Christians who believe the world is about it end: Do you think children should still be going through school?
If the End Times are now and Jesus' return is imminent, do you feel it's a waste of time and money for kids to be going to school and learning math, science, history, sociology etc? It's it a waste of time to teach kids to drive? A waste of time to vote? If you believe most of us will be dead and some of you will be taken up to Heaven within your life, what point is there in learning anything beyond how to be a good Christian? Should you allow your child to read anything but the Bible?
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1. Disclaimer I don't think the world is about to end but I am christian' 2. I think it's a waste of time to put our children through the American school system, yes. 3. They don't teach you to drive here. They don't teach us how to think here, let alone vote wisely. 4. Yes, we need to learn how to be the best we can be, but there is much value in learning about many things. 5. Yes you should allow your children to read whatever they please.
I think the American school system has a lot of flaws and it's easy from this place of privilege to deride it but overall it is still a vastly superior educational system to those that have existed before.
Other than that i agree.
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@Pikachu It is. I tend to be pretty cynical about it but it's good that it's there
In many ways it's not great and in many ways its worse than what other countries have got but it's still producing relatively well educated humans lol
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@Pikachu It's definitely gone down hill since I graduated in 2014 but hey. So to your question, are there actually people that think "Well the world is ending might as well give up"
Well there are absolutely Christians who think the world is about to end. My question is trying to identify whether they think there's any point to education beyond what the bible teaches given that the world is going to burn in a few years.
