/sci/ - Science & Math

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>1.) Indoctrination
I don't remember being taught the Bible in school, and even my church was pretty lukewarm. Didn't really teach me anything.

Everything I know about God I learned after I turned 18...and I learned it on my own...not from some class I took or some church I attend.

>2.) Willful self-delusion/irrational optimism...
>optimism
"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:23)

"All our righteous deeds have become like filthy rags." (Isaiah 64:6)

>3.) Not having things like mandatory logic,
Physical or spiritual?

>critical thinking
Physical or spiritual?

>civil debate
Oh come on, we have this.

>and basic philosophy in the public education system.
I would have liked this. A nice philosophy class in school when I was younger would have been nice. Also a nutrition class would have been cool too.

>4.) People being generally misinformed about other worldviews
...ahem...

Here's a mirror. Look hard into it.

>and thinking that it is impossible to have meaning or ethics or a sense of "awe" at the universe outside of their own religion.
It's possible to have all those things outside of Christianity.

Meaning and ethics are entirely subjective in and of themselves. A tribe of cannibals in Africa has ethics just like I do.

The ethics may not be identical, but they are ethics nonetheless.

And a sense of awe is even more common outside of Christianity. Look how many people are chasing UFO's and ghosts. They're awed by those things!