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How could you teach children something that's based COMPLETELY and ENTIRELY on belief?
Beretta writes:
You mean like evolution?
The question is not whether or not an explanation is based on a personal belief, but is it true? An explanation may be both based on a personal belief and true. Personal beliefs are rarely based on nothing.Facts don't speak for themselves, they are interpreted within a framework.
I don' see Europe trying to cram a specific cult fringe Christian belief system down everyone's throat in the school system as in the US.
The simple fact is, the denial of reality in favor of the 'ignorance is bliss' interpretation of the Bible common with homegrown US cults such as Seventh Day Adventists, Pentecosts, and other assorted forms of US fringe Christianity, is not shared by nearly all Europeans, Japanese most other educated people even in third world nations. A minority of religious fanatics in the US are simply attempting to overthrow the Constitution and establish a dictatorship of Megachurch Mullahs.
It will never work anyway.
How can a person who denies radiometric decay flatly state such a position does not conflict with chemistry and physics except out of total fanatical ignorance.
How can a person think the US can drill for more oil to solve the energy crisis without the use of basic geologic principles that include an old earth and the evolution of various indicative fossils as a guide of where to drill? Doodlebugs and water witches are a bit difficult to use under several thousand feet of ocean.
How can any progress be made against disease when the central theory of biology is denied due to a minority position of religious fanatics who prefer mullahs to presidents and have such a proven record of extremely loose morals.
Naturally the proposed rule by sufficiently 'Christian' mullahs would exterminate the economy first, then the military.
I guess that in order to escape that inevitable fact one could emulate Mao as a model. He forced the entire population of China to undergo the Cultural Revolution where blind faith in the supreme mullah overrode all other considerations. Of course he did not allow his little red minions to interfere with the military, the nascent space program, or the petroleum industry. Thats strange, he proved he was as much a hypocrite as our fundies are.
So after Mao's Cultural Revolution along with the Great Leap Forward managed to exterminate some 40 to 60 million Chinese in the space of 15 years, I wonder if the fundies in the US consider that a record to be broken. After all, one of your own exposed at Pharyngula has called for the imprisonment and, something to replace normal sex in the perverted, namely torture, of all biologists in
CSA News.
CSA? isn't that acronym shared by pro-slavery traitors from US history?
Perhaps Europe has simply had enough of religious warfare and self-appointed authoritarians with a direct line to god, providence, or the supposedly inevitable Marxist revolution. It sure took long enough.
It would be nice if this nation could learn from them to fully see and reject exactly what the hate and fear cults promise, namely suffering and death in the here and now.
{ABE} Of course I am speaking as a US citizen. If you are an unrepentant Boer supporter of apartheid, which I suspect, anything I stated concerning the state of democracy in the US is likely completely beyond your comprehension.{/abe}
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Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider - Francis Bacon
The more we understand particular things, the more we understand God - Spinoza