• Absurdly Stupid @lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    There are something like 10 million students attending Christian school and the like, and another 5 million or so being home schooled.

    They don’t really believe in the scientific method and critical thinking, in general. At least in my experience as a student of a Christian school. I had no idea.

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      2 hours ago

      Gets me wondering which type of “Christian”.

      Reminds me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8swSkk9yeV8 .

      There are many christians (not of that^ ilk) who very much are into the sciences, and are undogmatic in their approach to either religion or science. … Which was a surprise to me and my teenage militant aitheism that had swallowed the false dichotomy whole.

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        2 hours ago

        Here’s the rub… those practical moderates FUEL the fanatics (donations and tithing), and they also provide the fundamentalists with a smoke screen of respectability.

        They’re a huge part of the problem. The fundies depend on the moderates.