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Knowledge Is Not Evil
There is a fundamental notion in many religions including the big monotheisms that knowledge is evil. This is carried over culturally in a thousand ways from the story of Frankenstein to the story of Adam and Eve.
 finsch  16 Nov 2009 22:48
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The knowledge of people can get so crazy that the nature gets distroyed.
 
 Hayden  30 Nov 2009 11:57
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I agree it isn't evil
"knowledge is like a light that brings the world from darkness into light
 
 raggaad  24 Nov 2009 17:22
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I don't understand how knowledge could be evil when it helps prevent us from being/acting evil.
 
 Cemetary  18 Nov 2009 15:50
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Knowledge is important for us
 
 Lara  17 Nov 2009 16:06
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Of course you are right. In fact I'd argue trying to convince someone to shut off their mind and simply believe and do what you tell them to do is far more likely to be the source of evil.
 
 Grenache  17 Nov 2009 11:03
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I agree with the statement, I also agree with the fact that monotheism's repress thinking and learning. Nations that have the best education (ie. Sweden, Japan, Canada) also have the highest amounts of outspoken atheists. Sweden - 85%, Japan - 65%, Canada - 55%
 
 cdnatheist  17 Nov 2009 03:41
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 ya knows, peope blame the fact the us isn't number one in education is because we dont spend enough. I think gotty and finschy made grand old points. There is church propaganda and plain laziness that plagues the untied states. (ha, that was a typo, but didnt bother correcting it because its true.)
by  respire
 17 Nov 2009 04:07
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I don't know where to vote... Knowledge isn't evil! After all, Jesus wants people to know the truth. But you can take shots at churches as long as you don'ttake shots at Jesus. Because Jesus has you covered. There is a difference between smarts and learning information yet reqining an idiot. But that aside, Jesus claimed truth and exposed events back then. Churches often cover up things.
 
 gottfried  17 Nov 2009 03:30
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Nah. Most humans are too busy to be enthralled by wide-range knowledge. People who live most waking moments trying to survive could care less about the knowledge gleaned from the science or sports pages.

Most kids in school are not enthralled by knowledge. They enjoy playing quite a bit though.

Then again, it can be said that there is knowledge in everything. There's knowledge in knowing how to play Mother May I.
 
 justsumguy  17 Nov 2009 17:29
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 I agree with most of what you say, but I'm uncertain how it pertains to the debate. You usually have a segue here but I think I missed it.
by  finsch
 17 Nov 2009 17:34
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I don't know about all churches, but I know my own catholic church is very impressed with people who have a high caliber of (general) knowledge. They sometimes ask them to serve as teachers.

But not all knowledge is good knowledge. Knowing how to waterboard somebody (that's only one example) is knowledge the church would not be interested in and might think it is unholy.
 
 tinseldove  17 Nov 2009 02:45
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 Some knowledge is useless. But is it evil? Maybe waterboarding is a knowledge. But in comparison to other knowledges, waterboarding is useless and rendered a waste unless you are a caveman with no civility.
Tormenting is wrong on many levels, especially civil and intellectual ones. Imagine the knowledge of these intellectual levels? knowledge can be matched against eachother in various forms considering ethics, importance pertaining to live, and value.
by  respire
 17 Nov 2009 04:13
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