what you need to do. Some of us are that way, some of us aren't, and give you a piece of our mind when you step in and tell us how to live our life. Both sides are doing it to each other, but I will make clear one thing - I don't assume anything about a child. Presume, maybe, but not assume.
The Tenth Commandment convicts Christians not to covet, and opposes all entitlement. The Greek root word denoting entitlement in the New Testament is πλεονέκτης (Latin: pleonektés) and refers, in this context, to parental entitlement leading to antisocial "assume", which is wanting to believe something about your child, to the point of seeking to treat them in a manner that reflects said assumption. It is the attitude of "I am a good parent, so I know exactly what my child needs"
Any time you assume something a child wants or needs, you run the risk of being wrong. Are you willing to be wrong, especially if your child points it out? If not, you are guilty of the moral crime of antisocial "assume".
When I see a child in the store, I simply see the child. I know nothing about the child, so I project nothing. Most people may create a whole story about a child they never knew in the store. I don't. Righteous judgment is centered inherently in the brain so that you end up presuming innocence in everyone, and presuming nothing nonetheless. All I have is suspicion, and suspicion is not the same as accusation, and simply acknowledges capacity in individuals in relation to culpability, thus children may have the capacity to do a wrong act, that doesn't mean it is sin due to culpability, which requires, under biblical law, for the child to be under the age of majority.
The Greek root word denoting Christian love for a child in the New Testament is αγαπαο (Latin: agapao) and refers to a form of submission to a child, based on the parent or similarly charged adult submitting to the child, knowing how sinister and evil their nature is in relation to children, and that they have the capacity for harm, admitting complete and total ignorance over what it is like to be a child, knowing that you forgot, and should shut up and let the children have fun, being energetic and rambunctious while adults are silent in a listening type of way...I know nothing about any child's life, or any single individual's life in particular. I can have an idea sometimes, but it isn't something I'd assume knowing because of a label.
"Child" is a label you admit ignorance to, and assume that they are under age 18 and the gender they present, and that's it. The rest they tell you. You do not speak over their needs, in relation to age or development. You respect what they need. Anyone under age 18 is a child by the children's rights standard, and law of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania concerning the age of majority. Antisocial "assume" can come in the form of collective perjury when perceiving offense against a group of children just because of being in that subgroup (ex. pedophilic children).'
The depraved and wicked parents will not inherit the Kingdom of God! Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!
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