The Science of Scams website is devoted to debunking the paranormal scammers like Houdini did a century ago and magicians Penn and Teller are doing today in an assortment of areas. Combine not teaching critical thinking in the schools with a decline in science education and you get a gullible public who buy into hucksters in paranormal to religion to politics and so much more.
The tax which will be paid for [the] purpose [of education] is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance.
–Thomas Jefferson to George Wythe, 1786.
On the surface, I would tend to agree with this website, for the most part. Especially about the paranormal and psychics. But then it goes the other extreme, and discounts all religious belief. So I guess it advocates atheism, huh?
I’m not so will to toss it in concerning God, just because I think Global Warming is a hoax. But I do no longer believe that 99% of these Tv preachers, have any real religious calling from Him. Not when they live in pretty luxurious mansions. Instead of having very modest housing, and using the rest of their donations for the needs of the poor.
I thought this was going to be more about how school students aren’t getting the kind of practical education, to prepare them against the scams of the world. When you think of it. Most of free enterprise depends on such ignorance. School curriculum seems to be designed NOT to prepare kids, NOT to be victims of everything the advertising world can throw at them. Not to mention the US Army.
#22: Atheism is the result of coming to realize that religions, originally developed to explain the world and then to control the ignorant population, are just as invalid as the rest of these scams.
It always amazes me when skeptical people about everything else are unwilling to look at religion and belief in gods with the same critical eye.