1. Life after Jehovah's Witnesses: website offers help to followers who lose their faith

Comment #175909 by MaxwellSmart on May 6, 2008 at 8:27 am

riandouglas:

I hate to say it, but these "quieter" sects are all the more dangerous for their lack of visibility.

The old saying comes to mind:

Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

These "quiet" sects are the ones that survive generations in quiet out of the way places like rural Texas, while little girls, barely into puberty, are forced into wedlock with, and impregnated by men old enough to be their grandfather.

There is no such thing as a rational religious sect. Like Richard says, the first thing they do is require that you "suspend reason".

There's a point where we have to draw a line and say "No further!" That line has already been drawn in the wrong damn place. I just want to know how the hell to push it back to where it belongs without hurting anyone else ...

2. Evolution's Critics Shift Tactics With Schools

Comment #175311 by MaxwellSmart on May 5, 2008 at 7:43 am

I have two words in response to pretty much any post on these educational travesties:

"Home schooling"

The thing is, usually folks associate home-schoolers with fundamentalists that find public schools too liberal and secular.

I figure it's a good way to teach children the Truth and give them an objective view of what's out there. And to explain that just because someone believes something doesn't make it the Truth.

Cheers.