(July 20, 2016 at 10:41 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(July 20, 2016 at 10:32 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: I would appreciate it, if you don't insert your words into a quote of mine....actual arguments would be nice too!....
I think my last post made my argument in a maximally precise way, but I'm fine with spelling it out.
You say kids are taught the difference between fact and fiction, but you will not allow them to apply critical standards to the Bible, will you? Will you really spell out the inconsistencies in the Bible and let them make of it what they will?
If you are like most Christians, you will not teach the kid to view the Bible critically. If the kid is dumb enough to ask a smart question, like "If God is good, how come little babies are born with Zika?" the spin will begin, I think. If the kid says, "How do you know God is real?" will you teach him how to distinguish fact from fiction then? Will you teach him scientific principles, and ask him to apply them to the Bible as honestly as possible?
Now, I don't mean this to attack you. But it's hard for me to see how you will teach a kid to think critically while exposing him to a system of thought that is based on faith.
It is interesting; how often here, and in similar conversations, I find that atheists tell me what I do, what my motivations are, what I believe, why... and so on. And when corrected, it is ignored (much like when evidence is given, and then it is claimed that there is no evidence).
However, to the topic at hand.... do you have a general principle that we can apply critical thinking to, for determining fact from fiction, other than the circular ones described thus far?
