Tales of an Aspergian Bus Driver

The new tactics to "Kill Christianity"

In my online travels, I've noticed a new trend in the "Anti-Christianity" movement. I've only seen it in the past month or two, but I have no doubt it's been around for ages. Here's a heads up on it.

The general idea seems to be the following:
"Due to the fact that [children are impressionable/I had bad experiences with having religion forced on me], it is a bad idea to expose children to any religion before the age of 13 or 14. Before this time, they are unable to make objective decisions, and may be swayed by their upbringing. Once children reach the age where they can make their own decisions, they should be exposed to religion by having a balanced approach, where all religions are presented, and children can make their own decision."

Since defeating Christians doesn't seem to be working very well, the next best thing is to cut off future Christians, all the while saying "it's for their own good." Hopefully, by the time children reach their teenage years, they will have been told that there is no God enough times that they will just laugh off religion as "that silly stuff old people believe in." Just in case that doesn't work, if they're exposed to all religions as equally valid, they should be too confused to make any decisions, and just go back to their existing lifestyle (knowledgeable about all things as taught in school, including gay sexual practices, which should be taught along with normal sex-ed stuff, according to some people).

I expect to see this argument appear more and more frequently in the near future. Having thought about it before running across it wouldn't be a bad idea.

The argument obviously requires the assumption that all religions are false, and just "tools to control weakminded people." It would also seem to have the convenient side effect of eliminating all religious schools in favor of the "superior" public education system.

Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Note, train. Not just teach head knowledge.

I've also seen a few other interesting points brought up lately regarding Christianity and "proving" it's false. One that I found particularly interesting was a statement that "The Bible says Pi = 3. This is false, therefore the Bible is false." A few links discussing this (and the fact that the Bible can be looked at in the Hebrew to show Pi was only 0.00026% away from today's value, or the fact that when other passages regarding the vessel are looked at, the measurements make perfect sense, or the fact that when giving general dimensions of a vessel round numbers work well) are following.

A nice look at the math in the original Hebrew
A look at the actual likely profile of the vessel
Or, just ask Google what it knows

I really try not to get involved in online arguments on religion, but every now and then I find a fascinating bit of data, or a finger on emerging trends worth sharing.

-=Russ=-