[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Ammi

....hmmm, that's interesting because in terms of education as such, I'm fortunate enough to have experience of some children and adults who would probably be considered some of the least educated in the world, in terms of how we would see 'educated'....in the History/Geography/Maths/Sciences etc...so very much 'uneducated people'..?...and you're right, who God is also very much 'visible' to them...he's visible to them because their lives have been nothing but death/sadness/the very 'evils' of human and the very evils of the capability of humans...where is 'God' in their world, how on earth do they find him 'visible' when everything around them is the exact opposite of the concept of God and good and what they believe their God to be...but they can see a flower in the ground and with that one small thing, what they can see, despite everything around them, is beauty and hope../someone could give them virtually nothing at all, a very small act of kindness, you could say..?...nothing that in any way could even touch the negatives and the wrongs their lives have seen ...and with that small 'give', they see 'God', they see the good in people despite their lives telling them that there is no good in people...they have no choices in their lives/their lives are filled with very, very little beauty/very little hope/very little of anything at all positive or to believe in, in the balance of 'good in man'....to 'educate' in the context that I think you mean, as in...look this is science, these are 'proven facts' and your God doesn't exist, there is no beauty, the is no hope, there is nothing other than evil in your worlds/face 'facts' for goodness sake....so there you go, now you know, you don't need your God, do you..?...that isn't 'education' is it, that's a destruction of souls and hearts and a filling of cynicism and despair....even if it was in our power as a world to give an equal 'education' to everyone/every child etc on this earth...(which obviously it just isn't..)...it would never be in our power to change their worlds, take away what is their worlds and their everydays...so we 'educate', we take away their small balances, their small realisations of beauty/good and 'God'...and we leave them exactly where they are to face their realities/their sadness and their losses...'superstition' as you call it flourishes..?...well, maybe so because it needs to flourish, it needs to be present and God needs to be believed in because all lives are not as fortunate as yours or mine to have the balances of good/love and family/friends etc as we have...you know, us well educated and 'intelligent' people....


...obviously I'm not taking about the everyday/average and 'norm' of religion, because everyone with a faith will find their own positives, those things are personal tho them and applied in their own lives...but I'm talking more of an extreme with the good and positive of a faith/belief etc...but with extremes of the negatives of terrorism and evils etc, it's important to look at the balance of good and positives as well...actually not just positive for some but an essential in life....and something like a small wooden crucifix type thing for some children is a similar meaning as a little football card of David Beckham they may be lucky enough to own, it's hope and it's the focus of something other than death/sadness and nothingness/their realities...

False hope is no hope at all