Chris Silver #fundie

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So WHY is evolution taught in school and not christianity? What's really a shame is a person actually came up with a religion, something about a spaghetti monster, if anyone has ever heard it, but it was a joke, not real. The purpose of the spaghetti monster religion was to make people understand that more than one viewpoint needs to be heard, not just one. But what's really sad is that people ACTUALLY follow this religion now even though the creator/founder doesn't! Crazy, right? But wait, who else did that? ... Darwin did, came up with some stupid theory that people actually follow now even though he admitted the idea was stupid and could not possibly be true. And it's not the fact that we are learning evolution in class that makes me mad, it makes me mad that they are teaching us evolution and NOT christianity, or any other religion for that matter (for those who believe something different). I want to know who chose this for all of us, biology and and similar classes should be an elective, not a requirement, and religious classes should be a choice as an elective as well. Because I'm sick of learning things IN SCHOOL that I don't believe in. Of course I do my own research on subjects like evolution and other religions to help my growth as a christian, but it shouldn't count as a grade.
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old comment by Damen

So WHY is evolution taught in school and not christianity?

Seperation of Church and State.

What's really a shame is a person actually came up with a religion, something about a spaghetti monster, if anyone has ever heard it, but it was a joke, not real. The purpose of the spaghetti monster religion was to make people understand that more than one viewpoint needs to be heard, not just one. But what's really sad is that people ACTUALLY follow this religion now even though the creator/founder doesn't! Crazy, right?

I shall eat a plate of pasta and pray that you are touched by His Noodly Appendage.

But wait, who else did that? ... Darwin did, came up with some stupid theory that people actually follow now even though he admitted the idea was stupid and could not possibly be true.

First off, you're perpetuating a lie. Second off, even if Darwin recounted evolution (bullshit) that means very little as we're still finding evidence for it to this day and it's one of the best documented scientific theories of our time.

And it's not the fact that we are learning evolution in class that makes me mad, it makes me mad that they are teaching us evolution and NOT christianity, or any other religion for that matter (for those who believe something different).

Because evolution is a science and not a religion, no matter how much you may wish otherwise.

I want to know who chose this for all of us, biology and and similar classes should be an elective, not a requirement,

Thankfully the majority of us don't feel that way, which is why we haven't become a backwater nation.

and religious classes should be a choice as an elective as well.

I actually happen to agree with this, so long as all religions are covered equally.

Because I'm sick of learning things IN SCHOOL that I don't believe in.

I don't believe in math, so I shouldn't have to learn it.

And Pi is exactly three!

Of course I do my own research on subjects like evolution

And you're a shining example of why we need evolution taught in schools.

and other religions to help my growth as a christian,

Other religions, so long as you only get your info from fundie propaganda websites so you can learn The TRUTH about those baby eating, satan worshipping Buddhists!

but it shouldn't count as a grade.

Considering you're "doing your own research" I doubt there's gonna be a great deal of people telling you otherwise.

...just...god damn you fail so hard.

old comment by KR

Couple of thoughts of this word salad:

1. you can learn your christianity outside of (secular) public schools as much as you want.

2. basic education is for, you know, just to give you a head start in society to function in it. It's your choice what you do after you complete your primary school. Be grateful, i mean, without it, you'd probably couldn't read your bible, 'cause you wouldn't know how to read, write, count etc.

3. Maybe it would've been better for you not to go to public school: i most certainly wouldn't have to have read this rubbish.

(i'm assuming that OP is in the last upper grades, otherwise s/he wouldn't be ranting about that, 'cause s/he would've headed on to some wackodoodle-xian-high school already. I could be wrong, though)

old comment by Anon

No, my dear Fundie, you (as usual) didn't get it at all.

The purpose of founding the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster was:

YOU religious nutjobs want your sheer nonsense ('intelligent' design) to be teached in SCIENCE class.

To counter this blatant attack, we demand that sheer nonsense (a Flying Spaghetti Monster created the world) must be teached in RELIGIOUS class.

When you demand a "balanced view" in science class, then we demand also a "balanced view" in religious class.

You feel uncomfortable with teaching "The Flying Spaghetti Monster" in religious class? Well, now you get a clue how we feel about "intelligent design" in science class.

old comment by Anon

Because I'm sick of learning things IN SCHOOL that I don't believe in.

Sorry to say that, but society doesn't need more people with skills so low that they can only work as burger-flippers.

There is a very good reason why science is a major part of the school curriculum. You cannot build a strong, healthy economy in the 21st century on faith and prayer alone.

This is something what countries like Saudi Arabia will learn the hard way in the next decades. Deeply pious, most young people enroll for theology on university there, and their only source of income are their oil revenues. Once their oil reserves are depleted, they will learn that you cannot maintain a luxurious lifestyle when you own nothing but desert sand, and a populace which is mostly educated in theology. I'm quite sure, regardless how hard they pray, their old luxurious lifestyle won't come back...