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Thread #158223   Message #3752969
Posted By: GUEST
23-Nov-15 - 02:34 PM
Thread Name: BS: The Pope in America
Subject: RE: BS: The Pope in America
This is the issue. Read what pete star has put.

Then tell me that religion isn't a danger to society.

You'd be moaning if we taught kids that 1+1+3 or that wind farms are there to cool the fields down. Yet allowing the search for knowledge to be suppressed? I told mine Santa and the tooth fairy existed and now my eldest tells my granddaughter the same thing. But stopping believing in child fantasy is a rite of passage. My youngest's room mate at 'uni spent a lot of his first year reading Harry Potter novels because his loony parents refused to let him read it. Apparently wizards and other fantasy confuse you when your parents want their Jesus fantasy to rule supreme. I'd laugh If it weren't so fucking tragic that God botherers crave respect and want to influence society.

Teaching superstition as fact and calling the search for knowledge a story is child abuse, it really is.

Perpetuating it by embracing literal idiots as your own just abuses their low intellect and their vulnerability. We see the problem with believing superstition literally with the Middle East now. It's too damned convenient to abuse their low intelligence to nefarious ends by manipulative evil bastards.