the bible is funnywhat's funnier is fundementalist christians attempts to defend the weirdness..
the first lots of humans created by le god.. the progeny of adam and eve.. incest ignored.. all lived to well past 700 years of age.. some not having kids till they were over 400..
bringing this up one fundementalists defence was that when the earth was made their was an ice crust around it creating a different atmospheric pressure..thsu they could live for longer..
it's brilliant. so much of their life is built with faith as the core route of their understanding that you can't shift it because if you do what they know of themselves would be forced to collapse with it... the mind is a bit fascinating.
(the first lots of humans created by le god.. the progeny of adam and eve.. incest ignored.. all lived to well past 700 years of age.. some not having kids till they were over 400..
bringing this up one fundementalists defence was that when the earth was made their was an ice crust around it creating a different atmospheric pressure..thsu they could live for longer..
it's brilliant. so much of their life is built with faith as the core route of their understanding that you can't shift it because if you do what they know of themselves would be forced to collapse with it... the mind is a bit fascinating.
arrangedletters,
Sun 10 Aug 2008, 1:51,
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Yeah, well I can pull a rabbit out of a hat,albeit dead. But a rabbit!
monkdagola but how do you TURN a phrase?,
Sun 10 Aug 2008, 1:54,
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hmmmmmyes.
well, I obviously agree, being that I'm (I FUCKING HOPE) a couple of months away from being a Phd in psychology...
but
in the case of religion it might not necessarily be that strange. I would be willing to bet a lot of money that if children were given balanced information about religion and science between the ages of 4 yrs and 8/9yrs, then the majority of children would grown up to be atheist or sentimental agnostic.
My opinion (without knowing an enormous amount about this area) is that children who learn about religion during the language stage of development, will be hiiiighly probably to retain religious opinion throughout their lives.
*drunk oponions on the intnutz*
(well, I obviously agree, being that I'm (I FUCKING HOPE) a couple of months away from being a Phd in psychology...
but
in the case of religion it might not necessarily be that strange. I would be willing to bet a lot of money that if children were given balanced information about religion and science between the ages of 4 yrs and 8/9yrs, then the majority of children would grown up to be atheist or sentimental agnostic.
My opinion (without knowing an enormous amount about this area) is that children who learn about religion during the language stage of development, will be hiiiighly probably to retain religious opinion throughout their lives.
*drunk oponions on the intnutz*
drbroon abloooobloobloo,
Sun 10 Aug 2008, 2:04,
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