{"id":1124,"date":"2020-02-20T22:52:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T22:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2020-02-20T22:52:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T22:52:28","slug":"the-folly-of-dont-be-a-prude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/?p=1124","title":{"rendered":"The Folly of “Don’t Be a Prude”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I was asked what picture comes to mind when I think of patriotism.\u00a0 The image that came to me was Lady Justice.\u00a0 We saw a beautiful Greek marble sculpture of her at\u00a0Jasmine Hill Gardens in Wetumpka, Alabama<\/a>\u00a0of which I later regretted not buying since it was sold when we went back.<\/p>\n

This prompted me to look up images on the Internet which led to some fascinating learning.\u00a0 Lady Justice is often accompanied by Prudencia\u00a0.\u00a0 Who’s Prudencia?\u00a0 That’s what I asked.\u00a0 I was delighted as to what I learned.\u00a0 But first, allow me to explore why we are so ignorant of Prudencia.\u00a0 It comes from the word prudence.\u00a0 A virtue that has been mocked as of recent era.\u00a0 Think about it.\u00a0 How often do you hear, “Oh, don’t be a prude!”<\/p>\n

This slogan is popular during times of entertainment and lighthearted desires that are more concerned with an immediate personal high usually at the cost of another’s misfortune of some sort.\u00a0 This motto takes its victim’s down the slippery slope of poor judgement.\u00a0 Take a look at the results summarized in this chart that it will ultimately yield.<\/p>\n

\"Prudence<\/a><\/p>\n

I created the visual above inspired from a summary\u00a0Wikipedia’s overview on prudence<\/a>.\u00a0 The results are tragic.\u00a0 So why do so many propagate this saying?\u00a0 I believe it stems from the power of peer pressure.<\/p>\n

When studied prudence and wisdom are synonyms.\u00a0 \u00a0They are more or less interchangeable in meaning.\u00a0 But over time that they’ve been separated.\u00a0 Otherwise who would listen to “Don’t be wise?”\u00a0 Doesn’t in mean the same thing as “Don’t be a prude?”<\/p>\n

Prudence is known as the\u00a0auriga virtutum<\/em> the power behind all of the virtues.\u00a0 Why wouldn’t we want to be associated with that?\u00a0 Is evil that popular?\u00a0 According to the book of Proverbs<\/a>, it is especially common with the youth otherwise known as pre-teen, teen, and young adult of today’s standards and the wicked.<\/p>\n

So if you would take time and consider, what would be better for you, your family, your community,\u00a0 your country, and ultimately the world?<\/p>\n

\"Prudence<\/a><\/p>\n

Honestly assess what power is ultimately needed to pursue such virtue.\u00a0 Then click on this link to hear a fantastic song by Michael Card that summarizes it well:The Way of Wisdom<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For further reading:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/sjohio.org\/assets\/templates\/mycustom\/ethereal\/files\/lesson\/holyspirit\/Lesson27ATheCardinalVirtueof%20Prudence.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prudence<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.alamy.com\/stock-photo\/prudentia.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently I was asked what picture comes to mind when I think of patriotism.\u00a0 The image that came to me was Lady Justice.\u00a0 We saw a beautiful Greek marble sculpture of her at\u00a0Jasmine Hill Gardens in Wetumpka, Alabama\u00a0of which I later regretted not buying since it was sold when we went back. This prompted me … Continue reading The Folly of “Don’t Be a Prude”<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1143,"href":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions\/1143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopetheparentteacher.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}