Since the Age of Atheism is growing-Do you think Children are becoming Confused, Warpped and Cold?

Question

Today on the news I hear dof a Middle School Child who was sent to detention because she gave someone a hug?

Another High School voted the *Cutest Couples* in the yearbook as two lesbian girls

California Schools-Sigh :( say it is discriminating to say you have a
Mom and Dad have to recognize people who have a Mom and a Mom, a Dad and a Dad a Dad a Horse and 2 Moms..

Kids see teachers all over the country who want to make Bootie calls with students or School aged girls wanting plastic surgery implants, or post provocative pic's of themselves on my-space

What do you think today's schools are teaching Kids?

Answer 1

Gosh, my confused, warped, cold atheist heathen children bring home abandoned baby birds to nurse. I'll have to deal with that, and make sure they start hating gays and the kid at school with the horse for a mother.

Answer 2

I don't know the circumstances of the girl who was sent to detention for giving a hug, but it's not unusual to restrict personal contact between students. Would you object if a boy was going around hugging girls?

Who says lesbians can't make a cute couple? You realize they are a couple, right? Why should something as silly as a "cutest couple" contest be restricted only to heterosexual couples?

You realize there are homosexual couples with children, right? Well there are whether you like it or not. Since this is a *fact*, it's not unreasonable to refer to "parents" rather than "mother and father".

Adult/minor sexual contact is not a good thing, however this has nothing to do with the state of atheism in the US. (Just ask the victims of priests.) I think you would find this sort of thing has always happened to some degree or another throughout history.

The provocative nature of young adults and children is a bit upsetting, but this is nothing new either and it has absolutely nothing to do with atheism. Sex has always sold. Society has become progressively more permissive. It's a fact that every single generation has decried the behavior of the generation younger than them. Remember that demon rock and roll music of the 50s? How about those scandalous skirts that allowed ankles to be visible in the 30s?

So schools are to blame for all of the progressive liberalization going on? Just a paragraph ago you were blaming schools for being too conservative. Believe it or not, schools are social environments. What happens in them is not always school policy; it's what happens when you get a bunch of competitive, developing people in close quarters with one another.

Answer 3

The child was sent to detention for giving someone a hug? That is a bit excessive. Are you SURE there isn't more to that story.


Why does it bother you if a lesbian couple was voted the cutest couple? Do you hate lesbians or something?


How do you intend to treat the five million households of children who have same-sex parents? How should the children of those parents be treated in your opinion? Should they be made to feel included and accepted or ridiculed and excluded?

How does your Christian bible say we are to treat others, even those you may consider your, "enemy"?

Why would you have a problem with the school wanting children who have two dads or two moms to be included and accepted? Unless you prefer the school to tell those children their parents are evil perverts and they are less than children from tradtional homes.

And last but not least, teachers who make bootie calls with students should be strung up. It is not right.

Answer 4

Why is any of this atheistic? There are Christian lesbians, their are Christian homosexuals with children, these teachers are making decisions to molest children and that's wrong from anyone's point of view, and why aren't the parents monitoring their children online and why are parents buying into the child's low self-esteem? The middle schooler was probably breaking a rule in the school about contact. If that middle schooler was making out with someone you'd want them suspended I have a feeling.
No. No big atheist conspiracy. Ted Haggard was a shining example of Christianity, wasn't he? Schools are doing their best to provide children with education but they are not the parents of the children. The biggest complaint I hear from teachers: "I'm not their parent and the parent acts like I'm supposed to be. That's their job not mine."

Answer 5

You can't blame Atheism for these things. The history of abuses and questionable behavior in societies controlled by religions is at least as bad as anything you've mentioned. I personally do have a problem with teachers making bootie calls on students, but that has nothing to do with Atheism. That sort of thing has happened in churches.

Answer 6

No no, you can't blame everything on us atheists. Mathematically, it's just silly. We are in the minority, as we are so often told. How could we possibly have such a huge effect?

It's the fault of the average church-going American family with two working parents. It's all about money money money to them. Mentally and physically, and yes, spiritually exhausted, they work ten hour days so they can buy new cars, cell phones, clothes, cruises and pay huge mortgages, leaving their greedy kids unsupervised until they get home at 6 pm with Jack in the Crack. Then on Sunday they go to church and get preached about hell and damnation and how the atheists and homosexuals are ruining the country. They put some of that hard-earned cash in the collection basket, and continue on with their unfulfilled lives.

(As to what I think of the schools.. I think they are utter crap. I think, however, that they are *too* conservative. A bunch of fuddy-duddies too stuck in their old ways to move forward and embrace change. So, I homeschool.)

Answer 7

It is up to the parents to teach their child right from wrong. You are just giving into this over-reaction of a few silly people out there.

So what you are saying in a silly way is that because of Atheism all these problems are happening in society? Is that it?

Maybe you need to read a book on the principals of sociology.

Answer 8

Teaching morality is not the job of the education system, it's the job of the parents.

Our basic attitudes regarding what is right and wrong is set into place by the time we are 4, before we attend school.

Maybe a more appropriate question would be "what are we teaching our own children?"

Answer 9

Yes, the Age of Atheism is a horrible thing. Children growing up afraid and ashamed of their own bodies and feelings, taught to hate others simply because they're different, physically and emotionally abused by parents and people that are supposed to watch over them, told again and again that death is better than life... What a sorry state of affairs!

Oh, sorry, those are effects of the Age of Christianity...

Answer 10

First demonstrate that all of the people involved above were atheists

I'll not hold my breath seeing as how atheists are a minority

Also I find your prejudice against homosexual couples rather sickening.

if being religious means hating those who are different then I'd rather be an atheist