Students to be taught there isn't a God

I had a similar education.
However, by saying that I was taught facts, I mean that I was not fed illusions at school, not was I stimulated to waste time on "illogical things".

 

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Yeh, I can tell.

 

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What the fuck is that supposed to mean?
I went to bible school and sang in the church choir!

 

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I mean, you lack...empathy. Or rather fail to practise it. I put it down to a lack of imagination.

 

Empathy is just a very primitive way of getting people to 'care' for each other in order for the tribe to be able to survive without people killing each other while they sleep. For a sufficiently enlightened person it is entirely unnecessary and potentially harmful because in our society we encounter far too many people to be able to empathise with all of the, hence the monkeysphere becomes a serious problem.

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I really don't care what the behaviourists say it is. To me its a person who hears a first hand account of a friend in a coma following an attempted suicide and does not say "Oh its natural selection at work".

 

That's not what I'm saying at all, it is beneficial to everyone for the comma patient to recover therefore it is moral to assist them.

 

No that is what Varda said to someone here.

It will be inetersting to see how they handle teaching the "humanism"

I predict though that some religious people will see this as an atheist attempt to convert or influence their children negatively and pull their children out of the schools/

Also, the educators might be interested in doing a study like this:

 

The "List of Countries by Human Development Index" would wholeheartedly refute you.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_Human_Development_Index

 

Look up structural adjustment policy.

 

A red herring. Nice work.

 

Not at all. A very secular exploitation of the masses. Also an apparent by product of atheism

http://www.gallup.com/poll/111013/Worldwide-Highly-Religious-More-Likely-Help-Others.aspx

 

Your gallup polls are insignificant when held up to actual facts.

 

If it doesn't matter which religion makes people give more or kill themselves less, then it proves the benefits are independent of wether that religion is true or not. This argument only supports religion as a convenient falsehood, a means of social maintenance, and a drugless anti-depressant.

 

Agreed. But then you go on to say:

And I disagree! That concept does NOT support anything that means religion is a "falsehood". It only means that it's as you said above ...that religion may or may not be true.

But as you've said above, if religion provides a benefit for society, then whether it's true or not is irrelevant. The benefits are real ....and that's all that really matters.

Baron Max

 

Yet you seem to be promoting a system whereby we program our children with an ideology. Greater imagination would be fostered via atheism than the entire pantheon of gods. One is a blank slate, the other is a paint-by-number.

You either don't understand what you are saying or you are being hypocritical. Which is it?

 

I go by the evidence. The evidence is that atheism is not compatible with imagination. What do you go by?

 

What if it is, and suicide is the result of comparing what is to what could be?