I doubt very many reasonable people become Christians solely because they have been persuaded that the Bible is inerrant.

I certainly agree.
Most reasonable people becomes Christians because their parents were Christians. But what do you think the main reason that adults convert? Maybe lovers (spouses) or to raise children are the top two. What would you say the top 4 are? Then again, the reason someone gives and the actual reason are difficult to sort out in research.

I doubt very many reasonable people become Christians solely because they have been persuaded that the Bible is inerrant.

I certainly agree.
Most reasonable people becomes Christians because their parents were Christians. But what do you think the main reason that adults convert? Maybe lovers (spouses) or to raise children are the top two. What would you say the top 4 are? Then again, the reason someone gives and the actual reason are difficult to sort out in research.

On a tangent,
One of the polemical shifts I have noted is the once accepted consensus that all mankind was, by nature, created religious and innately prone to worship, is now opposed by an argument for the secular as exempt, excusable from the religious impetus. This is something on a backburner inquiry among my other current pots of puzzlements, but something that will impact my rants on secular humanism and public religication (cult of schoolism) as problematic to the establishment clause.

And back to labels and appellations,
I refer you to some mainstream work that is apparently confirming my thoughts on the nature of our system of “day prison for kids”.
From the site: “End the War on Freedom” –
“Why Don’t Students Like School?” Well, Duhhhh…

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 2009-11-12 05:34.
Peter Gray at Psychology Today(link) – School is prison. Even worse than prison in many ways. [lew(link)]

Quote:
But I think it is time that we say it out loud. School is prison.

If you think school is not prison, please explain the difference.

The only difference I can think of is that to get into prison you have to commit a crime, but they put you in school just because of your age. In other respects school and prison are the same. In both places you are stripped of your freedom and dignity. You are told exactly what you must do, and you are punished for failing to comply. Actually, in school you must spend more time doing exactly what you are told to do than is true in adult prisons, so in that sense school is worse than prison.

…

If this keeps up, I may be more apt at copy and paste instead of composing my own rhetoric.

Wind

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On a tangent,
One of the polemical shifts I have noted is the once accepted consensus that all mankind was, by nature, created religious and innately prone to worship, is now opposed by an argument for the secular as exempt, excusable from the religious impetus. This is something on a backburner inquiry among my other current pots of puzzlements, but something that will impact my rants on secular humanism and public religication (cult of schoolism) as problematic to the establishment clause.

And back to labels and appellations,
I refer you to some mainstream work that is apparently confirming my thoughts on the nature of our system of “day prison for kids”.
From the site: “End the War on Freedom” –
“Why Don’t Students Like School?” Well, Duhhhh…

Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Thu, 2009-11-12 05:34.
Peter Gray at Psychology Today(link) – School is prison. Even worse than prison in many ways. [lew(link)]

Quote:
But I think it is time that we say it out loud. School is prison.

If you think school is not prison, please explain the difference.

The only difference I can think of is that to get into prison you have to commit a crime, but they put you in school just because of your age. In other respects school and prison are the same. In both places you are stripped of your freedom and dignity. You are told exactly what you must do, and you are punished for failing to comply. Actually, in school you must spend more time doing exactly what you are told to do than is true in adult prisons, so in that sense school is worse than prison.

…

If this keeps up, I may be more apt at copy and paste instead of composing my own rhetoric.

Wind

……………….

And by the way — congratulations on posting the 1,500th comment!