(02-25-2011 12:58 AM)TJfan Wrote:  By the way, for a self-proclaimed agnostic, you seem to be very sympathetic to the xians yet extremely and irrationally anti-Islam.

I listen to Christians and Muslims. I've read both their books. Nothing irrational about my feeling for either group.

(02-24-2011 11:37 PM)TJfan Wrote:  I provided an example of how fundie education would be terrible in the video. Do you know how youtube works?

No you didn't.

You aren't the great arbiter of what's "terrible."

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Is the "great arbiter" the sky fairy, the zombie, or Casper?

(02-26-2011 01:50 AM)TJfan Wrote:  Is the "great arbiter" the sky fairy, the zombie, or Casper?

Could be any of them, all of them, or none of them. Depends on the context.

At least with respect to raising/educating children, the "great arbiter" should, generally, be the child's parents and/or legal guardians, and the role of the state should, generally, be to enable the parents to fulfill that role as completely as possible.

So children should be limited to achieving only the same level of educational failure as their parents? I would hope that, for example, Torch's kids would at least be exposed to 150 years of scientific advancement that he seems to have ignored.

(02-26-2011 02:27 AM)TJfan Wrote:  So children should be limited to achieving only the same level of educational failure as their parents?

They "should" not be so limited; I do not wish that for them; and I don't think it would happen as often as your question implies. But so far as the state's authority is concerned -- or at least, so far as my personal belief about the proper role and function of the state's authority is concerned -- I admit that sometimes it would happen. This admission is rooted in my belief that children belong to their parents and not to the state. I realize that has become a minority viewpoint in recent years, but I still believe it.