Curiosity Doesn’t Kill

Considering the country we live in I find this ‘hand in mouth’ policy a little hard to stomach. We are raised in a predominantly Christian society but it’s also a country with a vast amount of people from foreign lands and different faiths. So how come we seem to be afraid to speak about the things we believe in and find it offensive when others try to. Why are we so afraid of each other? Why are someone else’s beliefs so offensive? We seem to be perpetually asleep in a nightmare of political correctness that ends up contradicting the very values it sets out to correct.

I think we live in a very confused world, especially our generation. Our schooling and the media have only succeeded in moulding us into intolerant racists. I find it almost amusing that in school I could walk out of a religious education lesson and straight into a physics or biology lesson. If you think of it this way is there any wonder why we’re so confused. R.E teaches us that God created the world in seven days yet physics teaches us that it was the ‘Big Bang’ theory. R.E teaches us that God created man in his own image but biology disagrees with the theory of evolution as its argument. Basically I think the book of Genesis needs revising. . Don’t get me wrong I’m not blaming the teachers for this. After all they are only trying to do there job and a very hard one it is too. What I am saying is that a lot of these kids are getting such mixed messages it’s no surprise that a lot of them leave school not knowing what is right or wrong.

Imagine a kid from a deeply religious family whose been brought up to believe everything the bible says. Imagine how this child will feel when he’s suddenly being told by a guy wearing thick rimmed glasses with patches on the elbows of his grey cord jacket that everything he believes in is a lie. The child will run home to mummy and daddy and say ‘mummy, this teacher in school told us that god didn’t create the world’ and the mother would say ‘it doesn’t matter it’s just another point of view’. WHAT!!!! The whole idea of another point of view had never occurred to this child. Now God has become the next fake figure in a long line of crushing disappointments like the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus only with far more sinister repercussions. It’s not a bunny that leaves those eggs it was mummy and daddy. It’s not Father Christmas that leaves those gifts it was mummy and daddy. It wasn’t God that created the world it was…………shit! How do we explain this one. I don’t think any parents delusions of grandeur stretch quite that far.