The teaching of myths as reality is very dangerous indeed.

If you are taught that the earth is 4,500 years old, why should you belive the scientists when they say that the earths climate is changing, just like it did in the past, and we should do something about it.

WE KNOW the earth didn't exist then, so they must be wrong. Anyway, the Rapture is going to sweep us up to heaven next week anyway. Nobaody will mind Holland, Loisiana, Bangaldesh...... being underwater.


Faith is not dangerous, fundementalism is.

The best model for faith of this kind is probably alcohol. Many people will not have any, many can enjoy it in moderation, and it does no harm, but some people are vunerable, and it becomes the dominating thing in their lives, which can very easily destroy them.



Isn't there a line in that Les Barker poem, Unclear Physics, along the lines of:

"When a moron meets a religion, it becomes a fundementalist"