Newsweek: Dumb things American's believe

[Ducimus]

http://www.newsweek.com/photo/2010/0...s-believe.html

[SteamWake]

Wow Newsweek is still in print??

[Aramike]

Originally Posted by SteamWake

Wow Newsweek is still in print??

[Ducimus]

Well, it is more of a magazine then a newspaper. It's newspapers that are in trouble. You can still find newsweek in just about any doctors office waiting room, bookstore or library that keeps a periodical section or magazine rack.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Ducimus

http://www.newsweek.com/photo/2010/0...s-believe.html

Some of those poll results are really scaring.

That in 1999, every fifth still believed in that the sun is revolving around Earth, can be forgiven. The church has officially rehabilitated Gallileo just 6 or 7 years earlier.

[August]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Some of those poll results are really scaring.

That in 1999, every fifth still believed in that the sun is revolving around Earth, can be forgiven. The church has officially rehabilitated Gallileo just 6 or 7 years earlier.

Now what makes you think that one is the result of the other?

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by August

Now what makes you think that one is the result of the other?

I did not. I'm just wondering who is worse off with his education scheme!?

[August]

Originally Posted by Skybird

I did not. I'm just wondering who is worse off with his education scheme!?

Naw that's pretty much all public school stupid that you're seeing there. Private schools, even religious ones, tend to actually require student participation.

In my job it's always fun to have explain to a young man the universal truth that the 12 years of free education he just wasted on screwing off will severely limit his ability to earn a decent income for years if not decades to come.

[Castout]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Some of those poll results are really scaring.

That in 1999, every fifth still believed in that the sun is revolving around Earth, can be forgiven. The church has officially rehabilitated Gallileo just 6 or 7 years earlier.

I'm a Catholic myself but I resent how the church taught that the sun was revolving around the earth.

Simply because there's no biblical basis for that. I actually asked others in a Christian forum where did those priests get the idea and the verses they came out with were really needed to be twisted and stretched far to fit in that it was either an obvious lie or a severe case of stupidity. God helps us on either!
Of course the people who gave the verses stood up for the church for having been mistaken but I do not. To me it was a plain abuse of bible verses though i take no belief that the bible was written by God himself or contains no error at all because it was written by many different people who had had faith on God and experience and wisdom on God and which was translated many many times from one language to another.

Now because of those priests' arrogance and stupidity many people believe the whole teaching is wrong and a bunch of mumbo jumbo.



Had I lived several hundred years back I'm sure I'd have been burned at the stake too for too many reasons one of which disagreeing with them on the bible teaching on death and life after death. Thanks to these Catholic priests, the mainstream Christianity beliefs on death and life after death is now no more the same as those in the early church. Thank you for frakking it up that now every people think they are essentially immortal and would come back to God even though they didn't come from God in the first place. Had people come from God as Jesus did they would have known something about God without being taught.

Just because people choose to believe in Christ it doesn't mean they have to stop being critical(not the same with being skeptical) in what they believe in. On the contrary be even more critical so they'd actually know what they believe in and may God help them on that too.

[August]

Originally Posted by Castout

I'm a Catholic myself but I resent how the church taught that the sun was revolving around the earth.

....

Now because of those priests' arrogance and stupidity many people believe the whole teaching is wrong and a bunch of mumbo jumbo.

Well that's just silly. The Catholic Church hasn't preached that nonsense for hundreds of years. Nobody alive today got that idea from them including you.

[Aramike]

This just in: Some people are idiots.

Nice exclusive.

[Platapus]

The scary question is that of these people, how many of them vote?

[Stealth Hunter]

Originally Posted by Platapus

The scary question is that of these people, how many of them vote?

Odds are most of them are still eligible to vote. I lol'd and shuttered at their part on witchcraft and the supernatural.


It seems obvious that it's not a good idea to put too much stock in withcraft. But it turns out that 21 percent of Americans believe there are real sorcerors, conjurers and warlocks out there. And that's just one of the several paranormal beliefs common in Americans, according to Gallup: 41 percent believe in ESP, 32 percent in ghosts, and a quarter in astrology. In fairness, the numbers in this poll are a little old—they date back to 2005. But then again, if people haven't changed their mind since the Enlightenment, it's not clear another half a decade would make much difference.

[Platapus]

I work as an Election Official during the elections. I get to meet an "interesting" cross section of our citizens at the polling location. After the election, I often question the logic of universal suffrage.

It is a great concept, but do we really really really want every one to be able to vote?. In a democratically elected government, alas, the answer is, unfortunately yes.

There should not be a poll tax, but a poll test.

[Platapus]

I wonder if the 21% of the people who believe in witches are associated with the religion of Wicca in which the subscribers believe in good witches?