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eulero83 -> RE: Children exposed to religion have difficulty distinguishing fact from fiction (7/21/2014 1:55:43 AM)
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ORIGINAL: FieryOpal
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ORIGINAL: eulero83
The problem with educating yourself is, as a person living in the XXI century, you simply can not understand the rethoric and simbolism of the bronze age, in the scriptures there is written a good and holy man offers for a gang rape his doughters to sedate an angry mob, I hope no presbyters take that suggestion litterally, but I don't know how many begin to study the history and social enviroment of those cultures in order to understand what that's really ment to teach. I think in the USA you don't have many medieval churches, but if you traveled or read about them you'll know they all have paintings depicting biblical characters and usually animals, in a time where almost no one could read those images had a very clear meaning and were there to educate people, to us are just old art and without being spoonfed by an art historyan what those allegories meant there is noway I could tell myself. This makes me think, if being born in a time where alfabethization is the norm I can't understand what was clear for a peasant 1000 years ago how can I correctly understand the meaning of a text in the words of a 3000 years ago person?
This is the same problem when I hear the sentence: "I'm not a scientist, but I thought about it and I believe..." this only means you are so ignorant you don't even realize how complicated is the issue, and to reconnect with the OP this is an attitude found in people with strong religious believes. The good thing with having been spoonfed during catechism is you do not adapt your believs to your personal bias brainwashing yourself, but growing up you can realize how meaningless those precepts are and move on more easily.
I understand your point, but nobody *gave* me a classical education. I just happened to be a voracious reader with a fire in my belly to seek out knowledge. This was before the Information Age and the Internet. Old school.
It also helps to have a love for social studies, ancient history, archaeology, cultural anthropology, mythology and comparative religions, among other subjects.
Our ancestors, some of whom may have been illiterate peasants, have an excuse. In this day and age, our children and contemporaries do not. [:)]
Maybe I'm not understanding correctly what you meant, but using the peasant example was to say a language based on images that for them was cristal clear to me the only mening is just a nice drawing unless someone don't explain to me the message or I read it on a book (that means I'm accepting the author word).
So what I meant is martin luther was an ignorant and created an army of hepless disciples that really believe what's in the bible are facts as they are wrote, so they reject science, and it's kind of a portestant's peculiarity.
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