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State Rep. Gary Hopper believes teaching children the theory of evolution results in a hopelessness that is one of the primary factors motivating teenagers to commit mass shootings.
In Hoppers telling of evolutionary theory which he recounted during an episode of his online talk show, Rock, Paper, Hand Grenades there was nothing, and out of some freak accident, everything. The earth just happened to be exactly in the right location for life to be created there, he said. Life was an inadvertent accident.
If you are a child raised in a situation and youre depressed, you could look at that particular piece of information and conclude that we are no better or worse than any other parasite on the planet, Hopper said. And if you follow the logic of the science in school today, not only are you a parasite on the planet, you are destroying the host that you are born on.
So thats one variable. Hopelessness. No point. You have no point in your life, Hopper concluded.
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Turbineguy
(38,440 posts)on its own.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)dameatball
(7,603 posts)HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)I believe I evolved from an ape-like creature into a sentient human being. Mr. Hopper does not believe he has so evolved. It appears we are both correct.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)that "cloud daddy" life will be even better. It's not a thing. THIS IS. Make the fucking most of it.
is another way of looking at the randomness of this life we have. Because I have to tell you, the alternative, that some mysogynistic, egomaniac, bipolar "creator" with serious anger issues..is our "salvation"??? Yeah, now THAT is fucking depressing.
dameatball
(7,603 posts)If she had taken....oh 4 billion years, this argument would be moot
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Every gun nut that I encounter usually has a bible in hand.