when i worked for a book store i became familiar with beka text books for home school.. i spoke with the mothers who came looking for them.
i realized something didn't smell right.. then, i realized there are a couple of generations of fundamentalist kids who have had no exposure.
to the scientific method, science facts or any conversancy with physics or biology or history as a result of beka textbooks.. in a nutshell here is the situation:.
Which reminds me of my daughter when very young:
Bedtime reading of a much loved story. Her, thumb in mouth, security blanket clutched tightly, eyes closed.
Me, in a hurry, sure she was asleep, trying to "get out of there".
Her, devastingly, through slumbered, slurred, speech: "Dad, you turned over two pages!" then, zonc! gone!
Severn Bore link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKA39LQOIck
The water does not move - it is an energy wave riding ON the water.
Cliff
jws have long ascribed billions of years to the age of the earth, yet only thousands to the length of the creative days (see 2014 awake!
on creation).
what game are they playing??
God has 10 fingers
So, of course, she counts in decimal. 10s 100s, 1000s.
Just like mankind. Strange co-incidence ....
have decided to check out my local parish church.
it has a real mix of people.
old, young families and military personnel/families.
A fragment from the English (i.e. C of E and derivatives) Prayer Book:
| Minister | Open our lips, O Lord. | |
| People | And we shall declare your praise. | |
| Minister | O God, make speed to save us. | |
| People | O Lord, make haste to help us. | |
| Minister | Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit: | |
| People | as it was in the beginning, is now, and shall be for ever. Amen. | |
| Minister | Let us praise the Lord. | |
| People | The Lord's name be praised. |
Pretty normal stuff!
Sung or intoned in "higher" churches, mumbled in non-conformist (Methodist etc)
dawkins: religion no moral compass.
by jason miks.
a number of readers noting your skepticism over religions role in society ask whether an absence of religion would leave us without a moral compass?.
I wish you nothing but well, but if you are just "having a laugh"! then further debate is a waste of time.
dawkins: religion no moral compass.
by jason miks.
a number of readers noting your skepticism over religions role in society ask whether an absence of religion would leave us without a moral compass?.
@Kate: "He said nothing that I know of. And that's my point, the silence is deafening. Bad things happen when good men do and say nothing."
A curious statement!
I don't recall Dawkins saying anything publically about Scottish Devolution, Badger Culls, The Public Defecit or the Price of Fish! Nor would I expect him to!
You seem to be be developing quite a "thing" about him?
i understand that they claim to have the responsibility to preach to every corner of the earth, so they can encourage armageddon to come quickly.
(matthew 24:14 "and this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
what rationale do they have, for keeping track of their hours and literature placements?
"Busy doin' nothing, ....." tra-la
as a daily visitor of this site i am shocked by how judgemental i am.. .
if someone makes a valid point but does not spell well it colours my judgement.. .
if someone who is a clown has excellent grammar i give them leeway.. as an aside i am a gramaphobe.. .
@jgnat
I always read your posts with pleasure: Brief, to the point and thoughtful.
I would not find them thus if bad grammar, punctuation and sloppyness got in the way.
Cliff (UK, BBC listener - but they are losing the battle)
science imo does not have all the answers.
when i discover gaps in science, it's easy for me, as a temporary measure to fill in the gaps with god.
i do this until i have learnt something new.. what about you?
Kate,
already answered above, I think. Do not confuse intellect with faith. Different planes.
Cliff
science imo does not have all the answers.
when i discover gaps in science, it's easy for me, as a temporary measure to fill in the gaps with god.
i do this until i have learnt something new.. what about you?
I was never a JW so perhaps I don't understand your mind-set.
Replacing "I don't know" with "god did it" is an intellectual cop-out. There is no evidence for it.
For me there should be a reason to believe something.
