Contradictions identified...

imagine you're a senior in sda academy again:
in physics class you learn that SN87a blew up some 150,000 yrs ago...and we know it is that many light years away by simple optical triangulation, and that the Orion Nebula is a gaseous "cloud" about 1500 light yrs away.
while in Bible class, you hear that the universe was created less than 10,000 yrs ago, and that there is a hole in Orion thru which EGW's Holy City will "descend"....soon...and then God will burn to death most of your friends at public school who seem to be having way too much fun. You can only pray that the 2nd coming is deferred until you too can know the love of a woman.
in shop class, you learn to never sign for long term payments on a car without trying it out first and getting some guarantee....but in Bible class you learn that test drives are forbidden with your girlfriend. At least with the bad car, if it quits working, you can either sue the seller, the maker, or walk away and find another one...no court ordered papers required. and people don't look down on you as a failure (to love and maintain the car). and the car doesn't nag you to death forever for having turned it over to the next owner.
in history class you learn the Egyptians were building pyramids before the alleged flood....and in Bible class you hear that the flood cudda bypassed the pyramids...or the date is wrong....or whatever....but just read this and believe.
in geography class you learn there is oil and bitumen in Iraq, but not along the Nile....in Bible class you learn that's why Moses reed basket raft trip had to be waterproofed with pine pitch, while outside of class, surfing the web for "Sargon of Akkadia", you find the story probably was plagiarized from a thousand year older tale in Iraq, and the reed basket could therefore have been waterproofed with bitumen.
on friday nights your friends go to the movies. or the sock hop....your parents expect you to go to vespers and stop listening to Elvis or the ballgame...except you can call your relatives out on the left coast who can still listen to the game for three hrs after you have to give it up.
on saturdays, your neighborhood friends do sports and enjoy the present...
while, you, after squirming thru a hr or more on a hard bench with a tie cutting the circulation to your brain, hearing why sin is bad, after a meal of cold beans (so as not to light a fire on sabbath), you visit the shut ins and nursing homes and contemplate your future unless Jesus hurries up and comes back soon.
on sat nights, your friends go dancing...maybe even drinking and "necking".....you go roller skating,with the sponsors making sure that nothing touches other than your hands.
back in school on monday, your friends learn in biology class why marine mammals swim by flapping up and down..unlike fish which flap sideways....evolution says that at one time, whales were land animals, breathing air, and using legs to walk....in your biology class, you learn that flowers and mountains are pretty, and that evilution is bad, and leads people away from the truth.
near graduation, your friends plan their prom night, where yourfriends will really "graduate" into adulthood; but you, with your parents permission, you invite the shy gal with the skirt safely below her knees to the "formal" (dinner), where fri chick will be the closest thing to getting any.
after graduation, your friends apply to their best college choices, and some get accepted. you apply to the same schools, and admissions writes back asking...."where did you go to school?? and what are all those bible classes about?
so you apply to an sda college, where they accept mediocrity and scientific unpreparedness.
after marrying that shy gal with the long skirt, you later find out to your chagrin that religion actually DIVIDEs people..it rarely brings them together...but it does provide income for shrinks and divorce lawyers.
and later, when your own kids hear how poorly you were prepared for life, based on a faith based education, they transfer to the public school for a real education!!! and they stop going to church....where the scientifically willfully ignorant argue endlessly about dogma and who has the right belief, and whom God will burn to death later.
my worry? will the kids at least visit me in the nursing home on sabbaths?
Posted by: John Alfke

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mva1985 said:

baloney comes to mind.

there is quite a bit of untruth in that comment.

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sentipente said:

I think that a better use could have been found for those words. I hope this is not his best effort.

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Sophia7 said:

I've always been glad that I didn't go to academy.

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