(March 25, 2015 at 11:40 am)KevinM1 Wrote: The sad/funny thing is that people like Drich and those other parents legitimately think they're in the right with this kind of behavior.I consider it more "dangerous" than "sad/funny." If you believe in your heart that the Bible is the truth, then you can't help but feel for a child whose parent is pulling them away from god. And if you take an ends-justify-the-means approach to the matter (important to note: not every Christian does) you will feel justified in taking any steps to 'save' the child in question. If the parents of the child object to your actions, you may feel that their objections pale in comparison to the good you are doing for the child.
This is one of the ways that religion can do real harm to people, by giving them the motivation to involve themselves in the lives of others and interfere, with the genuine belief that they are doing it for the greater good or at least for the benefit of the person being targeted.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
