What do you think of a religion based club?

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<p>Then why go to the catholic school?</p>

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<p>Mother’s choice. Also, the public schools in my district suck.</p>

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<p>Ouch. That must suck.</p>

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Well, religious physicists have given us the heliocentric model (Copernicus), the laws of motion (Newton), the basic principle of relativity (Galileo), the special theory of relativity (Einstein), the Big Bang (Lema</p>

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<p>Hey Dolorous, didn’t you say you weren’t in high school? Because if you aren’t why are you in HSL? And my thread?</p>

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Just graduated high school the other day, actually. But hey, totally a good point to make when someone effectively counters all your complaints. Incidentally, seems like some of the most active posters here aren’t in high school.</p>

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<p>High school students can post in the parents forum, and non-high school students can post in the high school forum.</p>

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<p>Yes, but all of those physicists were children of their respective times. You could add Mendel, Bacon and even Darwin, in his younger days (or deathbed, if you like conspiracy theories), to that list of scientists.</p>

<p>I’m actually surprised that most people were given a choice of what high-school they wanted to attend. I wasn’t. </p>

<p>Honestly, though, the religious “brainwashing” isn’t the real issue–it’s the blatant hypocrisy. Nobody at my school wants to go to church on a Wednesday. Nobody cares for prayer. Kids smoke pot in the bathroom and grind at winter formal just like they would at any other school. Student for student, we probably have more “baby mommas” than any of the giant public schools in the area. </p>

<p>Not to mention the fact that we have to take x number of religious credits. I don’t mind religion, really. Usually, I can just block out the stupidity. But when it starts to waste my time, that’s when I get MAD.</p>

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<p>Wow. A senior fighting with a freshman. Cool. And you “effectively countering” my points was talking about some scientists that were religious because of what time they were born in. But please continue to post here. You will anyway.</p>

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<p>I will say though, Dan the Man, it’s probably not so horrifying as it seems. A religious club can put posters up in the hallway inviting people to a bakesale or something, and nobody’s going to be fooled into converting. Lol. </p>

<p>My guess is that it’s probably just a means for someone to pad their resume and meet people like themselves. If the kids at my school, raised on the Catholic kool-aid and forced into a religious Alcatraz, aren’t going to be convinced that prayers and alms-giving are the pathway to eternal life, I doubt the kids at your school will be.</p>

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There were plenty of atheists in Einstein’s and Lema</p>

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<p>Me growing up? Oh I have four years to actually. You happen to be a senior, who has graduated, and still feels the need to “come down to
My level”. Obviously I could grow up, but so could you actually.</p>

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So why post this if you’re just going to criticize the people who argue with you for coming down to your admittedly childish level? Seems kind of idiotic, but maybe I’m missing the point.</p>

<p>As for the actual argument that you have abandoned, I’ll take your silence as compliance and be glad that you have seen the error of your hateful ways.</p>

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<p>1) childish because I am a child. Not a legal adult.
2) I posted to hear what other people thought, but some went to far.
3)I started to agree a while ago, but again some people go a little too far.</p>

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<p>Yes, but I feel like for the kids who don’t understand the physics, it’s TOO much easier for them to forget about it and blindly accept the religious POV. That’s not to say that one can’t be an amazing physicist and hold religious beliefs but to express them (not in class, but at school events and school gatherings) and not clearly make the distinction between fact and religion is foolish and misleading.</p>

<p>Another thing, I have no idea in the slightest how it somehow became popular to “spiritualize” everything scientific. The other day I heard a preacher telling about God’s fourth person–the “Cosmic Christ.” </p>

<p>Usually, when someone is more d-bag than scientist, they tend to focus a lot more on the spiritual aspect of the universe in its relation to mankind and less on the known research. Atoms don’t have a conscious. There isn’t a “great spirit” travelling through photons and bits of matter, like the Force giving the universe its life energy. I feel like men made this spiritual crap up in order to get women to put out. </p>

<p>The only difference between your typical chauvinist and the spiritual preacher is that the latter actually BELIEVES the garbage he’s spewing. Lol.</p>

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<p>^if you lived by me we could be such good friends, Wis</p>

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<p>This picture describes some of the posts in this thread.
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The militant spiritualists are annoying, as are the militant atheists. When you get to the point where you’re shoving your ideology down other people’s throats, it’s annoying, regardless of what that ideology is.</p>

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You’re past the age of reason, you should be able to hold a logical conversation/argument.</p>

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By disagreeing with you?</p>

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You agreed that there was no problem with them starting a religious club? Cool, glad to hear it.</p>

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<p>Lawl, why don’t we have any rational atheists anymore?</p>

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I know, it’s annoying. Maybe the Science vs. Religion thread did it.</p>