I'm pretty sure all the weird Young Earth Creationist shit about dinosaurs is just meant to subvert children's love for dinos and redirect it to support the fundie evangelical worldview they're being brought up in
Kids, of course, intuitively know the truth that velociraptors are cooler than God
I see it more as dying gasps of when churches had a monopoly on literacy and children. I say this because the university I went to had about 5% incoming freshman dropouts before they finished their first year due to religious reasons. The would say the school was teaching too many unchristian things and wanted no part of it. I went to school in a place full of these evangelicals who were all homeschooled and never heard about evolution or dinosaurs until they were 18.
Homeschooling is easier when you don't have to do peer review or experiments or anything, and evangelicals want homeschooling because it creates more easily controlled kids. (And more easy child abuse)
The extent to which they're willing to go to create an entirely parallel Truman Show style reality that conforms to their stupid beliefs and shields them from the slightest scrutiny is kind of impressive. Of course, the eventual plan is to force everyone else to live in it too
Jesus rode around on a T-Rex :think-about-it:
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I'm pretty sure all the weird Young Earth Creationist shit about dinosaurs is just meant to subvert children's love for dinos and redirect it to support the fundie evangelical worldview they're being brought up in
Kids, of course, intuitively know the truth that velociraptors are cooler than God
I see it more as dying gasps of when churches had a monopoly on literacy and children. I say this because the university I went to had about 5% incoming freshman dropouts before they finished their first year due to religious reasons. The would say the school was teaching too many unchristian things and wanted no part of it. I went to school in a place full of these evangelicals who were all homeschooled and never heard about evolution or dinosaurs until they were 18.
Homeschooling is easier when you don't have to do peer review or experiments or anything, and evangelicals want homeschooling because it creates more easily controlled kids. (And more easy child abuse)
The extent to which they're willing to go to create an entirely parallel Truman Show style reality that conforms to their stupid beliefs and shields them from the slightest scrutiny is kind of impressive. Of course, the eventual plan is to force everyone else to live in it too