(September 11, 2011 at 10:31 pm)LunchBox Wrote: Christian Apologetics is the whoring out of learned scientific principles to fit an unscientific agenda. The only thing more offensive than that, is watching Christians of reasonable intelligence foam at the mouth that they now have "scientific PROOF" for their [G]od...yet they know nothing about science, and their aura of theological appeasement lulls them into being too lazy to find out for themselves or even ask relevant questions.
The solution to this horrifying problem of apologetics is as simple as it is elegant.
It is education. Pure and simple and not even of dispellilng their filthy myths, addressing their individual twists and spins as they come, or even having our youth memorize facts.
They simply need to be educated about how the world and life work to the best of human knowledge.
The greatest fear is not the apologetics. It's the people trying to teach apologetics in lieu of the concepts the apologetics twist. The real horror isn't the apologetic twists of science to 'prove' non-science, but the politicians and community leaders who would diminish education.
The greatest tool of tyrants, con-artists, and demogauges is ignorance.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
