Featured Atheists and Liberals better than evangelicals

Ok well I knew you would not last long. I did not say that. As usual you put words in my mouth. I will leave you to your misery.

 

That is true. In fact, a stupid person ... stupid in the real meaning of the word ... cannot be educated. A stupid person does not know and cannot be educated to know whereas an ignorant person does not know but can be educated to know.

But the lack of a degree will leave a person ignorant in many fields in which they could have been educated. That is a waste of a mind and as the old saw goes, "A mind is a terrible thing to waste".

 

Please...both Old School Baptists I report into have advanced degrees....one in physics. His son, a pastor in Ohio holds a doctorate and runs a chemical plant. But I digress ....Old Schoolers are encouraged to spend time in the gospel each day & then we discuss them. Regarding edu....we encourage it totally. Where we differ from most Baptists is we believe the pastor is responsible for teaching the entire family together rather than send them to SS. Then its up to the parents to reinforce with the kids.

We are also big into home schooling. I am very proud to say that we are very family orientated and educated with an extremely low divorce rate.

BTW....we are Doctrines of Grace believers.

 

Ladies and Gentlemen, Classic Luke-ism post/thread!

Take several flawed premises:

"The more religious the state in America, the higher the divorce rate and the poorer educated it is."
"If your beliefs don't enable you to provide a home in America where your kids grow up to be very intelligent, capable contributors to society then your beliefs are not worth two cents."
"The fact is that generally speaking atheists lead more moral, more intelligent lives than most evangelicals."
"Atheists...raise kids better than evangelical Christians. Atheists are by and large better educated than church members...Atheists do not get divorced like church members "



Cite flawed studies and use personal anecdotes as if it applied to everyone:

"My state, Mississippi, is at the BOTTOM and I know why."


Claim superiority

"You are a very bitter person. Your personal problems with me are a spiritual problem for you."
"I helped over forty prisoners get their GED's last year. I offer after-school tutoring classes to children in our community."
"I don't think you used the word "behest" properly."
"Anybody with half a brain can see you said it."


Throw in some question begging:

"Why do you want people to keep their heads in the sand?"
"It is perfectly ok to you for Fundamentalists and Evangelicals to not seek to raise well educated children."


Repeat:
http://www.baptistboard.com/showthread.php?t=92692

Predictable as dirty socks on a coal miner.

 

What KIND of education do these atheists have. Perhaps they are professors of science in different universities holding various Ph.D.'s. So what if they have greater education in that respect. I would submit that many of our seminary educated pastors have an equivalent education without a Ph.D. but in the area and expertise in which they are trained.
Pastors are not biology majors, and Biology professors don't know a whit about the Bible. Thus the stats that Barna gives are skewed from the beginning.

 

:laugh: yea......grab your socks!

 

As I recall about this time last year Luke took off on a rant. I did a little looking and came up with one of my favorites:

Old folks who think they love old things

 

ROFL......whats startin to scare me is that I have a young niece that went down there to live.....but thats my brothers problem. The movie, "Deliverance" keeps flashin into my head however.

 

He also went on a rant against fundamentalism. But in the end he concluded that he was a fundamentalist also.

 

My oldest living brother and I were talking yesterday about the propensity of some folks to stereotype others. The movie "Deliverance" was mentioned. Then there is the OP!

 

Don't forget the shakers and quakers...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IFRQzUzb94

Can anybody spot the first time visitor?

 

Related "thinly'....but related.

Why in our culture is it acceptable to proudly admit that one cannot do even the simplest of mathematics?

 

Luke you are a very negative person. You need to start reading the Bible and learn to be positive.

 

I believe you are incorrect but thank God for dictionaries.

 

My soon to be 80 year old baby brother studied mathematics. He started out teaching but spent most of his career working at the Pentagon. After he retired he did substitute teaching on occasion. He said that if you took the calculators from the students they were lost. {Sort of like the Blackberry commercial of a couple of years back.}

I believe that Dr. Keith Ablow, the psychiatrist on Fox has stated it correctly. As I recall he insists part of our problem in this country is that we have too many gimmicks {for lack of a better word} and there is a lack of personal communication. People, especially the young, even if they have cell phones don't talk, they text. Then there are Facebook and You Tube where people spill all their secrets to the world including nude pictures of themselves. And there are hundreds of games and "apps" that occupy, actually waste, time. Young children and teenagers who should be out playing, doing something physical are playing games, texting, on iPhones, etc.

Even forums such as this one are problematic. We would never speak 'face to face' with each other as we do on this forum. Instead of discussing, communicating, we are shouting, often insulting each other, even if it is in "lower case" text!