bluewaterrider
Senior Member
Re: Re: Christian. Would you teach your child to use a scapegoat at school?
Originally posted by Shakyamunison
I agree with you.
As a parent, safeguarding our children is more important then explaining everything to them.
Intent is everything.
I can't quite agree with intent being everything.
Intentions matter, and matter a great deal, but they are not the whole of a story.
We DO both agree that safeguarding our children is more important than explaining everything to them.
For starters, for children of a certain age at least,
it's not always possible to explain a thing well enough for them to take appropriate action in response.
Incidentally, were you to find a way to view that video clip I posted
(say by ... borrowing a friend's iPhone?),
you'd probably find yourself agreeing with deGrasse Tyson's argument, too.
Actually, since it's short enough,
I'll transcribe the relevant portion of his response here for you:
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"I'm not an "ism" ...
I think for myself.
The moment when someone attaches you to a philosophy or a movement,
then they assign all the baggage and all the rest of the philosophy that goes with it TO you,
and when you want to have a conversation,
they will assert, that they already know everything important there is to know about you,
because of that association.
And that's not the way to have a conversation
I'm sorry. It's not."
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzSMC5rWvos
(Neil deGrasse Tyson answering an atheist/theist question)