(March 11, 2016 at 11:50 am)Huggy74 Wrote:(March 11, 2016 at 11:43 am)Stimbo Wrote: Actually, Huggy, the analogy wasn't that everyone needs lessons to be a safe driver - I even mentioned that in the analogy - but that being educated in how and why things work beats being indoctrinated with a list of diktat pronouncements even if those pronouncements are perfectly valid. There's even a reference in your special book about teaching a man to fish, such that he knows how to feed himself.
Your problem is assuming that a person of faith is opposed to education...
Which is interesting, since the subject of discussion is indoctrination vs education. Which has been the basis of every post I have made thus far. If that is my problem, what is yours?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'