The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible. -Mark Twain The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture. -Richard Dawkins The problem in our society and in our schools is to inculcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere—to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. -Joseph Campbell Today, especially in the United States, there is a taboo against admitting that there are enormous numbers of stupid and ignorant people, in the bookish and literal sense of these words. They may be highly intelligent in the arts of farming, manufacture, engineering and finance, and even in physics, chemistry or medicine. But this intelligence does not automatically flow over to the fields of history, archaeology, linguistics, theology, philosophy and mythology which are what one needs to know in order to make any sense out such archaic literature as the books of the Bible. -Alan Watts The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in the schools of America. -Richard Dawkins “Water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. What if someone says, Well, thats not how I choose to think about water.? All we can do is appeal to scientific values. And if he doesnt share those values, the conversation is over. If someone doesnt value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesnt value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?” -Sam Harris
Posted on: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 12:54:06 +0000
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