You Gotta See This...4th Grade "Science" Test

You're getting too sciencey for them now.

 

LOL

 

...but they were so so close to getting something other than "Name" and "Date" right...

 

I wonder how people who were raised this way feel if they are lucky enough to escape the culture that wallows in this crap and discover the real world. The realization of what they were deprived of while growing up much be horrible.

 

I know of some people who got out of some religious groups. To do so (for them) is to be shunned. The feeling I got from them is one of being left alone frightened and insecure about everything. I feel so sorry for them, even though they're lucky to have escaped. That isn't always the case though. Many never look back, and are happy as can be. So there's a range of reactions.

 

I think I'm really lucky that I grew up in a pretty religion-free family. I've seen people horribly messed up by "faith". Few things are sadder than a gay Catholic who takes the Church seriously. And the test in the OP is the sickest thing I've seen in a long time. It would be interesting to show it to friends in Japan.

 

more appropriately, acolytes.

 

“One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody—not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms—had the smallest idea what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge (as well as for comfort, reassurance and other infantile needs).

Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion, and one would like to think—though the connection is not a fully demonstrable one—that this is why they seem so uninterested in sending fellow humans to hell.”

 

There have always been these types of groups in every society. The problem is that they sometimes grab at the reins of power in their society and try to drive it off a cliff in a quixotic fervor that they have deluded themselves into believing. Tilting at windmills is just fine for the single individual but is dangerous when you get a bunch of them together.

 

My wife, who is religious, asked my not long ago why we never heard of these silly things like a "young earth" and dinosaurs living with people when we were kids. I believe it's a last gasp, as evidence shows religion is on an all-time decline. I believe the numbers were around 40% decline in the last 40 years. Thats astronomical. So, in an attempt to cling to what they have left, they've decided to brainwash the least resistant segment of the population...children, to their way of thinking. It's scary. It's leaning toward theocracy. It's racing towards religious extremism. It is, indeed, a cult.

 

Why does "liberalism" keep coming to mind as I read this post?

 

Answer: You don't have a very intelligent mind.

 

Oops...just what I was referring to...

 

It really has to do with the re-energized creationism movement in the 1960's and then the exact same thing packed as intelligent design in 2005. It went something like this...

"Creation science" could no longer be taught in public schools, and in drafts of the creation science school textbook Of Pandas and People all references to creation or creationism were changed to refer to intelligent design. Proponents of the intelligent design movement organized widespread campaigning to considerable effect. They officially denied any links to creation or religion, and claimed that "creationism" only referred to young Earth creationism with flood geology; but in Kitzmiller v. Dover the court found intelligent design to be religious, and unable to dissociate itself from its creationist roots, as part of the ruling that teaching intelligent design in public school science classes was unconstitutional.

 

This is highly contentious within the Muslim community, maybe even here, but Islam is far worse at this point in time than Christianity is regarding governments.

The reason being that rabid belief is more prevalent within Islam than it is in Christianity. Today, there are numerous nations that are religiously dominated, and America probably doesn't even crack the top 20 of 'em.

It's so bad with some societies that even writing this could get me killed...Now THAT is a "circle-jerk" of epic proportions.

Yeah, America isn't that bad considering the above.

 

What people in America appear to be working toward is to be governed by a common belief, one that may have belief-elements to it, but not to the point that it is dictated to by religion. That's not worded very well, but the point is that people appear to be getting tired of being told to live by someone else's religious beliefs, under threat of punishment especially.

There are laws that we are currently ruled by, many many laws, that are religious in nature, or contain amendments that prohibit this and prohibit that, in the name of a particular religious belief.

I don't like being told I'm a criminal for my beliefs. As such, I've considered asking Obama to free "all of my people" from one in particular, but I know he can't, so I haven't. He would appreciate the concept though, of being like Lincoln in that respect.

I plead the fifth, at this point anyway, should you ask what I am referring to, but most of you could easily figure it out.

 

According to Gallup, 46% of Americans believe in creationism, making it number one in industrialized nations world-wide. Here is an article with the poll numbers:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/05/americans-believe-in-creationism_n_1571127.html

It's embarrassing to say the least.

 

I don't really see the big difference between the Muslim extremists and the American Christian Taliban. They are both willing to kill for their belief systems. Not all Muslims kill in the name of Allah and not all Christians kill in the name of God but there is a willingness by some of their flocks to do exactly that. Theocracies are inherently dangerous because a governing body can justify any atrocity simply by saying that it is in the name of God, Allah, Satan, you name it. I think that the "Christian" extremists of this country want nothing more than this country to become a Christian theocracy. YUCK!

 

As opposed to killing in the name of liberalism?

 

I had no idea the numbers were so high. Don't get me wrong, I believe a minimum of 85% of Americans believe in god, or a higher power of some kind, and the poll reflects that.

It's the creationism thing that has me concerned, obviously, how it's remained relatively steady over the past 30 years (from 44% in 1982 to 46% in 2012.

It throws a big wrench (a screaming rhesus monkey wrench) into my preconceived notion that places like this, social media, are changing that trend. Social media should be the game-changer, but these stats don't reflect that in any way.

I'm guessing the circle-jerk World doesn't encourage the typical social media, in favor of a circle-jerk social media.