Comments on: Yes, folks, it isn’t just the priests engaged in the whole child abuse in the name of religion thing https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/08/04/yes-folks-it-isnt-just-the-pri/ Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:08:26 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: cdrealist https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/08/04/yes-folks-it-isnt-just-the-pri/#comment-521406 Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:08:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/08/04/yes-folks-it-isnt-just-the-pri/#comment-521406 I think the people in the church weren’t looking at this kid as a preacher but as a toddler showing off for his parents’ friends, and they were helping him along. With further encouragement, he might become a preacher, because he has the act down already, but nobody in that room thought he was really preaching.

I’ll agree that teaching this kind of religion is harmful to the kid, but I don’t think encouraging this toddler to imitate his preacher, who might, for all I know, be his daddy, is any worse than teaching kids that homosexuality is a sin of choice, and that God created the earth and animals in 6 days.

And you gotta admit, the kid is good.

]]> By: CRM-114 https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/08/04/yes-folks-it-isnt-just-the-pri/#comment-521405 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:06:58 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/08/04/yes-folks-it-isnt-just-the-pri/#comment-521405 It takes only minutes for a toddler to become a popular theologian. It takes decades for a dedicated student to become a respected scientist. This shows the fundamental difference between religion and science: one is making shit up, the other if finding things out.

]]> By: Wowbagger https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/08/04/yes-folks-it-isnt-just-the-pri/#comment-521404 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:20:28 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/08/04/yes-folks-it-isnt-just-the-pri/#comment-521404

That’s just child abuse. How could they believe that baby is saying anything meaningful. They are delusional.

They also believe that the most important knowledge humanity would ever need was given to a bunch of superstitious goat-herders over two and a half thousand years ago – I can’t say I’m all that surprised.

]]> By: elle https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/08/04/yes-folks-it-isnt-just-the-pri/#comment-521403 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 08:59:41 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/08/04/yes-folks-it-isnt-just-the-pri/#comment-521403 i wonder what his daddy does for living?

]]> By: gwen https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/08/04/yes-folks-it-isnt-just-the-pri/#comment-521402 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:08:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/08/04/yes-folks-it-isnt-just-the-pri/#comment-521402 That’s just child abuse. How could they believe that baby is saying anything meaningful. They are delusional.

]]> By: Zach Voch https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/08/04/yes-folks-it-isnt-just-the-pri/#comment-521401 Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:31:19 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/08/04/yes-folks-it-isnt-just-the-pri/#comment-521401 This makes me angry… I have Marjoe in mind… It takes a good bit of abusive conditioning to reduce little kids and babies to this.

]]> By: wrpd https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/08/04/yes-folks-it-isnt-just-the-pri/#comment-521400 Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:02:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/08/04/yes-folks-it-isnt-just-the-pri/#comment-521400 That baby makes more sense than most fundi-pentecostal preachers.

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