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"It's the damndest thing I've ever seen."
I just think it is unfair to cast Marke in the role of the bad guy because you happen to dislike his point of view.
For over forty years, the New Left -- a collection of Marxists, Stalinists, Trotskyites, Maoists, and anarchists have been waging a Gramscian style "quiet revolution" for the overthrow of Christianity and America's Constitution, Rule of Law, sovereignty, and way of life.
Marxist Subversion & Perversion of American Youth
The goals of CSE (government endorsed comprehensive sex education):
1. Teach kids to masturbate.
2. Teach kids to accept and explore diverse sexual orientations.
3. Promote high risk sexual behaviors including anal and oral sex, and teach that such sex is safe and healthy.
4. Teach kids how to achieve pleasure in sex.
5. Teach kids that sexual promiscuity is good and is an individual right.
6. Teach that abortion is good, is safe and has no negative consequences.
7. Encourage kids to experiment with sex among their peers of both sexes.
8. Teach kids of both sexes how to use condoms, why they are needed and do not inform them of failure rates.
9. Teach kids that religious objections to sexual promiscuity and perversion are lies to be dismissed as harmful myths.
10. Teach kids to disrespect parents who oppose sexual experimentation among kids or parents who promote Biblical objections to ungodly sexual activities.
11. Teach kids to confide in school officials (without parental consent or knowledge) about sexual issues and abortion.
12. Teach kids to pursue legal remedies against parents who oppose their sexual experimentation.
StopCSE.org | How CSE Harms Children
Leftist liberals see no problem with these goals of SEICUS and CSE, but these perversions being forced onto American kids will do great damage to the future soundness and security of the whole nation if not stopped by people with good sense and morals.
A pompous buffoon would cloak nonsense with jargon and provide their critique with an air of sophistication by drawing on unusual vocabulary. When you make insinuations about me, you should try to have something to back it up. I have nothing to hide behind big words. If you are confused, you can always ask me to rephrase my point.
Where is your evidence that Democrats are literally busing in illegal immigrants by the tens of thousands?
maybe you can find a rock to hide kids under?
There is something to your claim, though I dislike the formulation. To make things clear, you're pointing out that naive atheists would argue that the "absence of evidence" is equivalent to the "evidence of absence." Yes, that is a fallacy, but it's not the most interesting aspect of the problem: the claim that there is "absence of evidence" is itself fundamentally problematic because "God did X" is not a scientific hypothesis. The power of God presumably knows no boundary, so there is no restriction on how he might do X, or on his ability to do X. Therefore, nothing can even in principle lead someone to conclusively reject "God did X." It might be true, and it might be false, but it is most certainly not science.
The less charitable way to read the argument made by some atheists is to do what you did. More charitably, I wonder what is the point of assuming the existence of God or claiming the existence of God when it is void of consequences for the kind of facts we should expect to see and the kind of facts we should expect not to see. God is presumably all-powerful, so everything and anything is possible. It adds exactly nothing to our capacity to understand how nature, human beings or societies work because omnipotence cannot constrain reality, by definition.
The existence of God might have normative consequences for how you experience life, make choices and behave, but it is thoroughly useless when plowing through data. Americans somehow have this belief that they have "to prove" God exists, that somehow their religious commitments are rationalized by connecting scripture to facts; and, the opposite for Atheists. I ignore the origins of this dispute, but I suspect it is due to path dependence: you're arguing like this because the dispute somehow was started on the battlefield of empirical relevance. It's probably the weakest possible argument you can make to defend the value of scripture and, for Atheists, trying to refute the existence of something that is compatible with every possible set of facts is about as stupid an exercise as it gets.
Leftist Americans are providing money and guidance to thousands of illegals in their home country, enabling them to travel to the US. The illegal immigrants are instructed by the Americans how to apply for asylum and to enter the country in a manner in which they cannot be turned away. Then American leftists criticize Border Control officials for upholding the laws they are sworn to uphold, comparing them to death squads in the 3rd Reich. That is inexcusable.
Read carefully what he is saying while asking yourself how a reasonable person could justify marke's objection to CSE. For reference, here is a line from his early statement:
I think he actually has a point, though some verbal cues in his statement might have prohibited many people from reading it with a cool mind. When someone on the right invokes concepts drawn from the lexicon of purity like "perversion," most people on the left immediately know they have to disagree. Actually, as every human being, they're not even aware of it.
One thing Marke gets right is that the CSE does embody a certain social vision: it is not merely descriptive, but in fact normative. To some extent, calling these objectives "sexual education" hides the fact we're imposing a view of sexuality on all children nationwide, irrespective of the objections made by their parents or by religious communities. I am quite sure everyone who laughs at Marke here would be reacting quite like Marke if the content of the CSE was dictated by Christian doctrines instead of a libertine attitude toward sexuality. The important question that is left aside here, in other words, is who gets to decide what to teach children? Almost everyone on the left here, it seems, condones the government deciding on behalf of everyone how children should learn about sexuality, what kind of topics should be covered and what kinds of opinions are acceptable in this context.
If we carefully reviewed the claims that sexual education reduces the prevalence of things both sides might agree are problems (say, teenage pregnancy and occurrence of sexually transmitted diseases), I would be surprised if the content of CSA irremediably helped in every aspect without fault. One thing Marke does point out and which is legitimate is that it does come with a message that tends to promote sexual activity. It's not obvious that if you increase sexual encounters, increase the number of partners and change the type of sexual activities by telling kids all of this is both natural and acceptable that also including a warning about wearing condoms is going to lead to a decrease in the aforementioned problem. That doesn't even take into account the possibility that any of these presumptions might turn out to be too simplistic, or just plain wrong. I am not sure you can reasonably assume you will get the effects you wish the program had. You would need empirical studies to make that claim, ideally work that you can tell is not sloppy.
By the way, none of this means that I agree with Marke, as I generally have only a few bones to pick with the list of goals he listed on page 1 of this thread. I just think it is unfair to cast Marke in the role of the bad guy because you happen to dislike his point of view.
Laws against pedophilia are committed exactly to that, to keep children "in the dark about sex". Are they bad?
Just because something exists it doesn't necessarily mean that children must experiment with it for educational purpose. What about those children who are not interested in sex and want nothing to do with it?
This is a good thing.
We don't need each parent teach each kid a different myth
how many different species of anti vaxxers can a country stand? Look at how the creationism dolts have set back our kids.
Now where were these schools hiding while I was growing up?
Do you actually believe that crap? You think teachers are going out of their way to teach kids to "disrespect parents who oppose sexual experimentation among kids"? You really can't see that is complete ludicrous propaganda?
Like you, I offer my opinions without force. Unlike you, I don't try to promote my views over others by claiming their views are thick with unjustified ignorance and bias while my views are calm, collected, reasonable and irrefutable.
:shock: :roll: That is absolutely untrue. It is everything you are doing in just about every post. And your posts are nothing but biased, unreasonable and totally refutable.
I get it. I am conservative and you are not. No wonder there is conflict.
I get it. I am conservative and you are not. No wonder there is conflict.
Eat, drink and be merry, all God-rejecting savages, because tomorrow they all die without hope.
No, that is not the issue. I can get on to some degree with conservatives but you are not just a conservative you are an extremely religious person who does nothing but judging people who do not live in a matter his fantasy book states.
You can tolerate conservatives, just not religious conservatives? I think that may have been exactly what Hillary was saying about herself by calling some conservatives "deplorables."
I don't think they are necessarily deplorable, I call their views on issue extremist and an extremism that I disagree with.
Leftist hedonist rebels against God have their standards and values and they think anyone outside the circle of those who promote such values are extremists.
There is no god, the bible is not accurate it is only the ramblings of people 2 centuries ago. And the values of 2019 are thank goodness a lot different from those of 2 thousand years ago. We are not ignorant anymore and that is how simple it is.