Funny things I learned in church

[iris27]

23. Oh, good grief, so many.

- that the sheer commonality of phrases that "take the Lord's name in vain" are proof of the Christian God's existence and power..."because after all, no one says 'Shiva damn', or 'Gautama H. Buddha'." FACEPALM FOREVER

- that in India, people bow down to penis statues that dot the streetcorners. And this was in a HIGH SCHOOL, junior-year religion class! Parochial school, obviously.

- a lot of generally derogatory stuff about other denominations and other faiths that would get immediately hidden here on DU if it was said about Christianity...calling the Mormon angel Moroni "Baloney" and ONLY ever using that name, that Scientology got started because of a bet L. Ron Hubbard had with Heinlein that he could start a cult, all the stuff prior posters said they were taught about Catholics, etc.

- that anyone with sustained supernatural abilities is getting their power from the devil, because God only grants power like that in limited and/or emergency circumstances, basically, one-off "miracles", so that the glory goes to God and not the person.

- OH! I FORGOT THE BEST ONE UNTIL JUST NOW! In 6th grade (parochial K-8 school), I was taught that carbon-dating is junk because "you can stick a tree branch in dirt, then test both ends of the branch, and get totally different results! OMG!!!111!!" Sad thing is, I'm pretty sure that was in SCIENCE class. Also in science class that year, we got a quick, terribly inaccurate description of the Big Bang theory, followed by question, "But then where did those first clouds of gas come from? Huh? Huh????"

- High school biology: Natural selection is real, but never results in speciation, and thus evolution is totally bogus.

- High school "Seminar in Christian Living": All women hear demon voices in their heads, and men should never bottle-feed their children because it will destroy their masculinity.




Geez...looking back, it's a wonder it took me until I was 20 to stop believing, rather than just rolling my eyes at the idiots and thinking their interpretation of the Bible was wrong.