more good points.

If we accept someone else’s concept of “God” on faith, then we are allowing them to do our thinking for us. If people are inadequately educated and/or incapable of thinking for themselves and defining their own god, in their own terms, to their own purposes, then I suppose that is the best they can do. Unthinking people (the ignorant masses) have always believed what thinking people, (the king and the priests) have told them what they should believe, and how they should behave. It is not difficult to imagine why so many educated people have rejected that kind of intellectual and emotional manipulation.

Will we educate our children with the highest level of our modern, int...

more good points.

If we accept someone else’s concept of “God” on faith, then we are allowing them to do our thinking for us. If people are inadequately educated and/or incapable of thinking for themselves and defining their own god, in their own terms, to their own purposes, then I suppose that is the best they can do. Unthinking people (the ignorant masses) have always believed what thinking people, (the king and the priests) have told them what they should believe, and how they should behave. It is not difficult to imagine why so many educated people have rejected that kind of intellectual and emotional manipulation.

Will we educate our children with the highest level of our modern, intellectual knowledge base, or indoctrinate them with ancient, and archaic biases, prejudices and religio-political agendas derived from a tribal mind set to solve the problems they will face in the 21st century?