Is the whole christian thing(K) the dumbing down america?

Question

Disguising of evangelicalism as creationism.
Indoctrination like in Jesus Camp.
Its absolutely scary what America is becoming from the inside out
fundamentally speaking of course.

Answer 1

"the constitutional separation of church and state" There's a good marketing slogan for you – proof that if you repeat something enough times, people will believe it. Listen, I have a $10,000 reward for anyone who can find the word "separation" or "church" or "state" in the first Amendment.
The press, in particular, repeat this phrase like a hypnotic mantra. Can't you just hear it? "Attorneys for the ACLU, citing the constitutional separation of church and state, today announced they were suing God" – or whatever. Marketers pay millions to brand their product or political candidate like this phrase.
This is another sneaky manipulation of words. (that people like you just eat up) For 150 years after the Bill of Rights, the First Amendment phrasing about an "establishment of religion" meant the federal government would not impose a national church, a particular denomination, on the states. Today, we're made to feel that just whispering something about God, the Bible, the Ten Commandments or, Heaven forbid, praying on public property, constitutes an illegal "establishment of religion."


Do you remember, right after Sept. 11, 2001, a California public school erected a banner that simply said "God Bless America," to honor those killed in the 9-11 terror attacks? That banner was immediately attacked by the ACLU as an unconstitutional establishment of religion. Does anyone – anyone at all – really believe the founders intended this?

Tell me again who is dumbing down America.

Answer 2

People who speak before they know what they are talking about are part of the problem.

Not all Christians are Evangelists. All Evangelists are Christian. Not all Evangelists and Christians are a part of Jesus Camp, nor do they want to be.

There is no Evangelical creationism conspiracy. Part of the Good News Evangelists share is that God is our Creator, and He created everything. It's all open, not at all hidden and does not rule out science.

You'll find this quote in Wikipedia - "You can learn as much about the Catholic Church from Nacho Libre as you can learn about evangelicalism from Jesus Camp. (Michael Moore had his hand in this movie. It's like using Bugs Bunny's directions to reach New Mexico instead of Map Quest)

Evangelism - the preaching or promulgation of the gospel; the work of an evangelist.
missionary zeal, purpose, or activity.

Christian - of, pertaining to, or derived from Jesus Christ or His teachings: a Christian faith.

Creationism - the doctrine that matter and all things were created by an omnipotent Creator. (it doesn't necessarily say the Big Bang theory is wrong, it says Who do you think made the bang!)

It seems that you are trying to understand a complicated belief by mixing all you've heard in one big bowl rather than taking the time to research and find your own truth. That's the easy way to get an immediate, yet temporary answer. If you want something substantial and worthwhile, you'll have to do some work to find truth.

Maybe you could start by reading Antony Flew's book, published recently. He was a huge atheist, Oxford scholar, pure Darwin, adament that there was no Creative Being behind us. There is a link to the article below - "Flew has emphasized that his “discovery” of a god who created life was a result of relentlessly “following the evidence”. “It was empirical evidence,” he told an interviewer, “the evidence uncovered by the sciences. But it was a philosophical inference drawn from the evidence.”

Answer 3

I am all for a government that has religion. I am worried that God is not getting it right or politicians are not listening either way ther is no accountability here. The politicians are just going to have to step up here because they are the only ones talking about who is or is not listening. Probably we need to just leave God out of it because it is law that we keep our politicians accountable for listening to every one all the time.

Answer 4

Christianity has become a private concern, a rescue squad to revive those crippled in free enterprise combat. It has taken on the functions of therapy and self-help, preaching its own version of self-centeredness that leaves political matters such as “justice” far behind. Religion hasn’t been booted out of the public arena by mean-spirited secularists; it has largely quit going out in public to bring the full message of its heritage.

The priorities of the religious right are in fact more cultural than religious. Take this lobby’s strong support of capital punishment. It received supporting arguments from religion, but it is grounded in patterns of social control that includes racist lynching and vigilantism. It is deeply cultural, coming from a long tradition of southern militarism and frontier justice.

The religious right, to the extent that it is political, is merely a creature of the political right itself rather than a movement that gave rise to the right. As an appendage and supplicant, it has been used and abused by the political right wing in its quest for power. For all the ballyhoo over its alleged power, most evident in Pat Robertson’s Christian Coalition or Jerry Falwell’s earlier Moral Majority, such campaigns have been confined to those issues on which it already finds consensus with the larger secular conservative movement, such as its opposition to gay rights.

Answer 5

Read Margret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale and consider emigration while you can.
I know that is an exageration but America seems to be slipping into the hands of its own Taliban.
Oh! dear. Quinn22 please check your facts. Einstein was a non practising Jew and Michaeal Angelo was gay great examples of Christian intellectuals..

Answer 6

Have you thought this thru? Most psychologists recognize the need for a balance in the physical, emotional, and spiritual. They don't specify the faith when setting the equation. I have trouble trusting anyone who doesn't believe in something greater than themselves. Be that druid, Jew, Muslim or christian, whatever. It lends itself to megalomania and self absorption to think we are simply millions of little islands floating in a finite sea of fixed time.

Are you aware of the diversity of Christianity? Catholics, Lutherans, baptists, Protestant, Quakers, christian scientists, etc?

I don't know what you are referring to when you speak of camp Jesus. But if you think that religion is something that lowers the intellectual capabilities you seem to forget those who count themselves as Christians in the hierarchy of scientific accomplishment. From Einstein to Michael Angelo.

Answer 7

Well since the majority of America's founders were all Christians I don't see your point. And since America has been a majority Christian country for the last 200 plus years what is different about Christians today that is so harmful?

What would America be like if there were no Christians here? North Korea and China are like that why is that thinking better?

And considering that Christian home schooled kids score markedly higher on all scholastic aptitude tests maybe we need to ask is the atheist state the dumbing down America?

Answer 8

Radical religion is scary, no matter what the religion. Personally, I'd be very happy if the majority of the people in this country (and the world) converted to buddhism.

Answer 9

That's the media in general........I mean just for example all the publicity of Anna Nicole's baby!The one judge weeping on the bench.................I wonder if he actually got his own show for making a fool of himself!
After all aren't judges supposed to remain impartial?

Answer 10

Actually it's big government programs and the public school system that is dumbing down Americans...
Anything our government controls turns to sh it...Thats why it boggles my mind the left want our government controlling every aspect of their lives.