Sending young men and women out into strange (and often foreign) places to encounter whatever they’ll encounter seems a rather odd way to keep them in a protective bubble.
By almost sheer chance, I just came across this wonderful blog entry that I recommend to all and sundry:
http://www.jrganymede.com/2015/09/21/the-sheltered-ones/comment-page-1/#comment-462572
It makes a point not altogether unrelated to one that I myself attempted to make in a Deseret News column written back during the days of the Mitt Romney presidential campaign:
“Are Mormons spared from reality? Hardly.”
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