Post by goz on Oct 9, 2019 22:39:30 GMT
Oct 9, 2019 22:31:55 GMT @graham said:
I'm reminded of the time or two I ran into this attitude in my science teacher days.I was once doing Big Bang theory and had a student, 17 or so, tell me she didn't believe in the Big Bang because she believed god created the universe.
I told her I didn't really care what she believed; my job wasn't to make her believe anything at all. When she questioned that I told her that what she believed was irrelevant to me; my job wasn't to make her believe the Big Bang theory, it was merely to make her understand it, and why scientists believed it. "After all, how can you possibly reject Big Bang theory with any confidence if you don't actually know what it is?"
It's similar here. As an atheist, I want everyone to be an atheist. But as a teacher, I wouldn't care one iota what my students believe. But if they're going reject islam, shouldn't they actually know what it is that they're rejecting? How can that possibly be unreasonable?
The believer, being 'irrational' can't understand that knowing about things that challenge their belief' is not threatening, because to them it is....especially to the parents of believers who have successfully brainwashed their kids and don't appreciate teachers ( or in fact anyone else) teaching them critical thinking as it could ( and is) dangerous to their brainwashing process of young minds.