Are math and science the tools of the Devil?

Question

I'm a concerned christian father, and a few months ago, my teenage son told me that he wanted to be a scientist. He tells me that he's an atheist, and after a battery of punishments started by his unillingness to go to church on Sunday, I figured out that it must have all started with science class at school. Over the past few weeks, I combed through his science and math textbooks, internet history, and the various books that he checked out of the library, and I have found out that much of what is out there is witchcraft, plain and simple. Of course, he realized that I was peeking through his material, and he just had a fit with me. That day, I called the cops and he was arrested for trying to run away. He called me a stupid hillbilly beforehand, and a "fundie", whatever that means. Is science a tool of the devil? Will military or training school help put him on the right path? Should I take him out of school and homeschool him? Please help, his soul is on the line.

Answer 1

Science and math are evidence of the greatness of God, not the opposite. They are a window into the incredible wonders of everything God created. I compare all knowledge to a large room, and what any one preson can know is like a few grains of sand in a corner of the room. God created all, and knows all.

"Coming To Peace With Science" by Darrel Falk, is a beautiful book to learn and understand more about both science and the Bible.

As for your unbelieving son, try making him read with you, "The Case For Christ". Reading through all the actual tortures of the crucifixion, and really understanding then will change both of you for the better.

Some fundamentalists have been convinced science and knowledge are against God. Not true. For me, they help present the immensity of God's Universe, and his Power.

Increase your knowledge, and be closer and more appreciative of God, and how small we are yet still rewarded to live and know Him.

Answer 2

NO. That is a crazy statement! In the first place you shouldn't have given him a "battery of punishments" for being unwilling to attend church. That in itself probably drove him further away! What does witchcraft have to do with science, math, and internet history books? You just need to CHILL OUT. I know it will be hard. You are stressing out that your son is going to follow the wrong path but he is in the inbetween stage of being a child and a man. He wants to make his own decisions. If you force him into military or training school he may never want anything to do with you ever again. I would leave him in school. Keep trying to steer him toward what you believe is the right path, but don't overwhelm him and don't try to think for him. You have to allow him his questions. It's human nature. I'm sure you had a period in your life where you were less than perfect in your standards today. I am an atheist as well, but if there is a god he/she would have to have a way to make things, a similar pattern. This is what humans like to study and call science. Humans are trying to find the clockwork of all that is surrounding us. There is nothing devilish about curiosity. Everyone has it! Why math? I would really like that explained to me.

Answer 3

Welcome to the 21st Century, now set your time machine and transport yourself BACK to the Stone Age.
FYI math is NEEDED to be able to get thru life and because of Science you have things like Medicine, the Internet, Movies and so forth. Your son has chosen a very NOBLE profession.
I homeschool and would usually recommend it in a heartbeat, but YOU have no business attempting to homeschool----we DON'T need another Adolf Hitler in the world.

FYI Science has NO connection to Witchcraft...when people say they are going to make a little magic they are not being LITERAL.
I am not sure what scares me more....you CLAIMING to be a Christian or you homeschooling.
It is people like YOU who give homeschoolers a bad name. Perhaps you should worry more about YOUR soul (God's gonna have a FIELD DAY with you) and leave your son ALONE.

Answer 4

Oh Gosh I feel for your situation. I would like to say I had some really good advice but all I know is that I think God gives us knowledge and technology. I to make our lives better. I think He inspires scientists. I mean, medicine is science. I also know that Satan can corrupt anything and he can take the most wonderful and beautiful things Heavenly Father gives usand turn around and use them agaisnt us. The best example I can think of is the gift of sexual intimacy between a husband and wife. God gave that gift to man to procreate and promote intimacy and love in marriage. Look how the great deceiver has manipulated and violated that sacred blessing! I don't believe science is the enemy. In fact there are several Biology instructors at the college I go to and they are Christians. One even says in class that there is no dispute between science and religion if every one could see that anatomy and biochemistry are all part of the mind of GOD. He says, it's too perfect to be accident. As for homeschooling I don't know, you'll have to pray about that, but at some homeschooling booksores there are christian based science curriculums and additional texts and supplements, that teach science through the eyes of believers. There is a really neat book too that's titled(if I remember right) Somebody's making A Monkey Out Of You
I can't remember the author, but my daughter really enjoyed it. i apologize for rambling on, but just one more thing...A lady at church's son married an atheist. He remained active in his church and she never went or anything. They've been married several years and she's about 40 years I assume. But she was baptized recently and I don't know the whole story, but anyway there is hope. I wish I could be of some help but I really can only offer support and prayers for you and your family. Sending one up as soon as I hit submit in fact...

Answer 5

Love, Hate, and all human emotions are the only tools of the Devil. The Devil feeds our confusion with hate, blackmails our judgment by perverting love, and entices us or drives us apart with our other emotions.
Without science, we would not know the Devil from God. Without math, we would not know the difference between virtue and sin. The world is our gift and our challenge.
Any son who would fight his father for his beliefs is already a soldier. Miltary school would just prove to him you gave up on being a parent.
You know nothing of Witchcraft, and that probably must remain so. To know evil is to be evil. Do not speak of what is or is not of that which is only a shadow in the night to you.
Science requires objectivity and rejects knowledge that comes from faith. Yet without faith in that rule, science itself would lose all meaning.
We each have a lifetime to redeem our soul, and we have a world to explore. The path can be shown to us, and followed by us, but not tied to us. You must have faith that the man will find his soul in time through your guidance.
The lurking evil that is devouring many of his generation, and others, is based in "blind faith" as demanded by men who seek to enslave us. Only by developing a strong faith in himself can he hope to resist such evil.
No man will long follow a leader who confronts him and walks backwards on his path. A father must stand behind his son and be worthy of that trusted position.
Continue asking your son, his teachers, yourself, and others what he needs to become a person you will be proud to send into the world. And reflect on the dubious practice of telling your prayer to a glowing plastic box and expecting and getting an answer that might be suitable to the Church. A few decades ago, you and it might have been stoned.

Answer 6

For the math part i would like to think so, i Math almost drove me completely insane becuase ive had such a hard time with it, theres just stuff that we shouldn't even be wasting our time with.

he has to learn too on his own if you want him to be a believer, maybe not a christian but you can't force him, although if hes practicing witchcraft, its better he doesnt do it in the house, the boy has problems he should go to bootcamp, youre right his Soul is on the line.

i say the only safests smartest thing to do right now is PRAY for your son, maybe SOMETHING will change him to go in the right direction, you can always pray for anything

Answer 7

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Dad, can we go fishing? I also want to go camping at least once this summer as a family and by the way I would like to get involved with doing something new and exciting but I just can't put my finger on it ; |

Hellllooooo dad R you hearing me?
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Ya know, I really feel horrible when you disrespect me. I am your father and will always be your father. I don't like seeing you so confused....let's do something positive to change this situation right now : )

Answer 8

if u send him to military school he'll get back at you by going to war. science is what makes sense of many of the things in the world. im not saying gods a fake (i go to catholic school) im just saying that you should trust your son to have his on choices. plus there a only a handful true atheist in the world. most ppl just say they are so they dont have to believe in anything

Answer 9

Wow, you will possibly desire to loosen up slightly and help your newborn in even if he desires to do. I even have actually no longer something against faith or religious human beings, you've gotten faith something you elect for to have faith, yet in basic terms be open-minded approximately it. in basic terms when you consider which you think one way does not propose each and every person else in the worldwide is going to have faith the comparable concern you do. i'm in between what i think, yet I do have faith that there is an enhanced being. i think that persons could have faith something that they choose for to, in basic terms don't be the style that push it onto others. that's what bothers me. Atheists and Agnostics do no longer flow around door-to-door telling you to no longer have faith, why do people who do have faith might desire to flow around pushing others into believing? i think of you will possibly desire to easily save an open suggestions approximately your son and what he desires to do together with his existence. Him eager to be a scientist does no longer make him the devil, or isn't the artwork of the devil the two. it is in basic terms a be counted of what he believes in. help your son.

Answer 10

no they arent tools of the devil im actually catholic and im trying to become a nuclear physisist(close enough) and most my science teachers are christians and really religious

i say try talking to him or an exercisim but i doubt that will help
try to get him to convert back to christianity and if he does support him in becoming a scientist

and if that dont work the only other idea i have is disown him from your will