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Comment Re:spare the rod, spoil the child (Score 1) 273

Give them fine music & jazz, fine art

What music and art is "fine" is an entirely subjective opinion, so this is a meaningless statement. Personally I find a fair proportion of jazz a turgid cacophony. Why would I subject my children to that?

Give them whatever they enjoy and whatever will expand their horizons.

Comment Re:Still Nonsense though (Score 1) 669

The pope says we have. "He created human beings and let them develop according to the internal laws that he gave to each one so they would reach their fulfillment."

His problem is that he wants his proclamation to mean something to each individual, a sentiment safely within religions' comfort-zone. Yet evolution means very little for individuals, only to species. So he's come out with a fudge that tries to gloss over the distinction and invents these "internal laws" that pre-defines the direction of evolution towards an end goal of fulfilment. That's not what evolution is.

So according to the infallible one, either I have reached my fulfilment, or human beings have. Which one is it? And how is this distinguished from a god with a magic wand?

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