Rant

So I saw these bumper stickers on a car yesterday. The first one said "don't pray in our schools and we won't think in your church" an underneath that was "got science?" I am going to rant for a bit because it struck me as ignorant and I am tired of the morons on both side of this issue. The message that this idiot is trying to get across is one that has been going back and forth for awhile now. The belief that you can believe in logic/science OR you can believe in God. Fucking idiocy! The bumper sticker implies that if you pray then you don't belong in school. And that if you think (read: are intelligent) then you don't go to church. Basically it's a bumper sticker that implies if you believe in God you must be a moron. Go fuck yourself sir! This fight belongs in the south where you have Christians on one side saying we need prayer in school and children need to be taught creationism and not evolution. It's a stupid argument on BOTH sides. This country is founded on freedom of religion or more specifically freedom from religious persecution. We also have a separation of church and state. So a school forcing children to pray (most likely a Christian prayer) is legally wrong. What if some of the children are Muslim,Jewish,Buddhist, etc.? Is it right to make them pray a Christian prayer in a public school? No, it's not only wrong it is in fact illegal under the rules of church and state. Now atheists, don't get all smug. I am not done. This country also has a first amendment which give us all the freedom of speech. So if a child in school wants to pray alone or with his/her friends he has every right to do that too. No one can tell that child that he/she cannot do that. Anyway. In the south there is a debate between Christians and evolutionists as to what should be taught in schools as far as the creation of the universe. Guess what? No one knows!!!! Evolution is a theory. It's based on Darwin's principles and interpretations of his findings and theories regarding life. Well hate to break this to you all but Darwin was just a man. And as a man he is fallible. He took what he saw and made conclusions. Is he right? Who knows? He thought so and he has followers that believe him. The bible says that God created the heavens and the earth in 6 days. Is that right? No one knows!!! Unless you ARE God you cannot answer that unequivocally. As a Christian you take it on faith that its true as its what the bible says but can you KNOW that it really happened that way? No, you cannot. And anyone that says they can is at least misguided and at worst a liar. Faith and certainty are not the same. Faith is believing in something you cannot prove. Also I'm sure that other religions have they're own take on how we came to be here. Now should evolution be taught in school? I don't know. Darwin did exist an he did come up with this theory. I don't know why that cannot be taught as it is factual. I would say though that to say "listen up children. This IS how the universe was formed and man evolved from a primordial soup." is to lie to our youth because as I said before it cannot be proven. For the record I am a Christian albeit not the best. I don't go to church like I should, I swear (obviously), and I don't always do the right thing. That being said my faith and belief in God is unwavering. Getting back to mister shit head with the bumper sticker. For someone to believe that believers are stupid and that an intelligent person or scientist has no place in their life for God is just insulting and infantile. I don't know why people need to believe that these 2 things are mutually exclusive. I am sure there are scientists that believe in God. And I am sure there are believers that are very intelligent. To have that viewpoint that NO prayer belongs in school is infuriating. I am sure that those poor little kids who were in the middle of the Sandy Hook tragedy were comforting themselves by focusing on the velocity and the angle of the bullets traveling toward them…… oh wait they were probably screaming for their parents and praying for help. But no, prayer never belongs in school and only morons go to church.
Sorry this is all over the place but this "science or God" argument is garbage.



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