[ SECRET POST #2301 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2301 ⌋

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Comments

[truxillogical]

Doubt, for me, is a really important part of faith - it's a bit like pruning a plant as it grows.

That is a truly beautiful way of putting it.

And you're exactly right. It's important to question your beliefs, be they secular or spiritual. People need to question their perceptions of how the world works, even if they don't come to a new an earth-shattering conclusion afterwards. That's how humanity moves forward, after all. "When I was a child, I thought as a child" and all that.

I really do hate the black-and-white Science vs Religion thing that gets going on. Like, "Science put a guy on the moon; religion blew up a building!" (And religion opened shelters and soup kitchens; science invented the atom bomb.) People are people, and as satisfying as a tribal "us versus them" mentality is, it just makes things worse. (And for the record, I went to a Catholic school and they taught us evolution. Never even realized there were people who thought those things should contradict until I was way older.)

[(Anonymous)]

wow, they taught you evolution in catholic school?!

mind=blown

in hindisght, i realize that i went to a pretty fundamentalist school, that taught creationism. (i remember having an argument with my bible studies teacher, who kept insisting people were walking around with dinosaurs 4000 years ago... good times!)

[(Anonymous)]

It depends on country as well - the US is the only Western country where it's an "accepted scientific truth" - in the UK any Catholic school receiving any state funding (most do) CAN'T teach creationism as anything other than a religious belief, and evolution will be on the national curriculum.

[truxillogical]

Yeah, I mean, I remember learning the creation story as well, but not being taught anything about Flintstone-topia. Actually, I remember at some point in either religion class or social studies, learning a brief bit about Islam, and learning about burkas and stuff made very-young me furious, and I said something like, "That's stupid!" and wound up getting an in-class lecture about respecting other people's religions and culture. Go figure.


Of course, that same school has recently implemented an official "morality clause" meaning they can fire teachers for being gay or taking birth control, last I heard, so...yeah.