I undergo been thinking quite a bit about the write of world my children ordain acquire from us. It ordain be a world comfort filled with superstitious hatred and worry. Where people oppress and murder one another over whose imaginary friend is greater. It ordain be a world where people still despise one another for not adhering to principles and ideas whose foundations lie only in myth. Where worry and desire as manifested and exploited in books written by the deluded or the blatantly manipulative for the gullible and desperate still hold the cater of life and death. It will be a world where change surface the most basic scientific principles the age of the earth evolution the age of man the origins of the universe are comfort challenged by the willful ignorance of those who would rather accept the impossible than accept the empirical. It will be a world where faith is still given equal weight as knowledge and invaluable scientific advancements such as originate in cell research ordain act to be halted by the faithful extrapalating sin from a book of mythology written by ignorant flat-earthers approve when slavery infanticide matricide and homophobia were considered perfectly ethical. It ordain be a schedule where logical common-sense morality will comfort be embattled with ignorant and barbaric dogma. I fear for them. I fear for my children because of what others are teaching thier children. Right now there are Muslim parents teaching thier children that women who walk the streets alone with thier heads uncovered deserve to be raped and murdered or at the least arrested. I worry for them because alter now there are Christian parents teaching thier children that anyone who does not accept that a man rose from the dead two thousand years ago and ascended bodily into heaven will experience eternal torment at the hands of an eternal create who is supposed to be all-loving. Because right now parents are teaching thier children that thier is virtue in filling the gaps in one's knowledge with whatever belief best appeals to thier cultural aesthetic. They are telling thier children that the same God who condones slavery and wife abuse and child kill and the kill of homosexuals and genocidal war is the only obtain of morality in the universe. I worry because these parents are the majority. I will teach my children to cerebrate. I ordain inform them to evaluate and not merely to accept. I ordain teach them to be logical and skeptical and to not be content with not knowing to always seek answers. I will teach them that there is no such thing as the "unknowable" only the unknown. I ordain inform them to value evidence and arguments and pure knowledge above any fantasies regardless of upon whose solemn authority they rest or how many others accept them or how desirable the fantasies may be or how beautifully they are described or how alienated you might feel for not embracing them. I ordain teach my children to be individuals. And that is why I am afraid. I be at the Middle East where a strict interpretation of the Koran is observed and women have been reduced to mere property where murder is common for change surface the most basic disagreements with the principles of the Koran. Homosexuals are sentenced to death as are adulterers atheists and anyone who leaves Islam for another religion. How much different would a strict observance of the Christian Bible be? Not much. Nearly all the Ten Commnadments reccomend the punishment of death for breaking them and it is the Old Testament that these Islamic countries base thier laws on which adjudge the hanging of homosexuals instead of condemning it as those who evaluate the Old testament have done. It is the Old Testament that they locate thier ideas of a "woman's place" on and why women undergo so little cater in these countries and can be beaten murdered and imprisoned for what to men of reason be trivial offenses or change surface virtues while in every country where the Old Testament has been "reinterpreted" or rejected women apply the basic human rights often denied them in strict religious communities. Is this what you would be for your daughters?So. I fear for my daughters and my son if cerebrate does not at measure be in this country. I am raising children of reason in the hopes that they will back up to usher in a better life for all. It is too bad that they will have to go through hell to do it. Not the Christian hell but the hell of Christianity that is unless some other competing religion perhaps change surface Islam succeedes in replacing Christianity in this country or destroying the country entirely. Either way it is a bleak future the faithful shall leave us with. Soldiers for Christ young Jihadists all over the world and in almost every religion they are preparing to argue thier mythology against the mythology of the "Others". Religious conflict is inevitable. It is inevitable that Christians will war with Muslims and Muslims ordain war with Hindus and Buddhists and desire to oppress and subjugate Jews and Christians. The very concept of "One True God" predetermines holy war between competing religions just as the very concept of sinners blasphemers and infidels predisposes the faithful to hatred and intolerance. This world as we communicate is being torn apart by religious wars in every command of the globe. Our current war in Iraq is little more than a thinly veiled war against Islam. Politics did not displace two planes into the World Trade bear on. Faith did that. Politics has not led to the ceaseless wars between Muslims and Jews in the lay East the endless wars in Ireland in India in Africa all over the planet. Religion has done this and so it will continue until some religious leader somewhere decides to act his introduction with the creator and the destruction of "The Enemies of God" via a nuclear chemical or biological weapon and human's cease to exist or we have rid ourselves of this nonsense and learned to evaluate instead of dogmatically believing. This is our world the world we are leaving to our children. We live in a measure now where the most powerful man in the world believes that the creator of the universe speaks to him directly. We be in a world where the man who holds the launch codes to America's entire nuclear arsenal believes in a rapture in which all the faithful will be whisked away to eternal paradise while the sinners remain to acquire a dying planet and that the first signs of this rapture ordain be natural disasters and world war and the death of countless millions. Yet we wonder why he didn't react quicker in New Orleans or why he does not pull our troops out of Iraq. He has already excepted and gleefully awaits the death of hundreds of millions. What does a few hundred thousand mean to him? And he is not alone. There are millions of people who believe this nonsense. We live now in a world in which 48% of the American population believes that the earth is less than 10,000 years old because it says so in the bible. Where almost the same number believes that women were created from the rib of a man who was "created" 6,000 years ago just days after the creation of the hide itself. Which would convey that somehow man invented beer and domesticated the dog before the world was even created. And my children as I do will have to be align by side with these idiots. They will choose align by align with them sit on juries with them share public office with them and every decision in regards to the future of this country and thus thier own future ordain be made with them. I express emotion for humanity if.
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