Posted on 12/04/2015 3:15:00 PM PST by NYer
Let's think about this.
My 15-year-old son and I were pulling out of his large public high school when we spotted a bumper sticker on the back of a student's vehicle:
Apparently, this is a popular saying among "free-thinkers" (atheists, agnostics, secularists), and although "religious people are blind followers" is a standard platitude, I had not seen this particular incarnation before.
"Wow, that's so ridiculous, because I'm sure she goes along with whatever belief is popular right now."
Ping!
ie. “POLITICAL CORRECTNESS: because thinking is IMPOSSIBLE.”
Democrat—because thinking is too hard.
Two thumbs up to your son!
God created us. He gave us rules to live by for our own good and so we will be with Him in eternity. We have free will. We can go along with the religion we were born into or were led to or not. We can pretend God works for us and is supposed to do for us what we tell Him to do, or we can keep sight I what we are taught, whatever it was.
But please, let’s not underestimate the wisdom of our young people who are going to have to live with this mess more than we have ever had to. A mess created by and perpetuated by U.S. boomers
A 15 year old public school student said this:
“Wow, that’s so ridiculous, because I’m sure she goes along with whatever belief is popular right now.”
My experience with these guys is that they are wise, funny and logical, still. The girls are quite feminized. Old movies help them out of that
Let’s help them along in their wisdom, wherever we can find it
Good post!
The religion (faith) I learned in my home church growing up and at St. Joe and in the decades since then has required a lot of hard thinking, examination, reading dozens of volumes, more hard thinking, re-examination, conversations with dozens of people, contemplation, and prayer.
Yep, no effort required, I just followed the herd -— NOT!!!
I saw a great one:
Imagine—using your turn signal.
I always thought the platitude “Freethinker” was silly since most just regurgitate the words of whom THEY follow, be it Robert Ingersoll or Madalyn Murray O’Hair. A quick trip to the sewer DUmp shows there is not an original thought in that group of “freethinkers”.
I often wonder, since O’Hair believed only in herself, when her atheist followers came for her with the strangling cords, chain saw and sledge hammers, did she exclaim “OH MY GOD!” or “Oh my me!”
Thanks for the ping. Going along with the crowd and not thinking is the road most traveled.
So-called nonconformists always conform rigidly to the standards of other nonconformists.
Atheists are the children of Marx, and the enemies of America.
I always liked “Visualize Whirled Peas.”
“Visualize Whirled Peas.” That’s a popular standby joke in our household. Even our teen daughter has adopted its message.
“religious people are blind followers”
Yes we are -
Then Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, so that those who do not see might see, and those who do see might become blind.” Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and said to him, “Surely we are not also blind, are we?” Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you are saying, ‘We see,’ so your sin remains.”
John 9:39-41
LOL! I love it.
Liberalism: The most gutless choice a person can make; do of it feels good, no thinking required, just follow the crowd.
I'd bet that this student also calls for "tolerance," all without any hint of irony.
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