RE: Just Curious
August 9, 2013 at 12:12 am
(This post was last modified: August 9, 2013 at 12:21 am by Just-A-Curious-Girl.)
(August 8, 2013 at 4:30 pm)apricot-and-a-coffee Wrote: The thing I really resent about Christians, particularly a lot of fundamentalists within the faith, is the fact that parents in the faith raise their kids Christian. It makes perfect sense for them to want that for their kids, but as someone who was raised that way, I wish parents would let their kids grow old enough to make an educated decision first. (Like Richard Dawkins, I wish parents wouldn't refer to their kids as their "Christian children" when the kids are too young to decide whether they're theists or atheists or not.) I recoil in horror to see how many fundamentalist Christian parents I know are purposefully raising their children to be isolated from the wider world: homeschooling (including teaching them that evolution is silly and creation science is legit), no interacting with anyone outside the church, and heavily monitored media exposure for the child even when the child gets to be in his/her teens. Fostering ignorance and limiting a child like that... well, I'm so glad my Christian parents weren't QUITE that fundamentalist. I'm so glad that the majority of Christians aren't like that, but in certain communities it's (unfortunately) a different story. Anyway, yep, that's my biggest complaint about Christianity.
Ok I have just one question for you...Do you believe that the Christian parents are stopping their children from making a choice on who they will serve when they are 18? I have never met any family who locks up their children how you explained but I am not saying there are not people out there like that.
I think the problem though with most Christians is they want to tell everyone else how to live but they don't want to live it themselves. They don't even truly understand what the 'religion' is all about. But I guess if you choose to believe science you have people like that to. I mean does every atheist even understand the Evolution theory or the Big Bang theory. And another question, What if God and science are both right. Now don't misunderstand me, this is a major what if...
In the bible it tells us that God said let there be light.Well it doesn't say he created the sun.-So maybe God created the Big Bang when he spoke it. It could have taken billions of years because it also tells us in the bible that his time runs different from us. So 6 days to him is like 6 billion years to us?
I don't know guys its just a thought.
