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MoxyMoe - Re: Stories of Faith
I generally welcome newcomers to Blogit but all I can muster after reading your comment is spare me. Simply put; I reckon a person should be able to define, or at least have a rudimentary understanding of what they are against. It didn't take you but two senteces to give yourself away as someone who has learned their science in church.
posted by
gomedome
on March 9, 2009 at 9:43 PM
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Stories of Faith
I feel the same way about Evolution Stories as you do about Bible Stories. Either is a position of Faith or if that is a repulsive word, we can call it decision making. Humans want finite answers and Evolution provides comfort for those want to choose a God that fits there view of life. The Bible is many things, allegorical, philosophical, a guide line for moral behavior if nothing else. The difference is that the Bible calls all humans to look upward and not see themselves as the answer to life. We decide to believe what we want to believe. I do not see myself as a mass of biochemical neurons firing randomly nor one who has evolved from monkeys or the ocean. I understand that church and state are to remain separate but this is not the case in the religion of Evolution. I must say that this religion or the science that is being proposed to our children is as much a brain washing as non-believers state the Bible is to our society.
I asked the same questions for many years. I have decided to believe in hope, love, the dignity of man and the divine intervention of God. Perhaps evolution is part of how we came to be here. I don't know but I do know that I am not an accident and that heaven is home at the end of my life.
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MoxyMoe
on March 9, 2009 at 3:10 PM
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Whysper - I succeeded at much the same thing with my children
On my side of the family the catholics wanted to fill their heads with all of their medieval religious constructs while my wife's side of the family wanted to give them full fledged bible lobotomies. I refused to subject them to that and it did cause a fair bit of family turmoil that is still going on today, 20 years later. When all was said and done, my kids did a few years of Sunday school in a moderate Christian church and ultimately avoided the fear and damnation nonsense that screws up so many people. If they stay out of jail, I'll consider my efforts a complete success.
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gomedome
on July 4, 2007 at 11:01 AM
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It is the main reason I didn't send my ex-children to church
I didn't want them brainwashed before they had a chance to make their own search for an invisible friend.
posted by
Whysper
on July 4, 2007 at 10:09 AM
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nenkai04 - I haven't read Life of Pi but the exercise you describe of
comparing ancient fables is something I have done many times.
When my children were very young, I refused to teach them biblical stories as if they were fact and held no special allegience to anything written in the bible. Quite often bible stories were replaced with stories from native mythology or anything that I felt was suitable for children.
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gomedome
on July 4, 2007 at 9:16 AM
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Some good points. Have you ever read Life of Pi? It takes the approach of "which is a better story" rather than, "which story is more realistic/believable". It's an interesting angle, at least.
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nenkai04
on July 4, 2007 at 8:45 AM
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