<You keep mentioning the sins of religionists. Thing is in our country, no one's children have to go to church and tax money's don't pay for churches. So whatever they do, its w/o the power of the state behind them.>
Ummm, actually Churches get HUGE subsidies via tax free status and rules for donations (tax deductions). As for "power of the staate"... we'll in this country THATS YOU, people vote on that. YOU can act for change of the ciriculum... AND you can tell your kids what they're learning is BS if you want. I found out what I learned about cowboys and indians was all BS when I got older... so?
This is worth repeating:
<<You keep mentioning the sins of religionists>>
FOR GOOD REASON... IMHO BY FAR the greatest ignorance between these two factions (religion vs science) is BY FAR on the religionists side. By miles and miles. From my viewpoint you need to study history, period.
I think we're done with this topic to be honest... we've beat it to death, and you clearly disagree with me on this last point. It's really too bad that you've had the experience you've had, and NO DOUBT that there are idiots everywhere, including those espousing science. From my viewpoint it's just not that important in comparison to historical accounts of the Catholic Church alone to be honest.
I'll give ONE example. TO THIS DAY they claim you need to get absolved from your sins by a priest... he must be involved officially or god doesn't forgive you. I challenge you to find ANYTHING even REMOTELY close to the control and dare I say "spiritual abuse" through creation of guilt that any scientific theory, journal article, etc. has propogated... for what, a thousand years??
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