Mister Jack Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 What bothers me isn't that this clearly elementary school kid wrote it, but that the teacher gave him points for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 This is a problem with our public school system. Whether your kid goes to college effectively a retard entirely depends where you live. These guys must live somewhere in the South in a very christian community. The teacher is clearly a christian-loco. Or it could be a joke and we've all been trolled, but it doesn't seem far from the truth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 Or, you know, it's a religious private school. Haven't bothered looking through the r/atheism thread, as I don't normally go to other subreddits outside my fandoms, but that's what I can gather from the title "Dinosaurs: Genesis and the Gospel." The teaching curriculum could be all kinds of nuts and bananas at that school. When I went to Catholic private schools, we never mixed science and religion. They had their own courses, their own books, and their own tests. Not even word problems mentioning some scriptural scenario. Who knows what the opinions each teacher held, but it wasn't apparent on any test I remember. Trust me, I think I would remember something like "Were you there?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 South Carolina, to answer your question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 It's got to be a religious private school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vecha Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 This is a problem with our public school system. Whether your kid goes to college effectively a retard entirely depends where you live. These guys must live somewhere in the South in a very christian community. The teacher is clearly a christian-loco. Or it could be a joke and we've all been trolled, but it doesn't seem far from the truth. Hey! I live in(and have lived in many other) a Southern/"Christian community". Only a fucking private school would get away with that quiz. But hey...you know. Ignore any Bigotry that happens in the North/West...because you know..The South. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercurial Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 (edited) I wouldn't doubt that someone on /r/atheism would go through the trouble of making a fake quiz. Edited April 21, 2013 by Dr.Krieger 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 I live in the South too, but I happened to have gone to a good school district. Wasn't there a huge shitstorm not too long ago with teachers in some southern states wanting to teach kids that evolution is nothing more than a theory and show them the side of creationism? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vecha Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 I live in the South too, but I happened to have gone to a good school district. Wasn't there a huge shitstorm not too long ago with teachers in some southern states wanting to teach kids that evolution is nothing more than a theory and show them the side of creationism? I'm not exactly sure what you are talking about. It wouldn't surprise me. But the idea that there are evangelical Christians/those who want to teach ID ONLY in the south is a fallacy. But..that has little to do with that shitty quiz. It wouldn't fly in a public school(at least not for very long). Someone would sue the ever-loving shit out of the school district or at least bring it to the attention of the Sate School Board). There are idiots everywhere. The South is not the bane of this country. Every state/region likes to pick on someone who is "lower" than them. New York is better than New Jersey. New Jersey is better than Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania is above the Mason Dixon line, so it is better than S.C/N.C/TN/AL/etc etc by default. Alabama/Gerogia are better than Florida and Mississippi...and Florida is better than Cuba(sorry MS...you rank last in everything right now, but AL is always trying to catch up). Look close enough and you'll retards/rednecks/sad excuses of humanity in EVERY state. (I have lived everywhere(right now I live in AL). Born in NY, lived in the south/west/east/north. Pisses me off when a Northerner acts better than a Southerner and vice versa.) And I don't mean to take it out on you W&S/J.C. I just have this very same irritating conversation when I visit my wife's family in Penn...then my wife's in-laws in NJ when they belittle Penn. Just a cycle of BS and hypocrisy. http://www.nbcnews.com/id/8487329/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRevanchist Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 Krieger hit the nail on the head. Someone's trolling. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 http://io9.com/5976112/how-19+year+old-activist-zack-kopplin-is-making-life-hell-for-louisianas-creationists This is what I was talking about. It's been a while since I read it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vecha Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 Really, really fucked up. I think the kid is brilliant and makes me hopeful for the next generations.Especially this quote, "Kopplin is also concerned about the future, and how unprepared the United States has become. "We don't just deny evolution," he says, "We are denying climate change and vaccines and other mainstream science. I'm calling for a Second Giant Leap to change the perception of science in the world.""It is scary how anti-science the whole of this country has become... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 Where states have wanted to teach evolution as just a theory next to creationism they do it under the guise of "intelligent design". Teaching straight-up Christianity like that would never fly in a public school. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted April 26, 2013 Report Share Posted April 26, 2013 http://www.snopes.com/photos/signs/sciencetest.asp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Mercurial Posted May 6, 2013 Report Share Posted May 6, 2013 I am not sure what the joke is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted May 6, 2013 Report Share Posted May 6, 2013 The image is called 'perspective' if that helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercurial Posted May 6, 2013 Report Share Posted May 6, 2013 So is Jesus trying not to masturbate or is he telling the universe not to masturbate? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted May 6, 2013 Report Share Posted May 6, 2013 Just earth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted May 6, 2013 Report Share Posted May 6, 2013 Out of all the universe God created, he feels the need to tell humans not to masturbate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted May 6, 2013 Report Share Posted May 6, 2013 Maybe god's saying don't masturbate, and jesus just spunked out the universe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted May 6, 2013 Report Share Posted May 6, 2013 This is highly inappropriate. I mean jizz louise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Heat Posted July 5, 2013 Report Share Posted July 5, 2013 http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/07/04/imagine-if-an-atheist-jumped-onto-a-christian-monument-as-it-was-being-dedicated/ This popped up in my Facebook feed today. People still pay attention to Hovinds? Really? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mercurial Posted July 5, 2013 Report Share Posted July 5, 2013 Atheist monument? Lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted July 5, 2013 Report Share Posted July 5, 2013 "Let this stone forever stand as a testament to the harsh reality that we are naught but flesh, scurrying around, directionless, until the end of our short and ultimately meaningless lives." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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