And this is a school run by evil Pearson who controls all the textbooks, so that’s a bit of a comfort even as America’s educational standards slip down the tubes.
And this is a school run by evil Pearson who controls all the textbooks, so that’s a bit of a comfort even as America’s educational standards slip down the tubes.
Raised in a religious community, the closest we got in our high school was Earth Science and Biology (this one was taught by a christian fellow, too). I wasn’t exposed to Evolutionary discussion until college.
I had an anti-science argument with my counselor and tried to opt out of Earth Science in my first year. She said “you just have to take it”. I was at that stage where I was afraid to challenge my beliefs.
Within the next 4 years, I was agnostic. During college, and through an anthropology class, it was clear I was ill-informed.
At this point, I also wouldn’t consider my self “atheist”, because the community around it (on Reddit) became it’s own sort of religion that spent their days bashing on (primarily) christians. Religion, to me, is no more than parables that teach good morals.
The people on /r/Atheism are coming at things as getting away from oppression and abuse at the hands of religious communities. And they’re a small portion of atheists, not really representative of “the community”…which doesn’t really exist
Ftfy.