I feel sorry for those poor kids.
"Why do you believe in Creationism?"
"Because... because it says that God created the Earth in the Bible..." -Little girl that wasn't even 6-years old
When you start forcing this stuff on kids, then it becomes my business because I won't tolerate it. Hell, it might not be my kid, but I'm not going to let you brainwash such an innocent and helpless child.
I would do the exact opposite. I would sit down with the child and teach them about all the religions man has created. I would tell them about what I believe (in the situation where I'm the parent, of course) and then explain to them that they can choose whatever religion they want, or they don't even have to choose one if they don't want to; I wouldn't force it on them. You'll scare the bejesus out of them by saying, "DON'T LIE, OR YOU'LL BURN IN HELL FOR YOUR SINS!!! FOR ALL ETERNITY!!!"
Those teenagers were so brainwashed it wasn't even funny. "Yep, I'm gonna disprove evolution and win a Nobel Prize!" -Gothic looking one
Evangelicals are Grade-A hypocrites (Type-R). They're also stubborn and closed-minded. They go out swinging with all these ideas and say, "We have the answers, good people! Flock to us! Everyone else is wrong! We're right! We know the true lord! Not the other religions! We've seen the light!" They claim that people who don't believe in the Bible are ignoring the facts, while they're ignoring science and truth.
The Bible says a lot of things... and not very clearly... Just remember that God didn't write it, MAN wrote it. Simple, imperfect, microscopic men of the ages...
We're not even a grain of sand in this universe. Other forms of life out there are also bound to have these ideas of Gods, but the chance anyone of them even remotely comes close to nailing what God's plan is over a trillion-billion to .0001.
I also think religion causes more problems than it solves (Romans burning the Christians who then toppled them and sent us into the Dark Ages? The Crusades? The Inquisition? The Salem Witch-Hunts? The Holocaust? Jihadists? How about all the unfair treatment people have endured because their beliefs differ, because they don't fall in line with what society deems "normal"?).
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