We Have to Accept Ourselves, As We Are

This was not how my parents operated - they would only accept people as they should be. Because as they were, was obviously inadequate. Everyone had to strive against worldliness.

This was one of the heritages of Christianity - as amplified by Protestantism, and that peculiar American religion: Mormonism.

For my parents. this was not peculiar at all - but part of their superiority.

I hardly need tell you. that this attitude was a failure - and resulted in the eventual disappearance of their little church.

And I hardly need tell you, that this is one of the reasons America has failed. Americans have not accepted people as they were - but as they wanted them to be - regardless of the facts.

They have the amazing ability to see things as they should be - not as they are.