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Debate:Is religion morally wrong? (view source)
Revision as of 22:56, July 20, 2012
, 22:56, July 20, 2012→Yes
:::Also, in many fundamentalist religious groups, children are brought up in ignorance of everything apart from what is taught to them by their parents, or teacher. Or, they are taught in a slanted view, which distorts the truth. All this because those parents or teachers seem afraid that their young charges may find something in another viewpoint they like more than what they are being taught! That '''is''' morally wrong. The choice should be the child's not the elders'. [[User:MatteeNeutra|MatteeNeutra]] 12:16, 17 April 2007 (EDT)
:::Also, in many fundamentalist religious groups, children are brought up in ignorance of everything apart from what is taught to them by their parents, or teacher. Or, they are taught in a slanted view, which distorts the truth. All this because those parents or teachers seem afraid that their young charges may find something in another viewpoint they like more than what they are being taught! That '''is''' morally wrong. The choice should be the child's not the elders'. [[User:MatteeNeutra|MatteeNeutra]] 12:16, 17 April 2007 (EDT)
::::How many fundamentalist religious groups do you know? I came to Jesus via a summercamp and went to a non-denomination fundamentalist Baptist Church for years. I've had a lot of experiences since then with megachurches and elsewhere, and it to me remains central to free thought. The pastor there actually allowed us to ask questions during the sermons and would teach different competing theories, challenging us to consider them for ourselves. He was confident in the Bible and believed it could stand up to scrutiny. While we didn't sing modern Christian music, he said this was a preference and that was up to other churches - he just wasn't into it. To this day it remains one of my fondest memories, and encouraged my thought process far more than any church or college I've been in (I have over 60 credit hours completed at an accredited college). --[[User:Jzyehoshua|Jzyehoshua]] 18:56, 20 July 2012 (EDT)
::There's a reason that William Shakespeare's dramas, King David's tribulations & and the Andy Griffith show (how's that for a unexpected twist?) are timeless stories that affect us in the same way as when they affected those to whom these stories were first told. They affect us all the same way because human nature does not change. The truth is we all love, hate, breath, live and die. The human condition is infinitely variable, but human nature is constant. Of course, there are countless examples of this simple and plainly evident truth. I'm quite sure I'm not the first one to tell you that human nature is the same. In fact, this truth is the foundation of our concepts of equality and our freedoms of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
::There's a reason that William Shakespeare's dramas, King David's tribulations & and the Andy Griffith show (how's that for a unexpected twist?) are timeless stories that affect us in the same way as when they affected those to whom these stories were first told. They affect us all the same way because human nature does not change. The truth is we all love, hate, breath, live and die. The human condition is infinitely variable, but human nature is constant. Of course, there are countless examples of this simple and plainly evident truth. I'm quite sure I'm not the first one to tell you that human nature is the same. In fact, this truth is the foundation of our concepts of equality and our freedoms of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.