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I went to catholic school (didn’t stick I’m a atheist now) but I never felt like I lacked scientific understanding cuz of religion. School never forced that idea on us idk if all religious schools were the same but I’m starting to think it’s the parents
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That horrible OU “essay” is proof we are in dire need of atheist education
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Anonymous 3w

The Catholics tend to be a lot better about this than Evangelicals because Catholics don’t have a literalist interpretation of The Bible the way Evangelicals do. This is why Catholics feel like they’re catching strays when Americans talk about “Christians” being anti-science/anti-intellectual. Because we mean the Evangelicals, we don’t mean the Catholics, or even most mainline Protestants.

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Anonymous 3w

As someone who also went to a catholic school I think the Catholic Church tends to be more intellectual and scholarly than a lot of other denominations. I mean it’s literally a point of pride that a Catholic Saint coined the Big Bang theory, Saint Thomas Aquinas is one of the most notable philosophers in history, etc.

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Anonymous 3w

It really depends on the school and the parental figures

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Anonymous 3w

my school was baptist and we were not taught evolution or sex ed lol

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Anonymous replying to -> cheese_of_the_world_unite 3w

For example, if you go to a Catholic School, they’re gonna accurately teach you about evolutionary biology, because the Catholic line on evolution is “evolution is real, and guided by the hand of God.” An Evangelical Christian School, on the other hand, is gonna strawman evolution and teach “creation science” alongside it, because evolution is incompatible with Biblical Literalism.

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Anonymous replying to -> cheese_of_the_world_unite 3w

This is true. I was never tought to believe the Bible was a record book of history instead stories with a message. My teachers straight up said there was no floor or ark it’s just a story but some Christians actually believe that

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

Yeah, some Christians believe that the Bible is literally true, the Earth is 6000 years old, and that modern science is devilish trickery meant to turn people from Christ. My girlfriend was raised in a Young Earth Creationist family, homeschooled until 7th grade, and when the homeschool mom group took their kids to the museum, she straight up overheard one of the other kids’ moms denying the existence of dinosaurs while her kid looked at the bones. Shit is insane.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 3w

She’d also never been to a planetarium until I took her to Chicago and we went to the one there, and she figured out why she’d never been as soon as we were in the exhibit that was the timeline of the universe as understood by modern science, and it said shit was ~14 billion years old. Evangelicals really give the whole Christian faith a bad name with their asinine behavior and constant denials of modern science.

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Anonymous replying to -> woodyguthrie 3w

but baptists are simply smoking motherfucking crack so

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Anonymous replying to -> woodyguthrie 3w

Oh yea I got sex ed too in catholic school

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