Daniel Dennett

34 thoughts on “Daniel Dennett”

1. I LOVE IT.
   I wish we could implement this tomorrow 😉

   It's important enough to make it a mandatory requirement.
   I would be thrilled to see an organized push for this.

2. I WISH.

   Homeschooling might be the hardest 'nut' to crack.
   Other than Church, that's usually where most of the religious indoctrination takes place.

3. I dunno. It seems like just about every Christian has different opinions on which parts of the Bible are literal and which parts are metaphorical. I think you'd have a hard job figuring out and teaching just what Christianity is, let alone all the other world religions too.

4. I think it's a worthy subject, but our schools are struggling to teach kids the basics right now. We don't even pay most of our teachers a reasonable salary.

5. we should also have an education about atheism and atheists – all the facts, genocides they perpetrated and the utter shit storm they've created as well

6. Compulsory learning of primitive man's ignorant superstitious misunderstandings of the world. Further waste of time

7. But how will you brainwash the children?

8. Why?

9. Correct! Teaching comparative religion is the key to breaking the spell of divisive mind numbing religious superstition.

10. Florida would ban this

11. Main fact on all religions… they are all made up to try to control people.

12. It was.wonderful to see this man live

13. For instance, how the early development of all the major religions are illustrated and magnified by the development of for instance Mormonism and Scientology and in fact every little cult out there.
    We know that Hubbard knew that it was all fictional, to control the sheep and empower & enrich the leadership.
    So, all the highest leaders of all the religions are in fact what we'd call "hard" atheists.
    They know that it's all made up.

14. No way. My God is the true and only God and all those other religions are just big cults of Satan…

    And….here we go!

15. There is no way that anyone who endorses the study of religion in schools would ever endorse the actual study of religion in schools.

16. The Christians don't want it because they're afraid

17. German here. We had that in primary school, protestantism, catholicism, Islam and judaism. I was an atheist after 4th grade.

18. Dennett had a lot of respect for the very devout theists he met when writing Breaking the Spell, although he thought their faith was not founded in any reality. I’d need to be convinced though that this proposal has any merit: for one thing, staffing the course in the USA or elsewhere would be hard. You’d need folks genuinely judicious, disinterested in the USA if a parent didn’t like what the teacher said, the teacher might get shot.

19. The problem is finding people that will teach about multiple religions without glorifying their own while vilifying all the others. (Or vilifying all of them.) The best you'd get would be finding agnostics to teach the class. But I don't think agnostics are going to be interested enough in religion to fill spots all across the nation. Basically, the people that would want to teach this class the most probably shouldn't be teaching the class at all…

20. That’s exactly the way religions are taught in Swedish schools. Very helpful for our people.

21. Love it!

22. Especially about how Jesus is not the first, nor the last figure with the archetype or background and mythology surrounding him

23. Absolutely, as a Christian I say fine, but I don't think this should apply to the religion of atheism also and the religion of darwinian evolution. You see the problem is all people have a biased opinion. Christianity is open to test and choosing for yourself, it I'd less of religion and more relationship, relationships are not forced but chosen.

24. Yes! Especially the facts and archeology of Jesus, along with the facts of how impossible evolution is. Explain the facts in a straight forward way, let them decide what to do with it

25. My grandfather who was the pastor of the pentecost church, used to leave his bibles around the house, one day I decided to read that book, I was 17 years old by then, the more I read it the more I felt like the author or authors of the book were undermining my intelligence.

26. We had this course in Quebec. Will be change this year.

27. He makes a great point, I've been taking the dove on this subject. From a platonic logical standpoint. Ultimately the origins is the mystery and most of it has no support outside the human mind. It's one of the chapters in my book. It would take me a while book to get into the real bread and butter 360. Very time consuming. There is intelligent design, what is typically taught is escapism mentality, even in the spiritual religionless sect. There is evidence of a higher power intelligence inside all life.

28. I understand what you're saying–and I'm not a developmental psychologist, so I'm uncertain when teaching religion facts to children. But I do think it should be a priority and we should do what it takes to train young people how to think so they can avoid the damage inculcated by religious figures, teachers, and numerous authority figures that simply seek to pour facts into their young brains, which get passed along generationally.

    Not every kid will make it through the educational system. Equipping them early on with thinking skills will give them a better chance of not only graduating from high school, but loving learning for life.

29. I don't think we should waste our kid's valuable time in schools on ridiculous religious mythology.

30. People would prefer you teach their kids that you dont jave to be a boy or a girl but whatever makes you feel good instead.

31. 😮Damn,🤔what age you think a kid's mind should be to hear some of the horrors that were commited in the name of a "Creator"? No matter the name "God" , "Mary","Jesus","Ganesha", "Allah","Moses" "Abraham" "Muhammed" "Vishnu" & even "Buddha", ALOT of sick stuff,death, suffering, & deep existential sh*t, information that opens door to more questions that have no answers, that alone is too much for adult to consume in a sitting or at once, a kid would have to be able to draw conclusions on the fact that these were barbaric times, the way people lived then has changed & should be factored when they establish their opinion. Kids cant do that well especially with video games, "i am gonna get 6 stars like on GTA, no better yet, ima race car driver with a need for speed."😂

32. About all the fallacy false inference indoctrination & murderous supremecy!
    Warren Jeff's Applewhite Jonestown Manson and David Koresh included!!

33. Yo, european here.
    We learned about religions at around 7 years of age. If i wasn't already an atheist, it would've gotten me thinking.

34. …. and the fact there is no god

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