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RE: A couple of questions for atheists
January 5, 2015 at 11:51 am
Good point. I'm dumbfounded by the amount of people who know nothing about evolution, and continue to talk about it at length for months, on the internet. I suppose they got all their information from answersingenesis and christiancompletelies.com
We should not even be discussing whether or not evolution is true, come on! I saw a badger give birth to a leopard just 5 minutes ago.
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RE: A couple of questions for atheists
January 5, 2015 at 11:59 am
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Let me introduce you to Mr Dunning kruger. The bastard who ruins my job most days.
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RE: A couple of questions for atheists
January 5, 2015 at 12:03 pm
(January 5, 2015 at 11:51 am)robvalue Wrote: Good point. I'm dumbfounded by the amount of people who know nothing about evolution, and continue to talk about it at length for months, on the internet. I suppose they got all their information from answersingenesis and christiancompletelies.com
We should not even be discussing whether or not evolution is true, come on! I saw a badger give birth to a leopard just 5 minutes ago.
I had an interesting class in high school in which the teacher discussed how to find good information vs bad information - it was partially a philosophy class, but we discussed skeptical items as well. Unfortunately, it was only for the IB students - not the "plebs". It should have been requisite for everyone.
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RE: A couple of questions for atheists
January 5, 2015 at 12:04 pm
What's an IB student, Summerqueen?
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RE: A couple of questions for atheists
January 5, 2015 at 12:06 pm
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RE: A couple of questions for atheists
January 5, 2015 at 4:14 pm
(January 5, 2015 at 11:51 am)robvalue Wrote: Good point. I'm dumbfounded by the amount of people who know nothing about evolution, and continue to talk about it at length for months, on the internet. I suppose they got all their information from answersingenesis and christiancompletelies.com
We should not even be discussing whether or not evolution is true, come on! I saw a badger give birth to a leopard just 5 minutes ago.
Remember scopes monkey trial also the ACLU is smart enough to defend evolution. People do not see evolution as fact want want to feel special and hand crafted by a god....
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RE: A couple of questions for atheists
January 5, 2015 at 4:45 pm
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Parents generally bring up their children the best they know how. The kind of measures it would take to prevent that, except in the more extreme cases where the harm to the child is readily apparent, in my opinion would be a worse problem than the one those measures would address.
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January 5, 2015 at 8:26 pm
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1) I only think it's child abuse if it's indoctrination to the point of "the Bible/Quran/insertreligioustexthere is infallible fact".
I think that, if you're going to raise your child religious, you should do it encouraging them to approach the Bible and religious teaching with critical analysis. Teach them that the Bible is at least a semi-fictional symbolic story, and to listen to the teachings of the religion and make up their own mind whether they agree or not.
I definitely think threatening your child with Hell, especially for petty and/or victimless "crimes" like homosexuality or gender-noncomformity, is very abusive. No child should be threatened with Hell. Ever.
2) I'm completely secularist, so I think religion should be kept totally out of education (apart from in a historical or societal context). Religion should never be forced onto anyone.
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RE: A couple of questions for atheists
January 6, 2015 at 6:33 am
Then let me be the first to welcome you to AF. And I see you've made an avatar. You get on with your bad self.
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RE: A couple of questions for atheists
January 6, 2015 at 7:12 am
Hi nuclear jag, welcome  Thanks for joining in the discussion, I agree with your observations.
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