compartmentalized fantasy<\/a>. It\u2019s a suffocating, oppressive worldview through which believers must interpret reality\u2014and its primary target is children. For creationists, intellectual inquiry is a sin, and anyone who dares to doubt the wisdom of their doctrine invites eternal damnation. That\u2019s the perverse brilliance of creationism, the key to its self-perpetuation: First it locks kids in the dungeon of ignorance and dogmatic fundamentalism. Then it throws away the key.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The quotation is taken from Mark Joseph Stern\u2019s recent\u00a0Slate article \u201cThe Cruelty of Creationism\u201d or \u201cHow Creationism Imprisons the Mind.\u201d Click through to read more of it. Creationism\u2026isn\u2019t a harmless,\u00a0compartmentalized fantasy. It\u2019s a suffocating, oppressive worldview through which believers must interpret reality\u2014and its primary target is children. For creationists, intellectual inquiry is a sin, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":21594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[1790,14016],"class_list":["post-21593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-young-earth-creationism","tag-children","tag-young-earth-creationism"],"yoast_head":"\n
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