“At that time, we were expecting our first child, a baby girl. All seemed well until about six months, when our baby stopped growing. We found out she had Trisomy 18, a fatal chromosomal abnormality. Our daughter, Ellinor, was stillborn soon after. It was the most devastating loss of our lives. For a while I despaired, and didn’t know how I could go on after the death of our daughter. But I finally had a clear vision of our little girl in the loving arms of her heavenly Father, and it was then that I had peace. I reflected that, after all these trials in one year, my husband and I were not only closer to each other, but also felt closer to God. My faith was real.“
Imagine the inhumanity of those working to convince women that they should kill their child when this is the normal response to losing a child. Then imagine what those women will have to live with the knowledge that they were the ones to kill their own child.
Her child died so she felt better by believing a fantasy about life after death.
A Christian who is an educated scientist is a case of being an idiot savant. People are like that in general, and I do not count myself as entirely immune from the phenomena of being expert about some things and an idiot about other things. I am just more rational than most people about religion and god, whereas the OP story is about a person who is profoundly irrational about things outside of her field of education.
That is also commonplace, that a person can go to school and learn a very great deal in a particular field, and then go on to excel in that field professionally, and remain entirely dull witted in other fields. That's just how the human brain works.
In general, however, the more intelligent and the more educated people are the more they reject mythologies such as Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and all the other thousands of religious myths.
The uneducated, unintelligent, untraveled, and indoctrinated, on the other hand, tend strongly to such mythologies (religions).
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“At that time, we were expecting our first child, a baby girl. All seemed well until about six months, when our baby stopped growing. We found out she had Trisomy 18, a fatal chromosomal abnormality. Our daughter, Ellinor, was stillborn soon after. It was the most devastating loss of our lives. For a while I despaired, and didn’t know how I could go on after the death of our daughter. But I finally had a clear vision of our little girl in the loving arms of her heavenly Father, and it was then that I had peace. I reflected that, after all these trials in one year, my husband and I were not only closer to each other, but also felt closer to God. My faith was real.“
Imagine the inhumanity of those working to convince women that they should kill their child when this is the normal response to losing a child. Then imagine what those women will have to live with the knowledge that they were the ones to kill their own child.
Her child died so she felt better by believing a fantasy about life after death.
A Christian who is an educated scientist is a case of being an idiot savant. People are like that in general, and I do not count myself as entirely immune from the phenomena of being expert about some things and an idiot about other things. I am just more rational than most people about religion and god, whereas the OP story is about a person who is profoundly irrational about things outside of her field of education.
That is also commonplace, that a person can go to school and learn a very great deal in a particular field, and then go on to excel in that field professionally, and remain entirely dull witted in other fields. That's just how the human brain works.
In general, however, the more intelligent and the more educated people are the more they reject mythologies such as Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and all the other thousands of religious myths.
The uneducated, unintelligent, untraveled, and indoctrinated, on the other hand, tend strongly to such mythologies (religions).
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