[concerning his his 5 year old son]
... I was not real sure if my son was grasping any of the information ... . Well, tonight at bedtime I realized that he has been getting a healthy dose of the truth... . He asked me why the scientists want to deceive people by telling lies about creation and dinosaurs. When I explained that if they admitted to the fact of God creating everything that [sic] they would have to face their own sin, my son thought about it for a second and then said, "Daddy I know what I am going to do when I get older and can read by myself ... I am going to go to the library and get all of the science books and erase all the lies in them." Needless to say I wept and thanked God for my son. ...
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For fuck sake - he is only 5 - stop living vicariously through him already. you failed in life - at least give the wee boy a chance, let him learn and then make his own decisions.
Alternatively - stop being a drama queen for jebus!
Way to teach him "right from wrong".
BTW, your bible tells you to respect the laws of the land, that would include the federal laws prohibiting wilful destruction of public property.
My son wants to destroy public property, YAY!
You know I think the bible it an extremely stupid piece of shit that has caused people to be killed and tortured. But if someone I knew said they wanted to go to a library and destroy them I would be very angry because I think destroying a book is wrong. The books in a library are for people who can't afford to buy the books themselves, it gives an opportunity to children whose parents can't or won't provide reading material.
You are a piece of shit.
Lesson, lying to your own child and encouraging vandalism are perfectly acceptable as long as they agree with your worldview. Unfortunately this poor kid is screwed. I feel sorry for him. Dollars to doughnuts they "homeschool" him too, just to compact the indoctrination.
Ya know, a person can believe in God, and believe that evolution is the process that He used to bring about life. Just because a person does not subscribe to the typical fundie creationist bullshit, or biblical infallibility and literalism, it does not mean they are any less of a Christian than you ass-hats.
I feel bad for your child, that you are denying him really exploring creation in all it's wonder. However, we can always use more burger flippers. Yes, I'd like fries with that.
fuck you, you child abusing, lying, brainwashing, worthless fuck.
Yep, worked out well for that one AiG employee. What was his name? Lionel Dahmer? Remember what his going on about the evils of homosexuality did to his kid?
Although it seems that he's gotten over it well enough to make a buck from the story by writing books.
@Clown:Mathew 21:17? "He entered the city of Bethany and lodged there." Funny, I've had a girlfriend called Bethany once. She was a fundy and that was our naughty code for sex, or I would have never heard of the Mathew 21:17...
Kids say all sorts of crap, I did.
Now lookit me!
BWAHAHAHAAAAA!
Ok...errr point is, your son may say crap like that now, but later in life he could be saying how full of shit you are (I hope so, in fact I hope he becomes a paleontologist!).
It's OK, he's probably being homeschooled- he'll never learn to read by himself.
BTW, you might want to point out that very few books are published in pencil.
So you have a normal 5 year old that repeats what his parent tells him. I remember when my 5 year old nephew came out with something about Jesus. My family thought it was a miracle, that he could repeat something like that, having only been exposed to it from the moment he was born.
He's too young yet, but soon you'll be able to show him how to flip burgers and wield a broom to the most effect. Then he'll have a head start and be more than ready for the job market. And when atheists command, "Hurry up with the burger my good man", he'll be able to jump to attention and flip like a champion.
Or the atheist might remonstrate, "I say, there's rather a mess on the floor here. Do something about it, would you, there's a good fellow"? And your son could rush along with his broom and sweep round the atheists feet in double-quick time.
God luck with the kid Mike.
"all of the science books and erase all the lies in them."
You guys seem to consider the bible a "science book". He can start there.
*insects have 4 legs
*bats are birds
*pi equals 3 (and that was stolen from the Greeks...albeit incorrectly)
*fish are not living
*men have a finite amount of "seed" within them that will dry up
*women are just incubators and don't contribute to the baby in any way, shape or form (speaking of the last two. IF they thought that a man would just inject a woman with a baby, why was it always the woman's fault when she delivered a daughter instead of a son?)
*rabbits chew their cud
*the earth is flat and is the centre of the universe
*the sun revolves around the earth
*the universe, the earth and all living things on it were created in 6 days
Sheesh...if he erased all the scientific lies in there it would only be about 1/2 page long!
It'll be hard for him to get any free time to edit those books when he's working a lot of overtime in a minimum wage job because he grew up to be a dumbshit. You should teach him this phrase instead: " do you want fries with that". It'll serve him better in the long run than your BS lies. Or you could stop brainwashing him and let him be his own person and not a narrow minded clone of yourself. Come on, it's your son's future not yours, stop being so fucking selfish.
My kindergarten teacher would "erase" the chalk board, and we had "erasers" on the backs of our pencils (what the Brits call "rubbers", snicker snicker) -- so, yes, "erase" is a perfectly believable word for a 5-year-old to use.
"I was not real sure if my son was grasping any of the information ... . Well, tonight at bedtime I realized that he has been getting a healthy dose of the truth... . He asked me why the scientists want to deceive people by telling lies about creation and dinosaurs. When I explained that if they admitted to the fact of God creating everything that [sic] they would have to face their own sin, my son thought about it for a second and then said, "Daddy I know what I am going to do when I get older and can read by myself ... I am going to go to the library and get all of the science books and erase all the lies in them." Needless to say I wept and thanked God for my son."
Three Words: Kent Hovind, bitch.
@spaceamoeba
"Kids say all sorts of crap"
As does Kent Hovind. Although these days he just says 'Thank you Mistress Bubba, please may I have another'. X3
Because all of the scientific knowledge in the world is contained in the library of whatever town or shithole you live in.
Well, I'm sure your local burger joint will still be hiring flippers in about 13 years time.
... I was not real sure if my son was grasping any of the information ... . Well, tonight at bedtime I realized that he has been getting a healthy dose of the truth... . He asked me why the bourgeois want to deceive people by telling lies about Communism. When I explained that if they admitted to the fact of Stalin being our Great Leader that [sic] they would have to face their own bourgeois decadence, my son thought about it for a second and then said, "Daddy I know what I am going to do when I get older and can read by myself ... I am going to go to the library and get all of the books and erase all the lies in them." Needless to say I wept and thanked our Great Leader Stalin for my son. ...
Fix'd
I remember asking my mother this question in reverse when I was young. Not this young, but before my teen years. It went something like this:
"Why does the man on Christian radio say all ants sharing a common ancestor is proof of the Garden of Eden, and the opposite of what evolution predicts? The same genus of animal evolving independently several times [what the host said scientists believed until recently] goes totally against evolution."
"Well, he's not really lying. At least, he doesn't think he is. He doesn't understand science as well as you do."
"But... He's so wrong! Evolutionary theory would never have predicted that!"
@Swede : Uh, yeah. I hope he plans on doing this real soon, otherwise he'll be even more intellectually disadvantaged than he already is. He's school age. I know literacy rates are low in the US, but if he can't read by seven (two years max) chances are his literacy will be below even their average.
Some very intelligent people didn't learn to read until late, but I doubt this kid will be exceptional. Really hope so though.
@Often Partisan: Nice.
Edited to remove typos while discussing illiteracy (it reflected badly on me!)
You're the one telling all the lies, asshole! You are willfully deceiving your son and making it harder for him to later grasp real facts about the world. That is tantamount to child abuse, you horrible, horrible person.
This was four years ago, by now the fathers seen the error of his ways and STOPPED HIS SON FROM GOING TO THE LIBRARY! I mean, Jesus help us, there's learning books in there!
"What kinda boy are you, Johnny?"
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