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Originally Posted by Mr Angry
Who does tell you the best way to bring your children up, Russ? Discussing faith is diffrent from teaching faith.
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What is said in the article is quite limited in scope and appears centered around something you'd hope the man would know about, biology.
I presume it's the thing where creationists indoctrinate their kids to disbelieve all the science, utterly overwhelming as the evidence for it is, and instead believe whatever their parents' faith tells them to.
Touches onto a wider point about rational thinking and questioning dogma I imagine. It's quite a depressing sight seeing intelligent young people regurgitate 'God/Allah/Yahweh did it' and their evidence for it being 'because my holy book says so'. Pretty much coming down to 'because my parents told me so'. Since when did kids past a certain age believe their parents?
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Originally Posted by Stephen
I find this guy to be a total idiot.
I went to a catholic school, but we were still taught a bit about other religions. Most people are clever enough to make their own minds up and not be brainwashed.
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Context - the man is in Northern Ireland. In Northern Ireland rather strong political forces want to get creationism into schools and the education system is absurdly heavily polarised. The vast majority of schools are either Catholic or Protestant faith schools and there are relatively few where children from Catholic and Protestant families mix.
In the Irish Republic secular schools barely exist. They're about 1% of the total.
Most adult people are clever enough to make their own minds up, this can't be said for young children who are, necessarily, impressionable.