RE: Billion + believe in Satan. Should all schools be mandated to teach Creationism?
December 2, 2014 at 1:13 pm
(This post was last modified: December 2, 2014 at 1:33 pm by Greatest I am.)
(December 1, 2014 at 6:16 pm)Cato Wrote: I have no problem educating children about the existence of creationism as part of a comparative religion class; better yet, in a mythology class. It has no place alongside evolution in a science curriculum.
I agree.
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DL
(December 1, 2014 at 6:27 pm)Exian Wrote: The only thing holding me back from telling my kid that religion is full on bullshit is the awareness of mortality. Perhaps she will be the type that needs to believe in an afterlife. It's only human.
In the meantime, she will be educated on the laws and theories of life and non-life. The rest I will leave up to her. Hopefully she will be well equipped to ask the right questions.
If she needs to believe in an after life, then she should know that she will have to kowtow to a religion that is likely misogynistic as are all the mainstream religions.
Quite the chance you take with your daughter.
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DL
(December 1, 2014 at 6:35 pm)dyresand Wrote: sure but tell them its not really real and evolution is real not creationism.
we have to many creationists believing we came from god we need more smart innovative people.
No argument.
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DL
(December 1, 2014 at 6:57 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: I'd prefer schools teach critical thinking, personally.
That is the plan and that would be automatically taught as children compare the various creation myths to evolution.
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DL
(December 1, 2014 at 7:47 pm)Alex K Wrote: Hey, I'd be happy if, in my country, they'd stop to officially have church sponsored religious instruction in public schools...
I do not mind religious teaching but I do not promote religious preaching.
Give the kids the facts and let their natural intelligence do the rest.
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DL
(December 1, 2014 at 7:52 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:Do you agree that it is the duty of the U.S. education system to maintain a first world standard of education in the teaching of Creationism, Comparative Religion and Evolution, --- and catch up to more intelligent countries?
"Creationism" needs to be stricken from that sentence. Fucking horseshit.
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Quite foolish that.
The secular adult world is better educated in religion than the religious world and that indicates a secular interest in religious studies. If secular parents want to know and teach themselves religious studies, it follows that they would not mind starting their secular interest in religion earlier for their children. They would vote for a more intelligent level of religious education. It would improve on what is being taught to religious children today.
It is also the duty of the secular world to insure that it's future members are not as deluded by superstitious belief as their parents. The tipping point of belief is fast approaching and duty says that we should facilitate change.
Is a good knowledge base a good defence against superstition?
Yes it is.
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DL
(December 1, 2014 at 8:05 pm)Losty Wrote: Creationism should definitely be taught in a world religions course which should be mandatory and unbiased. It should be legally banned from science classes.
Not required.
No reputable science teacher would include it in his curriculum.
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DL
(December 1, 2014 at 8:09 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:To think years have passed many years we gotten more intelligent and we still believe in a magical man in the clouds created us. No wonder why if there is another sentient beings out there just don't fucking bother with humanity.
The percentage is dropping...slowly but surely.
Too slowly. Not enough non-believers are militant enough. By militant I mean recognizing that it is the duty of all citizens to help kill poor thinking within his country, --- and actively try to correct it.
I do not believe in being nice to harmful brain killing practices.
We are in a mini-Dark Age and the religious right need to be helped into the light.
Vote the religious right down and they will move left.
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DL
(December 1, 2014 at 8:14 pm)Tonus Wrote: Why not teach it as part of a mythology course? No one demands that we add the "Marduk creation story" to the science curriculum; we understand that it belongs with all of the other super-hero stories written before we had typewriters. The Canaanite pantheon misses it's little brother-- send Yahweh back home, where he belongs.
Because comparative religion is an easier sell and will bring less resistance.
Some countries or districts may just do as you suggest.
Thank global, not local.
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DL
