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Lying to your children
September 20, 2011 at 12:57 pm
How as a society can we lie to our children and then turn around and get upset about when the lie to us. This is I think one of major reasons of my decline in my faith. And yet this still goes on, they teach creationism in my son's science class. an unproven idea and it's not even science why is it in a science class. With being a former theist, I yes lied to my son about the supernatural, and in hindsight I feel ashamed and guilty about it. Letting my son believe in God, the easter bunny, santa clause, tooth fairy like they were living entities but screw humpty dumpty. I'm sorry but looking at in now from a free mind that is child abuse at a sick level.
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RE: Lying to your children
September 20, 2011 at 12:59 pm
Well then it's up to you to try to educate your child, teaching them how to assess claims and use critical thinking and reason. No good wallowing in self pity because of what you used to do. You should also lobby against creationism being taught in their classroom. Is that actually happening? Where are you from?
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RE: Lying to your children
September 20, 2011 at 1:09 pm
No it's a public school and they have the thing that they want to be fair to each ideal so not to piss of anyone. and yes i do teach my son critical thinking and it's not my son i'm concerned about it's the millions and millions of brainwashed kids out their that will grow up believing an unproven concept as truth. and willing to go die or kill even for that insanity
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RE: Lying to your children
September 20, 2011 at 1:14 pm
Yeah but where are you from? Because I'm not aware of any Western country where that's legal.
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RE: Lying to your children
September 20, 2011 at 1:18 pm
I live in eugene, oregon, and here they have to at least make it fair or so they say. when it comes to the way that life begans stuff.
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RE: Lying to your children
September 20, 2011 at 1:20 pm
(This post was last modified: September 20, 2011 at 1:20 pm by ElDinero.)
No. It's unconstitutional. If you're seriously telling us that the Bible is being taught as a scientific or historical account of anything, you need to look up the Dover case and take it to the school board and threaten them with legal action. They will remove it from the curriculum immediately, or if not, you might become a minor celebrity for a while as you take them to court.
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RE: Lying to your children
September 20, 2011 at 1:23 pm
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sadly the dove case only says that creationism is not the only thing to be allowed to be taught in school, if i rememeber right, and that's how they got around that loop hole. that's if i read it right.. it's been a long time. and it's not like full out teaching it just mentions the adam and eve story as opposed to the big bang or darwinism
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RE: Lying to your children
September 20, 2011 at 1:28 pm
No, dude. It's illegal, trust me. Look it up, it's your kid.
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RE: Lying to your children
September 20, 2011 at 1:32 pm
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Tammy Kitzmiller, et al. v. Dover Area School District, et al. (400 F. Supp. 2d 707, Docket no. 4cv2688) was the first direct challenge brought in the United States federal courts testing a public school district policy that required the teaching of intelligent design.[1] In October 2004 the Dover Area School District changed its biology teaching curriculum to require that intelligent design be presented as an alternative to evolution theory,
all it says is creationism can not be taught as an alternative not as and addition to
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