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#610604
Amanda
It sounded dumb enough, and then I realized this person was a teacher. xD
8/2/2008 3:58:22 PM
#610614
Brain_In_A_Jar
Smart kids getting sent to the back of the class? Have I somehow crossed over into bizarro world?
8/2/2008 4:04:49 PM
#610616
apYrs
"suffer little children..", "out of the mouths of babes..."
if they can't give straight answers to their confined and brainwashees, what hope with grown ups
8/2/2008 4:05:03 PM
#610631
If by smartass she meant 'smarter than me', then she was indeed correct. When you start having to make excuses for your belief, you know something is wrong.
8/2/2008 4:12:52 PM
#610633
Quantum Mechanic
Reminds me why I dropped out of Baylor.
8/2/2008 4:14:16 PM
#610640
Thundersqueaks
Yeah, that's the way to teach children. Punish them for your own ignorance.
8/2/2008 4:19:32 PM
#610664
John
He was probably better off being sent to the back of the room. At least he didn't have to sit through some stupid explanation about how they died off after the "water canopy" disappeared.
8/2/2008 4:44:23 PM
#610665
Berny
I had the same question when I first heard about Adam and Eve in school. The difference was I asked my parents when I got home, not the teacher.
They told me Genesis was a fairy tale and wasn't meant to be taken literally. Science had learned a great deal since the writers of the Bible had penned that story.
I've always appreciated the fact I didn't grow up with fundies.
8/2/2008 4:46:44 PM
#610671
Osiris
Welcome to religion, where dissent will not be tolerated.
8/2/2008 5:07:55 PM
#610693
aaa
Kid, i salute you!
8/2/2008 5:30:48 PM
#610694
Mike
Thinking is bad! Blind faith awesome!
8/2/2008 5:31:37 PM
#610700
solomongrundy
Ah, the old appeal to faith (or the admission that what you claim to believe makes no sense).
8/2/2008 5:34:50 PM
#610710
approximate
Memories of Religion class at Catholic school(s).
Everybody knows the saying, "better to be a smartass than a dumbass", but it bears repeating here.
8/2/2008 5:53:24 PM
#610726
Papabear
Well, Jeez! How could he have been a smart kid when he asked an uncomfortable question?
8/2/2008 6:16:24 PM
#610731
WMDKitty
That's about how Sunday School went for me, except it was the Catholic version.
8/2/2008 6:19:33 PM
#610820
Moon Wolfhowl
That's just horrible. A kid asks the most basic question of "why?" and gets smacked down.
8/2/2008 7:19:31 PM
#610862
Old Viking
They don't like questions.
8/2/2008 7:43:31 PM
#610867
Mayhem
Calling you smart was probably the only truthful thing she ever said in that class.
8/2/2008 7:45:33 PM
#610912
The more you're with children, the more you look like them. For better or worse.
8/2/2008 8:18:33 PM
#611241
Taught him to use the word 'reason' in the presence of Christians!
8/2/2008 11:31:42 PM
#611254
Allegory for Jesus
Yeah...seems like "DINOSAURZ!?!?!" is a real stumbling block for Bible literalists. I am not really sure why, but it is like fundie kryptonite.
8/2/2008 11:37:53 PM
#611617
Saika
oh nosss! smartness! you're going to hell now!
8/3/2008 4:03:43 AM
#611699
Jay-Sus
Both you and that teacher are retarded. She's retarded for not answering the questio and you're retarded for believing that dinosaurs lived in a fictional garden with fictional people.
8/3/2008 5:38:53 AM
#611705
haywood jablomy
Reminds me of George Carlin (RIP) reminiscing about his school days - in a Catholic school in NYC - on his album "Class Clown." The priests at Carlin's school encouraged the students to ask questions, and to question authority. Obviously the reason he turned out so cool, IMHO.
8/3/2008 5:44:57 AM
#611711
Antichrist
Yeah, the days before the Internet, when Sunday School teachers couldn't just log into their favorite fundies site to find an answer for the tough questions.
Consider yourself lucky, I was dragged to a chair in the middle of the church where all the men prayed to cast the demon out of me. It did teach me to keep my mouth shut.
8/3/2008 5:49:36 AM
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