Louisiana: Faith Healing Should Be Allowed in Science Class

[Solitary]

Sorry about that it should have been for you know who.  :oops:  Bill

[stromboli]

Louisiana: Faith Healing Should Be Allowed in Science Class

And snake handling should be allowed in PE.

And tap dancing. Tap dancing snake handling. While speaking in tongues.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

Look. I've said it REPEATEDLY over and over on this site. The ONLY true science is the science of ONE special fairy who pays cold, hard cash for childrens teeth.
I think we all know who I'm referring to..

Ok, so I never claimed it was science, but in light of the great state of Louisiana I think it has a ring of truth to it now. :)

[Seabear]

The only class they teach in the south is stupidity.  In that, they get an A.

Arizona says: "You sure are black, Mr. Kettle!"

And snake handling should be allowed in PE.

FTW!

While speaking in tongues.

This would be for credit in foreign language, not science, silly.

We can teach immaculate conception in Health class, and resurrection in Biology!

Creationism is becoming increasingly pathetic in it's willful ignorance. Oh, and deceit, I forgot that. Keep trying to square that circle, Xtians.

[stromboli]

If I was a science teacher, faith healing would last about six minutes on the first day, just long enough to point out the studies done that disproved it. Probably about as long as I'd last as a teacher.

[gussy]

Elbert Guillory had a novel argument in defense of LSEA: It should not be repealed because he doesn't want to "prematurely" declare that faith healing is "pseudo-science."

Why not let them teach it at the state's medical schools then?

[Colanth]

I'd say they should teach children all about faith healing in science class.

Chop a leg off one kid in class and they can have a faith healer grow it back on the spot.. That'll confirm their belief.  =D>

I wouldn't go that far, Marty - chopping off a kid's leg.

But I don't have a problem with faith healing in school.  Let them heal all the kids they want - teachers too.  Someone comes to school with the flu?  Poof, they're cured.  A kid gets hurt on the playground?  Forget the nurse, call for the faith healer.

Or they can just limit faith healing to their church for a year or two.  After half the congregation dies, it won't be "premature" to declare faith healing a non-science.

(Yeah, I know - they'll declare that faith healing works 100% of the time that God wants it to.  Which, so far in modern times, seems to have been 0% of the time.)

[Krisyork2008]

I just don't understand how this shouldn't also apply to every single other religious teaching that butts heads with evolution.

If you want to be fair, fucking teach them all. That would get them to change their mind, eh?

Off topic... I spent a week in Beaumont tx working for discover the dinosaurs. I didn't meet too many people there that were hardcoreatards, but the sketchiest part was that they treated weed like heroin.

People went on freaking lockdown when they smoked. It was just such a shock to me coming from Massachusetts, and then Colorado.

Idk, y'all southerns are all crazy man.

[the_antithesis]

It's not a science, anyway. It's a superstition.

[widdershins]

If I was a science teacher, faith healing would last about six minutes on the first day, just long enough to point out the studies done that disproved it. Probably about as long as I'd last as a teacher.

As it should be.  Science class is no place for facts and critical thinking.

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Thanks! I was trying to show how those that think? faith healing should be taught in science class think and are trying to undermine science with their nonscience and hurt themselves. How is that off topic?  :P  Bill

No what I was saying was off topic.
 :rollin:

[Brian37]

Ugg

[The Non Prophet]

Hey Bobby Jindal, what happened to not being the "stupid party" like you mentioned?

[The Non Prophet]

Why stop at faith healing, let's teach crystal healing or Muslim faith healing or other pseudo scientific claims they may not share, why stop at one falsity Louisiana?

[Colanth]

Hey Bobby Jindal, what happened to not being the "stupid party" like you mentioned?

They're too stupid to realize when they're being stupid.  It's like a positive feedback system.