What happens when you teach children that they are just a bunch of advanced monkeys that have no ultimate purpose, and will just go back into the "cosmic soup" when they die? Do you really think that the betterment of society for future generation is a priority for the MAJORITY of teenagers? Get real. The rates of suicide, depression, murder, abortion, violence, drug use, divorce, and immorality skyrocket thanks to the promotion of the BIG LIE!
2006-08-22 03:26:44 · 16 answers · asked by Preacher 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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thanks for proving how dumb the religious extremists are.
2006-08-22 03:35:52 · answer #1 · answered by Southpaw 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What is wrong with a Christian believing in Evolution? Christians used to think that the Earth was the center of the universe and that all planets revolved around it. To tell people the truth was considered blasphemy. Look at history. You are ranting and raving against science. Why? As human society advances, we learn more about how the world works. Most other aspects of science you do not deny, so why deny evolution?
I am a Christian and I believe that evolution is real. The sooner Christians accept evolution (or at least are not offended by it), the sooner we can start debating issues that really matter, such as living the way Christ asked us to live, helping the poor and giving to others, so that we can help curb violence, depression, suicide, divorce, unnecessary abortions, etc.
2006-08-22 10:44:42 · answer #2 · answered by HeatherRD 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are talking about Darwin's theory of evolution, it might behoove you to read his work before you say much more about monkeys. A question for you to consider is what does evolutionary theory have to do with the betterment of society or with the problems you see facing teenagers today? I doubt that a scientific theory has much effect one way or another on an individual's reaction to specific or overall social problems.
Consider Alexander Pope's
"A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;
For shallow Drafts intoxicate the brain
But drinking deeply sobers it again."
2006-08-22 10:42:13 · answer #3 · answered by expatturk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The thing that gets me is that religious people think that people aren't inclined to be moral, upstanding citizens unless properly motivated by the threat of hellfire and the ever watching eye of a ficticious diety. I consider myself a very moral person, and one with generous humanitarian gestures, as is evident by those who work with me and know me as a friend.
Religion was born out of the unknown, an answer fabricated for all that which was not answerable when less science was known and available. It tends to be hateful toward those who do not believe blindly the same ideas that it proposes, because that's the only way it can justify itself.
Wake up.
2006-08-22 10:41:32 · answer #4 · answered by ●Gardener● 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you equate the theory of evolution to "advanced monkeys," then you have a limited view of both the theory and the Bible.
If you think that teaching evolution leads to all those social ills, you are sadly midsdirected. Perhaps identifying the crass consumerism and sexualism that is American culture is far important to solving those issues than evolution in the schools.
2006-08-22 10:34:55 · answer #5 · answered by kingstubborn 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
And so what you are saying is that suicide, depression, murder, etc. are only committed by people who have been taught the Theory of Evolution? And are you saying that god-believers never commit suicide, have depression, murder anyone (How about Andrea Yates?!?) etc.? Talk about a BIG LIE!
2006-08-22 13:00:35 · answer #6 · answered by irenaadler 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would not assume that you are that advanced for a monkey.
News flash...
If it was up to people who believed as you do we would never have come down from the trees in the first place.
Do not fear progression, the truth - whatever it may be - will make the world a better place in the end.
2006-08-22 10:35:54 · answer #7 · answered by Warrior Hamster 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Sir, I hung out with a bunch of youth group kids when I was in school. Why? Because they were the ones with the drugs, and were the most promiscuous. Our origins have nothing to do with rebellion, and it tends to come hardest where the rules are the strictest.
2006-08-22 10:33:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I agree!
The BIG LIE has caused so much war, hate, murders, lynch-mobs, burnings of people for having warts, fear, hypocrisy, bigotry, poverty, orphans, sickness, death, homelessness, pain, suffering, isolation, cruelty, satanism, ostracism...you ARE talking about christianity, right?
2006-08-22 10:38:13 · answer #9 · answered by googlywotsit 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wow somebody got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning
2006-08-22 10:33:25 · answer #10 · answered by delmonticoman 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
This is just plain ranting. You can't support your religious beliefs, and you apparently can't even think clearly about them. You are the problem.
2006-08-22 10:37:12 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋