I am shocked?

Question

I am shocked. Just to make it clear.

Just when I had built up my confidence about humanity's intelligence... I find out that in fact a lot of people actually *believe* beyond a reasonable doubt that the bible's genesis is how the world was created.
Not to mention there are half a dozen other theories strongly believed, discarding everything else.

[Insert blank shocked face here]

Another thing I've noticed is that a load of those people either are home schooled or have been to a strict religious school. Joining with that, I have noticed that their attitude towards other ideas is - to say the least - narrow minded, whereas many of the public schooled people - catholic or otherwise - is much more open, still keeping their own beliefs.

I've always liked home schooling as opposed to public schooling, and there are a lot of good things to come from it... but certainly this does make a strong vote against home schooling.

Doesn't it?

PS; I myself am a Pagan, and not an Atheist. Just to make that clear.

You obviously don't get my point, primoa.

Home schooling causes parents to teach their children what *they* know - more often than not, not the entire truth. Their children, trusting their parents, accept it as the truth and that causes for not only the Bible's genesis to be accepted as true, but many other things that aren't true - things that deny your genesis as true, or even different genesis theories -, to be accepted as such. Causing a whole new generation to have half a dozen different theories about the beginning of everything, none of them proven to be true.

That isn't what education is supposed to do. That is, in fact, the complete opposite.

Acid - to be perfectly honest; the CHRISTIAN definition of Pagan is everyone who is not Christian...

LOL Pope - guess I'll have to go to my old state of being cynical and calling all human beings eejits. That's what I get for putting faith in something...

Ironic, isn't it?

I would prefer my children to learn *everything* - even the things I myself don't believe in it, just for the sake of their knowing that the idea of it at least exists. And what they do with it then, is their business.

I don't believe in censorship.

Red Dragon - at least you're not trying to convince me that Allah created everything, which I respect more than people who try to convince others that God created all and that evolution is s|-|ite - for the oddest of reasons, and I'm actually referring to a question I've answered yesterday, by a girl who was home schooled.

I myself believe that none of us can possibly be 100% certain that any of the theories are correct - since none of us were there when it happened - but so far, the evolution theory seems the most realistic and plausible one.

Oh my god, restless, that's unbelievable!

... but at the same time interesting. Why would they still think that?

Thanks for the information, by the way.

Doesn't take more faith, just takes more brain capacity.

But to each their own. Many of the early settlers would have been home schooled, I would say - and explain to me how someone home schooled, who doesn't even know how prizms work, can excel when they graduate. *or* compare human behaviour to that of cats and dogs...

Something tells me they definitely won't be going to do physics in college...

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Answer 1

I would guess that for some reason you are shocked. Why are you shocked? I don't see why it should matter what other people think or say as long as they aren't hurting you.

Answer 2

Shocked? Hmm, don't be... If you think this kind of belief is absurd, then check this out: The Flat-Earth Society -- an organization set on proving the falsehood and utter error in the fact that the Earth is quasispherical. It's common knowledge and common sense: The Earth is FLAT !!! ;-)
These types of manifestation go beyond what I would call understandable stupidity... I simply cannot understand how someone could cling so fiercely on a belief that should have been extinct centuries ago.

Answer 3

I think people view the bible as a factual book when it is more a book of philosophy. I think people neglect to remember that it was written from dreams and handed down info 100 years after the death of christ. 2000 years ago their vocabulary was not as vast and defining as present day. As for the theory of Genesis- in 1000 years if the world is still around we will have new technology and probably a new revelation concerning the god archetype. I think the basic message is to make decisions that take into effect other people's feelings and try to be a considerate person. I dont think their is an actual God but i cant prove that as much as people who belive their is can prove their belief's. As long as you are a good person, i think that is all that matters.

Answer 4

Sweetheart, I'm in the same boat. At the moment, I could say that I'm more Agnostic than anything else (I've been in a transitional point of my life, though I am doing lots of study into Wicca because I think my beliefs are most similiar to those of Wicca) and I've been called out on many occasion as being weird because I'm not narrow minded.

I think that some die hard Christians are truly respectable (If Laura of Lufkin reads this, yes hun, I'm talking about you) But then there are the jerks who have their noses stuffed so far into a contradictory BOOK that they have nothing better to do than rag on people who are different. And just to be civilized, I will only say that they need to get a life.

Answer 5

We figure out by the time we are by the latest 8-10 years of age that Santa Claus doesn't exist, and that the tooth fairy doesnt, and the easter bunny, but why do people stilll believe in god? God is something that someone creates in order to help explain the unknown or give them hope, often harmless, but sometimes harmful depending on how religion is used. For the closed minded thing, some people say they go to church etc but often don't follow the values of that religion or become so obsorbed in it that they can't understand thinking anything else.

Answer 6

i went to an ordinary school with no religious connections, however i would tend to agre with you that religious schools tend to educate children more along the religious way than maye a public school.
Howevr if yur choice is that your child learns at home and you have the time then that is a good choice because th can learn about things that happen and why from your life expereinces and that is a good thing

Answer 7

Hmm, I'm not shocked at all. People in general are rather stupid. Most people believe because that's what they were taught.
Personally I'm not much in favour of home schooling. I think children need interaction with other children and other authority figures. One can always research different schools before sending your child there, making sure that the school doesn't for instance teach creationism if that is not what you yourself believe. On the other hand, I believe children should be exposed to different belief systems and ways of thinking. If you "force" your child to be a paga/atheist etc., then you're no better than the christians/muslims etc. who indoctrinate their children from birth.

Answer 8

It takes a lot more faith to believe we evolved, than to believe God created us! Did you know that home schooled kids excel when they graduate? They often are qualified for the finest schools in our nation. Did you know that Abe Lincoln was home schooled? Did you know the Bible was a textbook in early American schools?

Answer 9

Well, to be perfectly honest the defination of Pagen is anything that is NOT Christian.... so Athiests are pagens as well. Second, everyone has to have faith in something. I believe I have a brain in my skull, even though I have not seen it. I have never touched it, and I have never heard it. I have seen pictures of it, but that could be pictures of anyones brain. The same thing can be said about all of your organs. Just because you cannot prove something is real doesn't mean it isn't real. Let people believe what they want.

Jer.

Answer 10

Yes... sometimes it can come as a surprise to realise just how incredibly retarded the larger portion of humanity actually is..... and how they believe things that are so utterly ridiculous that it is beyond comprehension.

But since I went through that during my childhood I'm fairly used to it now..... and have even learned precisely how they are so incredibly stupid...

... And that is because such distractions are needed to keep them consciously occupied and stop them going down mental pathways that would lead invariably to violation of the biological imperitive.

Answer 11

Yup.
Nothing like brainwashing kids at an early age to make them believe the most ridiculous things.
There are people out there that ACTUALLY believe that dinosaur fossils were left by 'satan' in order to steer people away from god.
Yes, the will-full ignorance of the masses can be truly staggering.