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Posted on 11/19/2025 8:37:08 AM PST by cuz1961
MILLIONS Left the Faith Because of This Sneaky Lie Taught in Schools Calvin Smith November 15, 2025 This sneaky lie taught in schools all over the world has caused MILLIONS to abandon the Christian faith… Join me as I expose why evolutionary ideas about rock layers are not only false, but very harmful.
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Grateful for Catholic school during formative years…
Both Fundamentalist Christian and Public Schools have their drawbacks. And not sure about stats, but anecdotally, it seems the former “foundation” leads to loss of faith just as much too…
Care to share what you think are the shortfalls of “Fundamentalist Christian” schooling?
And how those compare with the Catholic church schools and their teaching of the traditions of fallible men as Gospel Truths are no less harmful?
And personally I an agnostic about how old the earth is within the confines of understanding of time - BUT I do not believe man descended from ape.
My belief is Adam was made from the dust. Period. AND there was a flood that engulfed the world with Noah’s family spared, etc...
This puts me at odds with more flexible Catholic teaching, which is a sort of theistic evolution framework — but I appreciated the flexibility and room for discussion between all viewpoints in the classroom nonetheless.
The cure for such ignorance is enlightenment
but I appreciated the flexibility and room for discussion between all viewpoints in the classroom nonetheless.
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You appreciate discussions that have theories presented as fact ?
How educational of you .
God’s time is not Human’s time.
We rely on so called scientific theories instead of the Biblical account. Now we know the aboriginal universe was fully formed at birth and dinosaur fosssils have flexible collagen and protein and dna remnants. Now were learning about the elasticity of time and the vast speciation that allowed dinosaurs to develop into birds.
The only thing we disagree on is how long ago it was (thousands of years ago vs billions of years ago) and how long it took (a week vs a series of long eras). The few times I hear theistic evolution tends to come from the "church" leaders who promote modern day hedonism.
When my kids went to Catholic high school, I checked their history book - it affirmed evolution.
They rely on us trusting the credibility of this poster, which goes down with each post like this that occurs.
If the original poster doesn't care—neither should we.
Mt Saint Helens erupted, they checked the new land made by it two weeks later. Carbon dating said it was formed millions of years ago. This is the science that they use to go against the earth being about 6 thousand years old.
They were millions of years off.
And,of course,it helps me in other ways as well.
I’ve always like the Orthodox Jewish explanation.
Adam was a fully adult male at the time of creation.
If you asked a doctor how old Adam was on the date of creation, the doctor would correctly say “34” (or whatever the age is). He’d be correct, medically speaking.
If you asked a Rabbi, he’d say, “one day old”. He’d be correct, theologically speaking.
God exists outside time and space. Both are perfectly acceptable and compatible.
To me, evolutionists saying evolution disproves God is a bit like saying the recipe disproves the chef.
No, that’s just how people believe the chef did it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiocarbon_dating
“the oldest dates that can be reliably measured by this process date to approximately 50,000 years ago”
Care to share what you think are the shortfalls of “Fundamentalist Christian” schooling?
My example from when I was a kid: I remember a discussion about the King James Bible. I am not embellishing when I say that I was told “we use the King James version because that was the original language of Jesus. I found myself surrounded by geniuses like that in the 80’s.
“ Join me as I expose why evolutionary ideas about rock layers are not only false, but very harmful.”
Flat-earthers, silver-cures-bacterial infections, anti-evolutionists, and young-earthers all fail to use the huge brains God evolved for us.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahaha!!!!
What idiot used carbon dating on inorganic matter?
Nobody, of course, because the people with the equipment to do radiocarbon dating know better.
Stifling. Dualistic. Anti-creativity and individuality. Afraid of debate and nuance.
Stifling:
Truths are packaged, simplified into platitudes, and spoon fed. Bible verses are memorized, but not wrestled with. The curriculum lacks emphasis on things like church history — which at my Catholic girls’ school was required Freshman year and helped build appreciation for scope of Christianity that goes beyond American culture or one’s “personal testimony.”
Dualistic:
Too much of a divide between what is secular and what is spiritual. What if God doesn’t want you to only be good at a “Christian version” of something? If you are a songwriter; be an objectively good and skilled songwriter, not just a “Christian” songwriter.
Anti-creative, Anti-individuality.
This shouldn’t be generalized as I don’t think it applies to ALL Christian schools. But there can be a sort of unspoken conformity of expectation for what one should aspire to in life — what fields or paths God approves of? And in Evangelical contexts: it usually boils down to two things: Missionary work at least once, and then marriage. There can also be narrow understanding of “ministry” confined to the local church and separate from greater culture — kind of going back to the dualistic thing…This though I believe is changing…
- (Note: the EXTREME backlash and reaction to this can be things like..not just tatoos and piercings everywhere later in life (which I’m not saying is inherently wrong) but: gender dysphoria…Boys, girls whose personalities and predilections don’t fit established “norms” may seek to claim their identity in really toxic ways. “Boy thinks: I’m sensitive and artsy? Maybe I’m a girl.) 🫤
- Catholics including homeschoolers are increasingly embracing a curriculum called “Theology of the Body” which communicates sexuality, gender, biology, in a way that is sacred, holistic…not oversimplified and reactionary.
Afraid of debate and nuance:
You see this on FR all the time with “End Times” discussions. People put God in a box and equate any challenge to fixed opinions as anathema. And fundamentalist Christianity inhibits the ability to hold space for: 1) Mystery 2) Tension. There ARE grey areas in life and that’s OK. Our world is fallen. There will always be tension between the visible and invisible. And as Christians we are called to be in the world and not of it. So we don’t have to have all the answers.
Finally: And I saw this somewhere. The reason why the New Age has taken such a grip on lapsed Christians is because Satan was able to hijack the concept of Love. Any true Christ centered education would build the ethos of its students on LOVE not legalism, or moral perfection. Love is what covers a multitude of sins. And thar means Love for God, love for people and creation beyond the confines of religion, love for the lost, the broken, needy. Love, not rules is a stronger and lasting foundation for faith.
There is no tenet in evolutionary theory (!) that says man descended from apes. The claim is that the two have a common ancestor. Not thrying to sway you...just sayin’.
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