(May 18, 2017 at 9:47 am)SteveII Wrote:As Mr Agenda says, 4000 good news clubs in public schools across the country, and a lot of evangelicals, of which there are more than a few.(May 17, 2017 at 10:07 pm)Aroura Wrote: No, we don't agree. Because I don't agree they are willful sinners, or that what they are doing it is objectively wrong. Yes, children's behavior needs correcting. But it is decidedly harmful to teach them, in addition to normal correction, that the reason they are like this is that they are born tainted sinners. That addition make all the difference.
I do appreciate you trying to make peace, CL, but teaching children they are born evil and the only thing that can erase that evil is belief in Jesus, (NOT their own behavior or other choices), is vile to me.
I've sadly had dealings with groups such as The Good New Club.
Who is teaching a two year old that they a born tainted sinners? You are blowing this way out of proportion!
Now you are pivoting to the term "evil" to make your objection appear stronger. Evil is a moral term and we have already established that a young child is not morally responsible. The point has always been that we are born knowing how to be selfish, intolerant, harmful, etc. and need to be taught these things are wrong.
Teaching it to a 6 year old in Kindergarden, or a 20 year old in church does not make it better.
And you ignored that I used your own words for most of the statement and pick out the word evil. Fine, I take back the word evil, and insert your own word, sin, and reassert my statement. Teaching people that they are born in sin and jesus is the only way to fix that sin is morally repugnant and harmful to the mental state of humans, children included.
And back back back to CL. You can imagine god outside of space and time, but not sentient computers? Frankly I'm surprised. I mean, people have been imagining sentient computers for well over 100 years. Sometimes they are dangerous, as in The Matrix and Terminator, sometimes friendly as in My Iron Giant and I Robot and also Terminator and The Matrix, lol.
Aren't you familiar with some of these modetn stories? When you watch them, you don't, for a time, imagine sentient macines taking both moral and imoral actions, as they are happening in the movie?
“Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead