@laotzuvanlaotzuvan: My thoughts exactly. I think I really did have the best advantage, having been in a private religious school, public school, and public school. I had the chance to evaluate many things better. I'm NOT a religious person "Bible-thumper", have many long term friends. I do despise the shallowness and politics-like bs of the public school system yet that is what you may encounter in many job environments so it can be a plus for the person that can identify it without being sucked in. All 3 education models lacked something and at the same time provided me with advantageous things. No regrets here but like a shoe, not one size fits all.
@UnOWkNoWYou really haven't clarified your position. What you did say follows:" I would love for my child to go to a rock museum, hell, even learn some evolution. I don't care what he believes..."I can infer that you do not take the discipline of scientific inquiry very seriously, and you see that it poses some threat to your religious viewpoints based only on a few words here. If I'm wrong, correct me.That's your prerogative. You don't have to "believe" in science. You are well within your rights to claim that scientific principles are some how in contradiction to Christian Principles. If you do so, you must admit that your viewpoints are a lot closer to the woman who didn't want her child going to the museum of natural history than those who claim that humans are descendant from apes.Again, that's ok, but that is not stereotyping, that is just natural grouping, and there's nothing wrong with placing people into groups. It would be impossible not to. If you didn't use groups to categorize people, there'd be no way to distinguish you from me, and we surely have different viewpoints (After all, you claim that "Atheists" are always bashing "Christians").Let's be serious though, is there some impending and immediate threat of violence against Christians, or some group of bills that will limit your natural rights that are being passed from Congress to the Presidents Desk to be signed into law? No.You diminish both Jim Crowe Laws and the Holocaust by making the comparison. Both of those events were about hatred and control, and you are experiencing neither of those.
What is the problem? They have a different belief and they don't like things they disagree with being presented as fact - when in fact, they are not. What is with the Christian bashing? This probably would have never even made it on the web if some islamic parent wrote a similar note.
Wait, so it's more embarrassing to believe the earth is 6000 years old than that an all powerful sky genie listens to you, judges you, and cares about you? Like Santa, but with no presents?
Dude, there's more than just two arguments here. >>1: Old Earth + Evolution, as you stated.2: Young Earth + Creation, as you also stated.3: Young Earth + Evolution, which nobody sane believes.But most notably, 4: Old Earth + Creation, which itself has many manifestations. This is what I believe in. I find young earth creation pretty hard to believe because it takes the bible literally word for word. How do you define a 'Day' before the sun and earth were created? Does 'day' mean 24 hours or five magicaljellybeanmonkeyunicornhornpenisjillion years?But of course, you must remember that I'm just a brainwashed, fundamentalist, bible thumping, homeschooled evil conservative abominable croniebuffoon, so how would I know? 8DAll I'm trying to highlight is that there is more than just the two views that you guys appear to be emphasizing.
dacomputerfreakMay 18, 2009
@laotzuvanlaotzuvan: My thoughts exactly. I think I really did have the best advantage, having been in a private religious school, public school, and public school. I had the chance to evaluate many things better. I'm NOT a religious person "Bible-thumper", have many long term friends. I do despise the shallowness and politics-like bs of the public school system yet that is what you may encounter in many job environments so it can be a plus for the person that can identify it without being sucked in. All 3 education models lacked something and at the same time provided me with advantageous things. No regrets here but like a shoe, not one size fits all.
brimisterMay 20, 2009
@UnOWkNoWYou really haven't clarified your position. What you did say follows:" I would love for my child to go to a rock museum, hell, even learn some evolution. I don't care what he believes..."I can infer that you do not take the discipline of scientific inquiry very seriously, and you see that it poses some threat to your religious viewpoints based only on a few words here. If I'm wrong, correct me.That's your prerogative. You don't have to "believe" in science. You are well within your rights to claim that scientific principles are some how in contradiction to Christian Principles. If you do so, you must admit that your viewpoints are a lot closer to the woman who didn't want her child going to the museum of natural history than those who claim that humans are descendant from apes.Again, that's ok, but that is not stereotyping, that is just natural grouping, and there's nothing wrong with placing people into groups. It would be impossible not to. If you didn't use groups to categorize people, there'd be no way to distinguish you from me, and we surely have different viewpoints (After all, you claim that "Atheists" are always bashing "Christians").Let's be serious though, is there some impending and immediate threat of violence against Christians, or some group of bills that will limit your natural rights that are being passed from Congress to the Presidents Desk to be signed into law? No.You diminish both Jim Crowe Laws and the Holocaust by making the comparison. Both of those events were about hatred and control, and you are experiencing neither of those.
reverantMay 26, 2009
What is the problem? They have a different belief and they don't like things they disagree with being presented as fact - when in fact, they are not. What is with the Christian bashing? This probably would have never even made it on the web if some islamic parent wrote a similar note.
gavinzacJun 9, 2009
Wait, so it's more embarrassing to believe the earth is 6000 years old than that an all powerful sky genie listens to you, judges you, and cares about you? Like Santa, but with no presents?
bigdavid351Jul 22, 2009
so, do you believe or not? If you do then who gives a s**t about what these idiot liberals think
gimcrackgeekSep 10, 2009
Dude, there's more than just two arguments here. >>1: Old Earth + Evolution, as you stated.2: Young Earth + Creation, as you also stated.3: Young Earth + Evolution, which nobody sane believes.But most notably, 4: Old Earth + Creation, which itself has many manifestations. This is what I believe in. I find young earth creation pretty hard to believe because it takes the bible literally word for word. How do you define a 'Day' before the sun and earth were created? Does 'day' mean 24 hours or five magicaljellybeanmonkeyunicornhornpenisjillion years?But of course, you must remember that I'm just a brainwashed, fundamentalist, bible thumping, homeschooled evil conservative abominable croniebuffoon, so how would I know? 8DAll I'm trying to highlight is that there is more than just the two views that you guys appear to be emphasizing.
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