2007-10-22 13:26:05 · 14 answers · asked by Future 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think Yes, and it should be.
2007-10-22 13:30:44 · update #1
No. Any religious group can found their own schools. They are free to teach it. They just can't use tax dollars.
2007-10-22 13:51:50 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes
2007-10-22 13:31:15 · answer #2 · answered by sego lily 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Creation is still happening today everywhere in this evolving universe. Which does not deny that God is involved.
Only, his method is different from what the scriptures tell us.
6 days? But days did not yet exist!
Scriptures are full of symbolic tales and they were written for the comprehension of average people who lived >2000 years ago, then additions and bad translations are countless.
Their spiritual and social messages are always valid, but silly and useless conflicts arise from their literal interpretation.
2007-10-22 13:40:52 · answer #3 · answered by PragmaticAlien 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Definitely not. But it tends to be misrepresented by militant atheism, turned into a straw issue and smashed to bits by people who want to convince everyone that (even though nobody was there in the beginning and can't possibly have all the information) that God is a non-entity and Earth just "happened". This cancels out all sorts of fun and interesting discussion possiblities.
2007-10-22 13:31:29 · answer #4 · answered by Zazz 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The Christian church has done more than its share of persecution. Remember the Crusades? The Inquisitions?
Beieve or DIE?
So now, they are being persecuted because they believe some fairy tale about the earth being created in 6 days?
Good. Serves em right.
2007-10-22 13:32:49 · answer #5 · answered by Andrew 5 · 4⤊ 3⤋
What sorts of persecution are you suggesting creationists are suffering? Creationists are allowed to discuss this belief among themselves and in their churches. Creationists freely write letters to the editor of major newspapers.
The one place however that creationists have met a block is in public schools, where such a restriction is entirely appropriate. Since Creationism is a religious belief and not a testable, measurable, prediction-making science, it has no place within scientific curricula.
2007-10-22 13:32:21 · answer #6 · answered by kwxilvr 4 · 5⤊ 3⤋
If ignoring something is persecution, yes.
2007-10-22 13:31:49 · answer #7 · answered by neil s 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Is persecution being not taught in schools because it isn't science? That's silly. I think evolution is persecuted because the church says it isn't real. Now does that make sense?
2007-10-22 13:39:45 · answer #8 · answered by punch 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Is secularism being persecuted by creationists? It runs both ways pal.
2007-10-22 13:29:52 · answer #9 · answered by Helga G. Pataki 6 · 6⤊ 3⤋
Aw too bad we don't live in a secular society.
By the way, HUGE difference between *criticism* and *prosecution*.
Remember the Spanish inquisition? THAT was prosecution.
2007-10-22 13:30:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 4⤋