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Originally Posted by bobdog
owever, I think you are an excellent example of why we shouldn't teach religion to anyone until they are old enough to understand the arguments. If you had been taught as a child how to think for yourself, rather than being indoctrinated by the Roman Catholic beliefs, you would not need to do all this 'sole' (soul) searching now.
Teach people to think 'clearly' rather than to think 'what you want them to think'.
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The point is good, insofar as there are two kinds of education: Rote Memory and Critical Thought, and that the latter is deeply underserved. However, my soul searching here, such as it is, has only as much to do with Christianity as it does with religion in general. I am coming at it from the angle of Christianity because I am less likely to misquote the bible than the Bhagavad Gita, but I hope I am looking for commonalities.
Based on what I have read of Dawkins, his writings don't really enter into what I am trying to pick at here. He's sure it's a non issue. That's fine and well, but I'm looking at, if it were an issue, what would that mean? "Nothing," is a perfectly valid answer, but not one that helps me play with the idea.
/ And if you think this sounds like mental masturbation, you're close. More like curls, though.