Stop Teaching Ignorance!
As part of out campaign to expose the true agenda of the “Creation Museum,” we’ve launched two petitions:
- Click here to sign our petition for concerned citizens;
- Or, if you’re an educator — teaching anyone from preschoolers to PhD candidates — sign our petition for national educators here.
Let’s let America know what this museum is really about — institutionalizing a lie — and ensure that everyone recognizes that such campaigns to deceive our children are not acceptable.
Also, be sure to let everyone you know about the religious right’s anti-science campaign and our efforts to expose their true agenda.
Stop Teaching ignorance?!? Hmmm…. Modern Scientific Inquiry is infalible I guess?
Signed.
Signed.
Signed it most happily.
Clark, I must tell you how amusing I find the title of this post, though. Isn’t “teaching ignorance” something of an oxymoron?
David,
It’s not that it is infalible, but it is inherently self-correcting. It’s really a simple concept.
Yes, that’s kind of the idea. Though it is an oxymoron, I would say that it perfectly describes what Ham and AiG are hoping to do.
Describes it perfectly and precisely.
It’s just the church up to its same old shenanigans. They did the same thing when this guy named Galileo said he could show that the Earth was not the center of our solar system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo
Any time new evidence contradicts the church’s world view they are forced into a defensive posture. This is simply because their world view is not self-correcting, and they blindly follow the supposed inerrancy of their dogma. The actions they take from that point forward cover the full range of disgraceful behavior - from dishonesty at one end to torture, brutality, and murder at the other.
Every time they are shown to be wrong, a crack develops in their pristine ideas of inerrant knowledge. Science has been chipping away for centuries and their feeble ideas are on the verge of crumbling. This is why they are so interested in misrepresenting science. This is the reason for ID, ken ham’s creation display, stickers on text-books, etc..
If the facts don’t support your assertions, then just lie about things a little harder.
“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it” - Hitler
CNN Breaking News: Televangelist Jerry Falwell is being given CPR after being found unconcious and taken to a Virginia hospital, Falwell assistant Ron Godwin says.
Great quote Alba.
Falwell has expired.
Thanks, Alex.
Whatever, I wish I could say I felt something re: Falwell. Pity - nope. Sadness - nope. Just plain nothing.
Guess what will be running all over the news for the next week?
Still nothing. Does that make me a “bad” person?
(whisper: this is really sad but you know the song from the Wizard of Oz when the house landed on the witch? Well, it literally ran straight across my brain. God is going to be very angry with me. Ding dong the … …)
Alba, have you been rummaging through my brain again? That was my very first thought upon hearing the news.
Alba,
me too, but I didn’t want to say anything negative. Ding-Dong da dum dum dum, the wicked dum, dum dum dum dum.
Alex?? Is that you?? You didn’t want to say anything negative?? About Jerry Falwell? Well, you are definitely a bigger person than I am
Alex, is that why you were being quiet? I mean, not wanting to say anything negative pretty much leaves one at a loss for words when referring to Jerry Falwell.
To David A Dein, regarding your dumb post at the top of this thread.
Get it yet?
guys,
I think our time is better spent on more important things - this is silly and by acknowledging really dumb things like this museum which by the way, would be a great place to take some crew and have a day of laughs as you read the info plaques and look at dioramas of white men (sic) playing with dinosaurs around what would be the future location Bethlehem. Stuff like this just convinces me the religious right are reaching desperately. The people who would teach their children that whatever this museum may contain is scientific fact, well, you’re not going to be able to change those people anyway (nor rescue thier kids). I say let them build it and let it become a testament of delusion that we can all visit and have a laugh at whilst we’re there.
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but a petition is not going to stop these people building anything. Let them waste thier money and if you don’t agree with it, just go and make fun of it. I’m signing but I think energies are better spent elsewhere . . .
I am currently enjoying the company of the late Reverend Jerry Falwell. He seemed puzzled upon arrival, but most of them are. I have a nice condo set aside for him in the Suburb of Abusers of God’s Name. It’s a nice planned community, with lakes of hellfire for their swimming pleasure and mandatory 5 hour high impact aerobics classes for their health. He’s adapting nicely.
While I sympathize with the sentiments of this petition I do not think that it will achieve anything. If the goal is to simply vent your frustrations with AiG, I think Ken Ham and others already know that. No way they are going to walk away from a multimillion dollar investment simply because DefCon disagrees with them. If the goal is truly to get AiG to change the way it presents what it defines as “Science” to the American public then DefCon should try to establish a conversation with them, not just a diatribe. When is the last time any of us changed our minds about something just because another person called us stupid?
If this were a petition to some government agency or local authority that was considering granting special permission to AiG for this enterprise then I would sign, but in my opinion this battle line is poorly drawn and will not achieve anything except drawing the enmity of those you seek to influence.
Although I totally agree that this petition will not close the museum nor keep it from opening I still think that rational adults need to speak out against it. At this time energy’s are being spent elsewhere vince but if we don’t speak out against it and continue to speak out against it then according to creationist logic they must be right. I know it’s crazy and I know that someone else will question my use of the term “creationist logic” but the simple truth is that creationists are trying to get away with something here and if we say nothing then they wont have to defend their stupid “museum” and 10 million American fence sitters will start to think that maybe there is some validity to this creationist belief system. Let me say again, I know that this won’t close the museum but it is still the right thing to do and if the museum is still open 10 years from now, I will still be signing petitions protesting it’s existence!
The museum has already been “created”. If you don’t like it don’t visit. If other people would like the religious viewpoint of how the earth was “created”, formed or developed then they should have the right to make the decision of going to the Answers in Genesis museum for more information. It is groups like this that are ruining the lives of our children! (other groups NAACP, ACLU…)
Daffy,
The point is that the religious viewpoint is just that - a religious viewpoint. Please don’t confuse it with legitimate science, and don’t try to teach children that it is science. Obviously you are a promoter of ignorance; your children will suffer for that in the end.
Groups like this …ruining the lives of children! Waaah.
In memory of Jerry Falwell: (paraphrased quote) Good soldiers and good Christians don’t ask questions.
Fine, let people go if they so desire; however, don’t call this “science”, because it is not. Don’t call it “education”, because it is not educating anyone about the facts and scientific evidence. Call it what it is…a religious “experience”.
It is great to be a free American to believe in what you will. “God’s” creation, or the Scientific Law violation known as the “theory of evolution.” Believe what you will, defend what you will, but do not deny the public expression of the ideas. That destroys the Constitution.
I have no problems with kids being taught creation theory alongside evolution — why not teach them about all of the religion-based creation theories and let them make up their own minds?
Good point, Mike Blessing. But don’t call it science, when it’s religion.
Bosk, I believe it is Mr. Ham that is saying it’s one way or the other - God’s word or science. Sorry, bud, but in support of the Constitution, I choose not to have my kid’s taught God’s word in science class. People are free to believe whatever they want, but trying to fool that masses into believeing that religion is science?? Take your head out of the sand, man.
The Creation Musuem is a great idea — just one problem. They forgot the word MYTH.
What does this museum’s existence have to do with the constitution? This does not threaten the constitution in any way, shape or form. Granted, the museum is totally bizarre in my opinion and I’ll likely never visit, even though it’s located 5 miles from my house. But these people have the right to their museum. If parents disagree with their teachings…don’t take your child there. It’s not as if the creation museum is peddling their beliefs in your home on broadcast media. You have to VISIT the museum to be exposed to their teachings. So, don’t visit. Problem solved.
Okay, this is my first post. I am in complete agreement with Ken in the last post. I came to this blog thinking that I was the only one that felt this way, that this “movement” by DefCon was ridiculous. Glad to see that I am in good company. The Constitution is about Freedom of Speech, not squelching other’s expressions. By fighting against this museum, DefCon is contradicting their very basis of existence. I am a true Evolutionist in every sense, but I don’t feel that we have the right to poo-poo someone’s beliefs or their freedom to spend as much money as they want on a building to express those beliefs.
The basis of the Constitution to me is to stay out of everyone else’s business and mind your own. Let’s do that even with the religious right, no matter how hard people laugh at them!
Great posts- all.
This is a private museum, right? Then what’s the problem?
First this site supports Hate Crime legislation, which amounts to punishing people for their beliefs (I thought supporting these guys was supporiting freedom of belief — I guess not). Now they want to shut down a private museum, paid for with private funds. Maybe they should go back and review their charter…
Here’s the problem with the museum, and creationism in public schools. In addition to the fact that it simply is NOT science, it is unintelligently designed to convert to Christianity, coercively. One freakin’ minute, the radicals are trying to say it’s science. How stupid do they think people really are? (aside from the flock, I mean) So to all you folks saying, If you don’t like the museum, don’t go. I won’t, but keep this bullsh*t out of the public schools.
“Remember, it’s no good convincing people to believe in creation, without also leading them to believe and trust in the Creator/Redeemer, Jesus Christ.” Ken Ham
The “museum” is not a museum. It’s a show. It’s marketing. It’s a display of a world-view that cherry-picks agreeable verifiable and demonstrable facts (i.e. science) so as to give it credibility. That world view is a clever cloak of emotionally charged language, misrepresentation, and manipulation.
Just because someone was willing to spend millions of dollars (of other people’s money) to represent lies as truth, does not make them true.
Like little kids they are.
Lie harder you believers. Keep up the blinders. Ignore reality. Above all, don’t challenge science on it’s own terms - terms of independent verification, cross examination, multiple corroboration, and self-correction - those things bash your lies to dust….as they always have…your world view is nothing but dust.
What ham has done is built his fantasy-reality-display and called it “real”. Watch the believers choke out the cash and masturbate to themselves and their beliefs while they suck their thumb and cuddle in their security blanket of woven lies.
I hope he passes out handkerchiefs at the door so that they all can wipe the blissful-drool from their chin as they see the reality of their fantasy in full display with manikins, animatronics, and plaster. (they’ll ignore the lies….they don’t know about them!)
I just want to say that you think the phrase “separation of church and state” is in the constitution, well to help make your fight a little bit more accurate, I thought that I would help you out, it is not. It was written in a letter by Thomas Jefferson. The courts took this up sometime around 1940’s -1950’s. The courts used it against Christians.
I would just say that I do not agree with you on the religion of evolution, and yes evolution is just a religion, because it cannot be proven scientifically and I find evolution harder to believe. The fossils that scientists find that support evolution are pieced together from different animals. I can only pray that God will give you a chance to realize the truth. I am not saying here that you do not have the right to speak, I am just trying to correct you on the belief of that the “separation of church and state” phrase is in the constitution.
God can take what you are doing and turn it into good! The more you fight the museum, the more publicity it gets. Also, the money to build this was taken up in private donations. It is not paid for by tax payers/government.
Mike Blessing, you said “I have no problems with kids being taught creation theory alongside evolution — why not teach them about all of the religion-based creation theories and let them make up their own minds”?
The reason why not is simple. It’s because creation stories are not science. And because students should learn the scientific method, and learn why real scientists form the explanantions and theories that they form. Students shouldn’t be “making up their own minds” about this stuff.
Would you let them “make up their own minds” about whether or not 2 + 2 = 4?
Don, that’s funny. I gave my daughter an internet assignment. Over a period of two weeks, she was to search, read, and print out two creation stories each day so she could see how different cultures formed their ideas and beliefs. After day four, she said, “If I tell you that this one is my favorite can I bail on this assignment?”
The Great Albatross
http://www.spiralgoddess.com/CreationStory.html
Hate to break it to you, DL, but no one here has ever stated that the phrase “separation of church and state” is written in the Constitution. Of course, there is ALSO no mention of GOD in the Constitution, either. So, you have wasted bandwidth coming here to “correct” us on our “assumption”, because the vast majority of the people on this site have actually taken the time to read the Constitution in full. We know what’s there and what isn’t. What we HAVE said is that the United States is NOT a “Christian Nation”. For confirmation of this fact, please refer to Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli of 1797.
DL,
I’m not going to waste my time on you right now, but when you say evolution is a religion it shows one thing. You don’t have a clue to what science is and you probably never had a course in science or biology beyond high school, if you graduated from high school.
You are parroting stock phrases used by right wing religious nut cases.
There is an indisputeable amount of evidence for evolution.
There is not one iota of scientific evidence for the existence of god. That is why they call it a “belief systyem.”
If you have even one bit of scientific evidence for the existence of god, let’s here it.
If you Google “Scientific Theory” you can learn what a scientific theory really is. Ignoramuses such as yourself think a scientific theory is what regular people refer to as a “theory.”
Non-scientist think of the word theory as something they thought up while in the shower this morning. That has nothing what to do with what a scientific theory is.
Your post exudes ignorance. You don’t have a clue what you are talking about.
Personally, I LOVE the idea of the museum. I like anything that muddles things in people’s heads. That’s why I had my people invent marketing. The truth is such hairy business, I cannot understand why anyone would want to get involved in it. Doublespeak is easier, more fun, and less burden on the conscience than truth. Oh, and people really hate it when you tell them the truth.
DL: You are speaking about Faith as if it’s Fact. “The fossils that scientists find that support evolution are pieced together from different animals.” This is nonsense and you probably know that deep down. I’m going to make it clear to you. Go to your local zoo. Better yet, go to a good one. The nearest one to you would probably be St. Louis. It’s free. Go to their very good exhibit of great apes. Look at a chimpanzee and then look at all the slobbering, slack jawed gawkers around you. Watch for a while. Look at how the parts fit together, the movement, the face, the eyes. If those chimp eyes aren’t very very similar to the ones on the people around you, you need to have yours examined. Move down the line, and look at the gorillas, same way, for a while. Notice how similar the chimps and the gorillas are. Think about their environments (you can read about them on the helpful plaques there), and how each is better suited for its home than the other’s. Again, look at the faces, the eyes and look at the people around you. Repeat with the orangutans. You have now gone back several million years in divergent evolution. I’m not saying your great grandfather was a chimp (in your case, maybe), but that maybe your great to the 30th grandfather and that chimp’s great to the 35th grandfather might’ve been pretty similar. In fact, your DNA is like 95% the same as his.
Believe what you want to, ignore the world around you. Satan likes it better that way.
Stephanie would know better, but I believe that the DNA similarities is more like 98%.
I just want to say that I took a Biology course in college and passed with an A. I also have worked at an agricultural lab. To me it is easier for me to believe that things are destroyed when they explode not made. It is more believable to know God created the world than to think things exploded and were made.
I know my ancestors were not monkeys, chimpanzees, or anything of the like.
A theory is a scientific idea, thought, that scientists cannot prove.
I also ask about the laws that we obey. I am curious, since you do not believe in the Bible, what do you do about stealing, killing? I hope you would not say that we should be allowed to steal or kill but it is based in the Bible in the Ten Commandments. Just wondering about that hoping someone could clarify that for me. I pray that God would open your eyes.
“I know my ancestors were not monkeys, chimpanzees, or anything of the like.”
So show us….how do you “know” this? There is much evidence that is contrary to your misinformed assertion.
To clarify, monkeys and chimps are our cousins, not our ancestors. We (monkeys, chimps, gorillas, etc.) all have a common ancestor back in time.
(hint: you may want to look up the word “phylogeny” and UNDERSTAND what it means and how it works)
http://www.mnh.si.edu/anthro/humanorigins/ha/a_tree.html
So, please SHOW us what you know about human ancestors.
Next,
“A theory is a scientific idea, thought, that scientists cannot prove.”. This not even wrong. Here is what a theory is….just follow the links. And if you care to refute any of the information in the links, by all means please do - just do it with credible citation:
“A theory is a logically self-consistent model or framework for describing the behavior of a related set of natural or social phenomena. It originates from and/or is supported by experimental evidence (see scientific method). In this sense, a theory is a systematic and formalized expression of all previous observations that is predictive, logical and testable.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory
http://physics.ucr.edu/~wudka/Physics7/Notes_www/node6.html
As far as ethics goes, it was wrong to murder long before the 10 commandments. Determining what is right and what is wrong requires careful reflection on a case-by-case basis. No religion has a monopoly on morality. A person’s religion has never stopped them from being immoral. As a matter of fact, religion often is the reason for humans to act immorally.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt
So there DimLight - I’ve provided you with thoughtful dialog and credible citation that solidly refutes your feeble assertions. How do you respond? Show us your character and let’s see how you face the challenge. I think I have a pretty good idea of how this will unfold.
DL,
Again, I believe that you need to do a little research. Hammurabi’s code (which predates the Ten Commandments by several centuries) also contains admonishments against muder and theft. Ancient Egyptian society, which also predates the Bible by centuries, also had laws regarding murder and theft. In point of fact, most societies, from the most ancient to the most modern, had laws regarding murder and theft. One need not believe in the Bible in order to know that murder and theft are wrong.
Yes, they were there long before the Ten Commandments and even before Hammurabi’s code. God has placed these laws on a person’s heart to know in fact what is right and wrong. Even a child knows what is right and wrong. I have seen it happen. They were never taught that stealing is wrong, but they know deep down even though they do not know what to call it.
I know that I will be attacked on anything I say. Again I can only pray that God will change your mind. I know I cannot change your mind and I am not trying too. I am just stating what I believe.
You didn’t even address my points. How rude and weak of you….however not unexpected. The truth of reality scares people like you.
Some people tell their kids that if they steal stuff they will go to hell because god loves them. Is that not fractured logic?
Humanists show their kids it is wrong to steal because of the societal reasons. There are huge advantages to knowing why we frown on stealing, cheating, etc, but going to hell is not a good reason because nobody believes that shit.
A child “knows” what is right and wrong???? Hysterical! Are you a parent by any chance? Have you ever wheeled a baby through ANY store?? Have you never gone back into the store when your toddler presents you with a “gift” courtesy of the store??
You go ahead and pray. Why not pray for peace, less corruptable governments, and an end to hunger? Oh, you probably have already? Where’s God? On vacation? Why hasn’t he stopped hunger?
Alex,
We’re wasting our time, as usual. This ignorant types have to have some comfort in life because they are not emotionally equipped to face realities and especially death in a mature manner. Karl Marx stated that “religion is the opium for the masses.”
Here is a decent article on this subject:
http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/InstituteofCognitionCulture/Staff/JesseMBering/FileStore/Filetoupload,37915,en.pdf
Actually, God did change my mind…which is why I am a Wiccan now instead of a Christian. Thanks for playing, though.
Oh? And just where did you ever see a child grow up without being taught about right and wrong, pray tell?
DL,
What evidence do you have for the existence of a god?
Yes, I’m praying that DL will enlighten me with this idea that good/bad is embedded on the heart of a baby. That they “know” right from wrong without being taught.
That would explain all the degenerates in our society, how? God missed a few?
Hey! Remember last week’s Cameron/Comfort debate with atheists where Comfort was going to prove scientifically that God exists without even mentioning the Bible?
Here’s what he had to say post-debate:
Debate Shed Light on Anti-Christian Bias in Society, says Comfort
Evangelist Ray Comfort says last week’s debate between himself, fellow Christian Kirk Cameron and two atheists was a unique opportunity to present the message of salvation to millions, OneNewsNow.com reports. Comfort presented the biblical plan of salvation via the Ten Commandments, while both Comfort and Cameron used creation, DNA, the conscience and conversion to prove God’s existence.
Scientific evidence is a unique presentation of the message of salvation? I am now so confused. You guys said science was all about, well you know, observation, experimentation, falsification. You told me nothing about presentation of messages of salvation. Now I must go study up on science. I hear ‘The Way of the Master’ is offering free online courses.
DL,
I don’t think you are stupid. I think your religion is stupid.
DL - do you believe that you have a right to privacy? If so, from where do you derive this right?
DL Says: It is not paid for by tax payers/government.
It would certainly be interesting to follow the trail. If one single penny can be traced to one single taxpayer through the govt, oh what a lovely day it’d be.
To DL, regarding the phrase “separation of church and state” not appearing in the Constitution…
No shit, Sherlock!
We all know that. However, what you are too dumb to understand is, that separation is inferred by what IS written.
It’s really quite simple.
Korina Branson Says:
“The basis of the Constitution to me is to stay out of everyone else’s business and mind your own. Let’s do that even with the religious right, no matter how hard people laugh at them”!
Korina, the problem is, the Religious Reich refuses to stay out of OUR business. And, they have amassed so much political power and influence that we are effectively living in their theocracy this very day.
AMEN, Don.
Right now I am listening to “spirit in the sky.” They say nothing about hell. They must be Judeo’s.
An explanation:
I really wrote the Bible. Well, not really, but really. You mortals might call it ghost writing. If I had a conscience, I would say I’m sorry. Thank Me, I don’t. Now, you might suggest that this was poor business strategy. That shows what you know. I preempted those goody-goodies up in Heaven. Really. I made the first move, and as my minions at Harvard Business School contend, the first mover gets the advantage. So, yeah, the Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth (and pretty much anyone who distributes them, lives by them, or does anything but put it down and burn it) is my tool.
That Intelligent Design thing… My idea. Creationism. Me again. Arguments against the big bang? I’m blushing, you got me. Hell, I even invented the 1040.
Most good folks might be asking why? Well, I like to screw with people. But also, the Other Guy (you know, my old landlord, the one who threw me out), he wants to test people. There, I said it. So, the folks who buy into My Intelligent Design fail the test, come directly to me, work in my Genesis Supporting Textbook Assembly Division. Yeah. That all comes from “South of the Border.”
I love the mortals. But I invented Irony too.
DL? Do you believe that you have a right to privacy? From where to you derive this right?
Thanks, Satan. Do you and God play poker on Friday nights?
We try not to say the G word around me. We’re not on speaking terms. To give you a modern, earthly example, it’s like Eisner and Katzenberg. Only with irresistible force/unmovable object like power. You know, like if Eisner were really Oprah and Katzenberg Bill Gates.
Something puzzling: I don’t get why VH1 and E! never put Me and the Other Guy on their top 100 celebrity feuds. I mean I understand that we’re not Paris and Nicole, but we must at least beat Brooke Shields and Tom Cruise. I would never go to the Other Guy’s wedding.
Satan, dear, your feud with your former landlord is so primordial. Face it, dude, the feud between you is simply old news. However, The History Channel did run a program devoted entirely to your famous feud. It was rather interesting to me, because they did a really good job of being fair and unbiased…neither one of you two came off looking worse than the other. In fact, the program was quite sympathetic to your case.
Ya gotta have sympathy for the devil. He’s only doing what he was designed to do and gets a bad rap for it.
Thanks Dale.
I did catch the History Channel, but really, VH1 & E! are where the hip kids play. I want to hear Hal Sparks thoughts on our feud.
But seriously folks, understand that the Other Guy and I have been apart for so long that I barely remember Her face. We’re almost like The Davies brothers from the Kinks. But I’m making a resolution to try. I got a book on Emotional Intelligence (yeah, it too came from Hell, Inc publishing) and I’m going to make the effort to heal the divide. Then we’ll go on a reunion tour. Can you imagine the ticket prices we will get if the Police can get $500 a seat?
But if I want to go to a creation museum, and take my children, Hello! It’s fricken America, I can and will. (Not Really!
I have no children, nor the desire to go to an Answers in Genesis Museum, but I still believe in the marketplace of
ideas let the place exist)
Furthermore The petition only gives the Creation Museum more creedence. I’ve heard about this place in my local
paper, and I’ve had a nice old lady tell me about the horrible protestors bothering a ministry she agrees with.
The marketplace of ideas by it’s very design demands that if you have the means you should build a Creation
Museum, and Evolution Museum, and an Alien Lifeform Museum. If science educators can’t accpet an alternate
theory we no longer have science, we have Religion. 100 years from now Scientists will laugh at how simple
our scientific theories were. WAKE UP!!
David? Do you not see what you just said?
” If science educators can’t accpet an alternate theory we no longer have science, we have Religion.”
And if we should per chance have religion calling itself science, should we object, in you marketplace of ideas world? If we have someone claiming to cure cancer, wouldn’t we ask for the proof in their claims? If we have someone claiming that they can scientifically prove man and dinosaur co-existed, shouldn’t we again ask for proof, for the sake of educating our children, and an intelligent society? Wouldn’t we require something more than a Bible in the way of proof?
I, for one, love the “market Place for Ideas.” but I despise the Market place of Crackpots and Snake oil Salesmen.
And Now Virgina Tech, who is next?
When I first heard of the April 20, 1999 massacre in Littleton,
Colorado, my reaction was shock, horror, and grief — grief over the
lives lost, grief at the suffering of the families, and grief over
what has happened to our country. Why is this happening?
An Oregon school fell victim to a murderer who with intent, went
into the school to slaughter fellow students. October of 1998, a 16-
year-old in Pearl, Mississippi killed his mother then shot 9
students, killing two of them. December of 1998, a 14-year-old boy
killed 3 students in Paducah, KY, wounding others in a student-led
prayer meeting. The “experts” consoled us that this is a rare event.
Once is an “instance,” twice would be a “co-instance,” three or more
establishes a “pattern.” A 15-year-old girl was hanged and pummeled
by fellow students, because they feared she was going to “snitch” on
them.
In Springfield, OR, a 15-year-old murders his parents in their home,
then turns his weapons on students in his school, killing one,
critically injuring others as “he just mowed ‘em down.” Strangely, a
scene in Terminator II, may shed some light on “Why is this
happening?”
The Terminator was about to kill a man who was simply trying to help
the young John Conner. The Terminator was stopped by John Conner and
ordered, by Conner, not to “kill” people. The Terminator
replied, “Why?” And Conner insisted, “You just can’t go around
killing people!” Again the Terminator asked, “Why?” Conner in
frustration said, “You just can’t…!” Conner answered with no
foundational absolutes, which means he was only expressing his
opinion. “Why not murder?” is equally a valid question in a society
with no absolutes.
Our nation’s schools have been emancipated from absolute standards
by ignoring our Creator God. Our youth are taught that we, by
chance, evolved from primordial soup. They are simply re-arranged
pond scum, with no real worth to the world, no purpose, no hope, and
no meaning what-so-ever! Is it any wonder that suicide is one of the
leading causes of death among teens? Our youth are acting
consistently with what they have been taught.
According to the Evolution belief system, human life has no more
meaning than a blade of grass. We mow our lawns, so why not mow down
our fellow man — what’s the difference? Hitler applied the same
evolutionary logic to the people of Europe. We rid our homes of
unwanted vermin, why not rid the world of unwanted humans — what’s
the difference? This atheistic/evolutionary philosophy of our day is
the logical foundation and justification for this “cruel” behavior
because there are no moral absolutes.
What is the solution? What can we do? We must expose evolution as
the pseudo-science it is, teaching our children that they are not a
conglomeration of random chance accidents, but rather are created in
the very image of God. Then we must teach our children that there
are moral standards we abide by set by our Creator God.
Thanks for the blather, Kurt.
Did you know that members of the KKK call themselves “christian”?
Did you know that Eric Rudolph is “christian”?
Tim McVeigh?
You’re an idiot.