tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-544940998646597297.post2826265423446605296..comments2023-12-19T04:53:04.513-08:00Comments on Deeply Blasphemous: Science and SecularismAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13363174213866492800noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-544940998646597297.post-83588161649595863252007-06-08T13:36:00.000-07:002007-06-08T13:36:00.000-07:00Yona,Unsurprisingly, I consider that state vastly ...Yona,<BR/><BR/>Unsurprisingly, I consider that state vastly preferable to what we've got in 'Merica. ;)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13363174213866492800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-544940998646597297.post-63720567040680167912007-06-08T12:56:00.000-07:002007-06-08T12:56:00.000-07:00Denmark has the completely opposite approach. In t...Denmark has the completely opposite approach. In the 70s, the Hippie generation invaded all levels of education and started throwing their weight around. By the end of the decade, ’Christianity’ lessons in primary school were replaced with ’Religion’ (and Jehovahs Witnesses had to be exempt, otherwise they might accidentally learn something). Even in TV, children’s shows, overnight, became areligious to the degree that the traditional 24-part Christmas shows couldn’t mention Christmas, religion or even Santa Claus. The original activists have since lost their grasp of the media, but their hold on education is still pretty strong.Yonahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03677486215548247297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-544940998646597297.post-32045494279933094032007-06-08T00:35:00.000-07:002007-06-08T00:35:00.000-07:00L>T!Yay! Someone to post, hehe.I think that we've...L>T!<BR/><BR/>Yay! Someone to post, hehe.<BR/><BR/>I think that we've been TAUGHT to be afraid of history and the like by religious people. I think that they mounted an <I>extremely</I> insidious assault. Some of this verges on conspiracy theory, but it should (I think) be kept in mind that it is demonstrable today that the religious folks in America have actively and consciously shaped the science agenda according to their religious mythology.<BR/><BR/>But this is what I think: I think the common narrative is that leftie liberals destroyed basic liberal arts education in America because they wanted to teach inclusiveness, which means that you can't teach anything offensive, and everything that is a classic work is gonna offend SOMEONE. There is enough truth to that to make it seem plausible, but this is what I think caused the destruction of elementary liberal arts education in America: religion.<BR/><BR/>Take history, for example. History does not support the Biblical narrative of much of anything. If a person studies history side-by-side with the Bible, what comes out of it? That most Biblical people -- including Jesus and the 12 disciples -- have very little or no historical basis in fact, and that many of the purely historical events of the Bible (such as the census in Luke) are pure fabrication, and nonsensical in light of history. What Christian wants to come home and find their kids going, "The Bible is ahistorical"? Very few.<BR/><BR/>Same with critical thinking. Critically analyzing religion, especially as youths, must be discouraged because the regular findings of reason are contrary to religious belief. What parent wants to come home and find their children talking about the innumerable contradictions in the Bible?<BR/><BR/>Liberals might have wanted to change the curricula, but it was religious conservatives who insured that those changes were void of <I>content</I>.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13363174213866492800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-544940998646597297.post-3001648217076815122007-06-06T19:13:00.000-07:002007-06-06T19:13:00.000-07:00Hey Chris! (it's just me L>T :) I'm doing a blog f...Hey Chris! (it's just me L>T :) I'm doing a blog for some townspeople before I leave the burg, so I'm back temporary, as "concerned citizen".<BR/><BR/>Excellent post! (I really miss this stuff :(<BR/>I am realizing more & more that history is important to having a well rounded perspective on an issue.<BR/>This is one of the places we Godless heathens have an advantage. We aren't afraid of it. <BR/>Politics...well, I'm leary about jumping into that myself. How to approach it? Not emotionally, for sure. History is a good way to examine politics, also.<BR/>Mathematics makes my head hurt. But I struggle along like a girl.<BR/>Philosophy! Yeah!<BR/><BR/>You are right. It's more then science.concerned citizenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01935396158050893085noreply@blogger.com