Religion in public schools

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  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    dunkman1974 wrote:
    with the bible... it wouldnt matter if a parchment paper was found with Jesus' DNA on it... and a signed confession that he amde it all up and he was the first illusionist in history... you guys would still debunk it... your history is one that you'll never accept change to... thats the difference.

    i believe this is what you would do... you would dismiss new evidence so that your beliefs remain true... if it was all exposed as a ruse tomorrow... there would still be people who wouldnt accept that truth... i believe you and others like you on here would be those people





    science is hardly subjective is it!! religion doesnt teach me anything though... i'm interested in the history of the incas, the egyptians, the romans, 1st world war, scottish enlightenment, whatever it may be... even the era of jesus is historically interesting... i close my mind to the fish and loaves stories and the turning of water to wine, etc... as, yes, they are highly subjective and are a question of faith...

    you believe these things happened, yet you wont believe or accept that the world was created by an astral explosion and that man evolved from ape... and yet i'm hypocritical!!!?!?!?

    you are blocking any scientific discoveries completely out of your mind.. yet you believe in angels, the parting of great rivers, ressurections...

    cant you see how outlandish these theories are and why kids shouldnt be taught them... if we teach them about this crap then David Copperfield and David Blane become the new gods.... and thats a scary thought!!!


    You're attributing beliefs to me that I've never expressed in this thread or otherwise. I'm basing my comments about you on what you've said in this thread. Your mind is so closed to religion that you refuse to see that the issues you have with it also apply to the things you seemingly believe.

    I definitely do not block scientific discoveries from my mind. I believe that science explains religion and supports it, not that it disproves it.

    Your first statement about the signed DNA parchment is a good question. I do not know what I'd believe at that point. Of course, until that happens I won't have to make that choice.
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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    know1 wrote:
    You're attributing beliefs to me that I've never expressed in this thread or otherwise..

    no, no... they are my beliefs, my beliefs about what deeply religious people would do faced with compelling evidence....

    are you suggesting my beliefs are wrong, or somewhat non-legitimate.... hmmmm ;)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    dunkman1974 wrote:
    no, no... they are my beliefs, my beliefs about what deeply religious people would do faced with compelling evidence....

    are you suggesting my beliefs are wrong, or somewhat non-legitimate.... hmmmm ;)

    Nope, not wrong...just hypocritical.
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  • dunkman
    dunkman Posts: 19,646
    know1 wrote:
    Nope, not wrong...just hypocritical.

    ok... hypocritical because i believe the current facts that history has but refuse to believe stories of people turning to salt and such-like.... ok then that makes me hypocritical... i can handle that 'label'
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • know1
    know1 Posts: 6,801
    dunkman1974 wrote:
    ok... hypocritical because i believe the current facts that history has but refuse to believe stories of people turning to salt and such-like.... ok then that makes me hypocritical... i can handle that 'label'

    Not for that specific event or detail, but for your rational behind supporting your beliefs and dismissing others.
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    ...are those who've helped us.

    Right 'round the corner could be bigger than ourselves.

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