Parental abuse

Apparently there are some parents who take the Bible so literally they will take their kids to museums on "Bible Tours" and teach them that man walked the earth at the same time as dinosaurs and that the people who run museums "worship the creature and not the creator.' Here's a sample of their reasoning: God created man on the 6th day and God created animals on the sixth day. Therefore man and dinosaurs were on the earth at the same time. They also argue, the Eat Valley Tribune (18 Feb 2006, p. F2) story reports, that the people who run these tours claim "evolutionist thinking supports racism and abortion."

If man were on the earth at the same time, man would be one thing: prey, or put another way: dinner.

Now, I'm a fairly faithful person but I have to tell you that anyone who teaches this stuff to their kids should be charged with child abuse. It is unconscionable to me that anyone parent would indoctrinate their children with such an outrageous lack of scientific knowledge and ignore two thousand years worth of science to keep their interpretation of the Bible such that they cannot question their faith or realize it on their own.

Can you imagine the ridicule these kids will have to go through once they encounter the real world and people tell them their beliefs are false? What will that do to the kid's faith at that point? What will that do to these kid's views of adults? What will this do with these kids belief in all other things they have been taught? Do these adults who have apparently lost track of reality really think they can isolate their kids from the rest of the world? They must, but here's the abuse part: they don't care. They are purposefully teaching their children things they know are false, but because of THEIR beliefs, have convinced themselves is false despite two thousand years of learning, discovery and science.

I know a lot of grown-up kids from evangelical families who have had kids out of wedlock, turned out to be gay, and drug and alcohol abusers simply because they learned their parents were lying to the or indoctrinating them and they rebelled against it.

This is madness. This is fraud and abuse. Society needs put a stop to the spread of ignorance. It is as real a threat to our society as anything else threatening our country.