Are smart kids hounded out of religious classes?

[_Hoops]

People feel threatened when they are unable to meet rational challenge to an irrational belief in some (any) religious mythology.

Sharp kids (teenagers) are often unwelcome in religious school classes. They ask too many questions for which the religious “teachers” have no rational response.

Questions are threatening.

JAK

What a total pile.

Have you ever been to an Episcopalian religious class? An RCC class? Even a SBC doctrine class?

[_JAK]

People feel threatened when they are unable to meet rational challenge to an irrational belief in some (any) religious mythology.

Sharp kids (teenagers) are often unwelcome in religious school classes. They ask too many questions for which the religious “teachers” have no rational response.

Questions are threatening.

JAK

What a total pile.

Have you ever been to an Episcopalian religious class? An RCC class? Even a SBC doctrine class?

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Hoops,

There is no refutation in your comment.

Write a prayer on the earlier topic which you appear to have abandoned and let’s do an analysis of that prayer.

Where I “have …ever been” is quite irrelevant to the issues I raised with you.

JAK

[_Hoops]

Hoops,

There is no refutation in your comment.

Okay. I've attended classes in all these denominations, as well as others. I've never attended an LDS class. Virtually every class I've attended has at one time or another addressed extremely difficult questions. There has been aggressive give and take, and the instructors were up to the task. Not necessarily with trite answers, but with engaging the questions and the questioner. That, to me, is what class is about. And a step further, that is what Faith is.

Write a prayer on the earlier topic which you appear to have abandoned and let’s do an analysis of that prayer.

I don't recall. Remind me.

Where I “have …ever been” is quite irrelevant to the issues I raised with you.

You brought it up as if you had some experience about the subject. Now you're saying you don't?

[_JAK]

Hoops,

Wrong. It’s irrelevant where I have been.

JAK

[_JAK]

Hoops,

There is no refutation in your comment.

Okay. I've attended classes in all these denominations, as well as others. I've never attended an LDS class. Virtually every class I've attended has at one time or another addressed extremely difficult questions. There has been aggressive give and take, and the instructors were up to the task. Not necessarily with trite answers, but with engaging the questions and the questioner. That, to me, is what class is about. And a step further, that is what Faith is.

Write a prayer on the earlier topic which you appear to have abandoned and let’s do an analysis of that prayer.

I don't recall. Remind me.

Where I “have …ever been” is quite irrelevant to the issues I raised with you.

You brought it up as if you had some experience about the subject. Now you're saying you don't?

Hoops,

I gave a four part response to “Questions for Atheists” and you did not respond. There are FOUR responses to comments made by you there.

JAK

[_JAK]

Hoops,

You don’t recall. See these.

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JAK