My science teacher showed us pictures of the dragons that people hunted and about the hidden coves where dinosaurs still exist and there’s native tribes that know about them but nobody talks about it because it would kill their evolution narrative
If someone were to break out a stegosaurus right now, it wouldn’t disprove evolution, it would disprove the extinction.
To disprove evolution you would need to interrogate a horseshoe crab to find out what they looked like before.
Did they watch Journey to the Centre of the Earth and think it was a documentary?
I remember some wild story about a guy who was killed by some other guys, and then buried in a cave with a big rock and who came back to life, but nobody saw it, but somehow became two other guys as well.
There was another mad story about the whole world and everything on it being built by magic over six days too, but I think they were joking about that.
The sticker book was kinda cool though, and getting a sticker for every lesson and service I attended. Not completing that before I walked out aged eight, saying “But this is all wrong” is my only regret.
Good one. Hahaha😄
To stay away from Father Dale (Fushek) and his hot tub parties. It wasn’t the message that creeped me out, it was the cold and guilty tone. The nuns and staff knew what was going on, but instead of police, they were just trying to move him somewhere else. Today he walks free in Scottsdale, AZ and is seen living the high life at various fancy restaurants. If we give him hell, we’re the ones that get kicked out.
We were taught creationism since an early age. At some point they had to teach evolution to meet government curriculum requirements, but the entire time they kept emphasising “it is just a theory!!, and there is no real evidence for it”
Oh and during the week or two when evolution was taught, suddenly all we were doing in religion class was watching videos that “debunk” evolution, and “prove” creationism
I remember one of those videos which more or less boiled down to “the human eye is so complex that there is no way that it couldn’t have been created.”
Wasn’t until I was older that I thought, hey wait a minute. Other animals see way better than us, and there are many animals that see worse kind of proving the whole trial and error thing, and then you also realize we need corrective lenses because our vision fails and there are cataracts and lazy eyes and colorblind and then blind people. Maybe it’s not such perfect creation after all but instead a bunch of trial and error over millions of years
Yeah they call it “irreducible complexity”. And yet there’s a little wart on top of my car’s dashboard that just detects if it’s light or dark out.
I haven’t heard that term in decades and I immediately recognized it. God so stupid, and so brainwashed I was
Not to mention that, for the longest time, that was the one they went to because science didn’t really have any kind of reasoning or theory for how it’d’ve come about and was considered, at the time, unknown; but, in our current present, now we do. Funny how science works.
There were many crazy things, but the one that affected me the most was my RE teacher’s insistence that all non-Catholics would go to hell. My best friend’s dad, who was an atheist and a very kind person, had died a few days before and it made me really upset. My parents complained to the school about it.
I didn’t go to a “religious school,” but I did attend public high school in Texas.
Our health teacher was a coach, and he went over sex education. One day he said that condoms don’t eliminate risk from STDs, they just reduce it by about half. Even wearing two condoms doesn’t really eliminate the risk, it just reduces it by another 50%, so you’ve still got a 25% chance of getting something.
I was a pretty naïve kid, but even I knew that was fucking stupid.
The numbers are obviously wiiiiildly off but it’s certainly true that there are some STIs that condoms aren’t adequately able to protect you against (HSV, HPV, syphilis).
Oh, for sure. It’d have been useful information to communicate!
But telling kids to wear two condoms is insane even by American South standards.
Two stories:
My mom was in a religious school for a few years, and her craziest story was sex Ed, which was mandated in the state at the time. The entire class was “take this shoebox home.” Literally no other instructions. The shoebox contained a mirror and nothing else. It was 20 years later before she realized what the mirror was for, because she wasn’t informed it was a sex Ed class.
ETA: the school was mixed gender, the classes were not. Girls had separate classes from boys. The mirror was for standing over and seeing that you do, indeed, have a vagina, and then gaining absolutely other information
I was homeschooled, but not in a religious way. My mom ordered the books the state told her to order. When we got them they were fine, until we got to the science module and it told us how ancient humans and dinosaurs lived side by side. … My mom immediately ordered different books.
I admit, I have no idea what the mirror is for
I know, but only because of an early episode of Family Guy.
Hey everybody, this guy doesn’t know what the mirror is for! ~i also have no idea~
Presuming it was a girls school, probably for examining one’s own lady parts.
I didn’t know how messed up it was at the time, but with the hindsight of what I know now: Hebrew school telling me I could go on a free trip to Israel after my Bar mitzvah. I didn’t go mostly because I didn’t like religion or having to go to boring temple all the time, but now that I know about the genocide and the Birthright trip being this super messed up propaganda tool for impressionable teenagers I’m really glad I didn’t go.
My Hebrew school had a class trip to Israel.
To stay away from the class pet
Good to know Mr. sexy_animal_fucker.
That god loves me despite me being a degenerate homosexual with instincts that are derived from the chief source of evil; Satan.
Hard not to think you were born evil when everyone keeps telling you it is wrong to like other men.
Just fyi Jesus never said anything about gay people. He said a lot about hateful people though. The definition of a sin is defined as a failure. Nowhere in the Bible is being gay defined as a sin. There are stories readers of lower processing power may interpret that way though. But that’s like saying Romeo and Juliet was a story about the dangers of recreational drug use because they both ODed. Moving on everyone sins daily. It does not mean your damned to hell and anyone preaching that hasn’t read the Bible. The entire point of Jesus dying on the cross is that if you accept and believe (you don’t have to be a good person and follow his hippie teachings of love and kindness and compassion but hed love it if you did) that your sins are absolved in full. The entire purpose of the story of the two thieves (read bandits/murders being crucified with Jesus https://www.bibleodyssey.org/articles/crucifixion-in-the-roman-world/ ) is that one repents and is saved the other mocks being saved and isn’t. Sincerely a guy who studied a lot of Christianity and was raised a Christian.
Nowhere in the Bible is being gay defined as a sin.
I think that’s true of the new testament, but I think the old would hold male on male gay sex as a sin (i.e. “soddemy”). The act, not the state of being. I don’t think lesbianism is ever referred to.
But you’re right. The entire point is that we all sin and we all ask for forgiveness. We should all be humble to god.
Of course, it’s all bullshit, but it’s also been corrupted so much that Christians don’t even live by the lessons.
…signed an atheist that was forced into Bible study as a child.
Ask a Christian how an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, omnibenevolent, and perfect God who supposedly was the source of everything can create something “flawed” and punish it for eternity, and they’ll have a stroke trying to explain that free will is somehow a thing then make a bunch of nonsensical analogies
Luckily it wasn’t an American school so the crazy went as far as the earth being 6000 years old. Made for an embarrassing trip to the museum when the teacher told the guide that we were brainwashed christian children though.
My wife went to Catholic school in the 70s. Not sure how it came up, but someone asked how King Herod died and the nun said he ate so much his stomach exploded. My.mom went to Catholic school in the 50s. She was told that Martin Luther “ate babies”
Damn… and I thought nailing his feces to the door was bad…
The theory of general relativity. Honestly, I understand it better now, and it’s still pretty crazy.
All girls Catholic school (though I am not, and have never been Catholic). We had three nuns on campus, two teachers and a counselor. One of them taught religious studies and that was where we got 9th grade sex ed. This teacher was firm but beloved, a bit of a hippie, also taught a class about spirituality that was separate from religion, said things like “God has no gender” in class but would straight up call God a woman outside of class, exclusively played Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell music… you get the picture.
Anyway it’s become a bit of a legend now, but apparently during sex ed for the girls a couple of grades ahead of mine, one of the students boldly asked, “Sister, how do you know anything about this? Why are we being taught this by a nun?”
The response was, “I wasn’t always a nun. I’ve been around the block a few times.” You can imagine the uproar this caused for a bunch of 9th grade Catholic girls.
I don’t remember anything crazy. Unless you consider what’s in the Bible as crazy. It was a really positive experience for me. I started out in the public system and really didn’t like it. I asked my parents to switch me. Kids were an awful lot nicer in the religious school.
