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Snitching	excon	07/09/05
Hello Christians: Snitching - tattling - ratting - kissing and telling, buring your sources, etc. What is the Christian/moral stand on the subject? Why? Do you keep secrets? Would you go to jail to keep a secret? Is it good or bad to do so? What do you teach your kids? If it's good, why are all the terms describing one who does so, so reviling? If it's good, we should call it kissing or loving. excon
Clarification/Follow-up by excon on 07/10/05 8:15 am: Hello again, Christians: Ok, I got it. Saving a life or property is not snitching. I really didn't think it was. But you people seem to waffell quite a bit. But, my question was about snitching, per se. The real ugly kind. Do you tell the teacher when you saw somebody cheating on a test? Do you call the cops if you see a neighbor smoking dope. Do you rat out your accomplice to save yourself from....... Do you teach your children that informing on people is good or is it bad? What is it? I'm clear on my position. Are you clear on yours? excon Clarification/Follow-up by CeeBee2 on 07/10/05 2:49 pm: excon: I agree with Laura. There are secrets and there are secrets. The trick is knowing which to reveal and which to keep. I won't keep the secret, "I'm going to kill myself" (and will tell the person I have no intention of keeping it after all, even if I had promised, believing it is a cry for help - and will do all I can to find resources and support for that person), but I will keep the secret, "I'm gay" (and will offer help and support as needed and wanted).
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CeeBee2		07/09/05
I just finished googling and found a whole bunch of Christian sites that use proof passages from Psalms and Proverbs to say that telling secrets/tattling/ratting/snitching etc. is not a godly thing to do. Do I keep secrets? Yes. When I became a counselor, I took an oath that I would always keep private and confidential my clients' personal information, upsets, and revelations. I have done that, and also keep confidences here and in real life. Would I go to jail to keep a secret? Yes, I would (and would plan to improve their menus while I was there). I've taught my two sons to be honorable and fair, and, as far as I know, both have always been so. My mother says that once your own secret leaves your heart and travels beyond your lips, it's no longer yours, so be careful whom you tell it to if you think you have to tell it at all.

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