John 20:29 "Then Jesus told him, 'Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed'.”
Human knowledge has progressed exponentially since the dawn of modern science. It is no longer reasonable to accept claims without sufficient objective evidence. The harm from religion, alternatives to medicine, conservatism, and all other false beliefs will be exposed on this blog by reporting the findings of science. This blog will also reinforce what should be the basics of education: History, Civics, Financial Literacy, Media Literacy, and Critical/Science Based Thinking.
Friday, July 26, 2024
Christianity Wants You To Accept Claims Without Questioning
John 20:29 "Then Jesus told him, 'Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed'.”
Saturday, March 16, 2024
The Conservative Idea Of Education
It is bad enough that the culture generally accepts childhood religious indoctrination, but this is WAY beyond the pale:
CREEPY Republican Selling Trump Propaganda To KidsThursday, February 22, 2024
Religious Indoctrination Is Child Abuse: The Research
Saturday, June 17, 2023
Who Should Control Books In Libraries?
Click on the link below for an analysis regarding what organization(s) should be controlling what you can or cannot read in public sources:
Let's talk about the Illinois book ban ban....Friday, May 12, 2023
The Value Of Reaching Out To The Other Side
In 2020, 31% of voters identified as Democrats, 25% identified as Republicans, and 41% identified as Independents. If you split the Independents down the middle, with 50% voting for either, the Democrats would always win. But that is not what happens. There are more conservatives than progressives in the Independents, thus, the voting is much closer than what would be reflected in a 50 - 50 split. Most rural voters live by progressive economic principles but tend to vote Republican. Why? Could Democrats aren't talking to the rural folks enough and making some wrong assumptions?
Click on this link for a 6-minute video to better understand that the Democrats need to do some serious leg work within the rural communities of the USA to convince that voting segment that the Democratic Party offers more to them. Seems to me that critical thinking skills need to permeate into opinions formed through indoctrination.
Saturday, December 17, 2022
Religious Indoctrination Of Children: A Harm Society Denies
"I am talking about moral and religious education. And especially the education a child receives at home, where parents are allowed—even expected—to determine for their children what counts as truth and falsehood, right and wrong.
"Children, I’ll argue, have a human right not to have their minds crippled by exposure to other people’s bad ideas—no matter who these other people are. Parents, correspondingly, have no god-given license to enculturate their children in whatever ways they personally choose: no right to limit the horizons of their children’s knowledge, to bring them up in an atmosphere of dogma and superstition, or to insist they follow the straight and narrow paths of their own faith."
Thursday, November 3, 2022
Exploding Myths In Culture, Science, And Psychology
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Childhood Indoctrination: The Evil
I have posted many times on the harm of indoctrinating children into any religion (link). In essence, calling subjective experience/intuition evidence of a god to a young impressional mind blunts the reasoning ability of the child and makes the victim malleable to harmful ideology (link).
Please take a half-hour of your time and click on the link below for a video exposing the thinking and actions of Christian apologists regarding how and why they poison young minds into unsupported and harmful dogma.
Thursday, April 21, 2022
Children Are Not The Property Of Parents
To listen to conservative parents one would think that they have the right to indoctrinate their children into the same beliefs that they have (link). Such thinking is child abuse. Children are not the "property" of their parents (link)(link), in spite of the historical treatment of them as such (link).
Friday, April 15, 2022
Christianity: Education Or Indoctrination?
Monday, November 22, 2021
This Is Not Education, It Is Ignorant Ideological Reaction To Such
In recent years, there has been a movement by conservatives and some misguided liberals to discredit the US Higher Education system by cherry-picking some inappropriate constraint on free speech. One manifestation of this reactionary movement has been the formation of the so-called "Intellectual Dark Web." Click on the link below to see a new manifestation of this faulty ideology:
Do We Really Need an Anti-Woke University?Wednesday, August 25, 2021
A Parent's Guide To Teaching About God
Virtually all theists with children indoctrinate them into their religious dogma as soon as they can. Why? Are they so weak in their faith that they want to shelter their children from thinking for themselves? Answer: OF COURSE!!! Click on the link below for a guide to raising children to be loving, responsible, and independent thinkers.
Friday, January 1, 2021
A Catholic Apologist Exposed
This Catholic apologist talks about truth and evidence as if there were no science in our reality. Take a 1/2 hour to get into his mind and understand the level of indoctrination and subsequent ignorance that society HAS to marginalize if it ever is to thrive.
Monday, October 12, 2020
If A Statement Feels Good, Does That Make It True?
"If you repeat something enough times, it comes to feel good and true."
The above statement is a key to understanding the success of both advertisements and indoctrination. Click on the link below for a brief video showing that the ways information is presented to us can significantly affect how we interpret such.
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Indoctrination Vs Critical Thinking
"Emphasizing open-mindedness and intellectual humility can help ensure you won’t indoctrinate students, even on subjects you feel strongly about. Of course, you have political views, and students know that. You can tell your students, as I do mine, that you will work to ensure that your views do not influence your evaluation of their progress in the course." (link)