how do people like this function in a multicultural society?

Makes perfect sense to me. Remember -- this was a course, with exams. She might have to lie to get credit, effectively, and I can see not wanting to do that.

Listening to other opinions is one thing -- being taught them is another. I'm walking out of any class that requires me to be taught as if I'm a religion that I'm not.

Didn't he ask to be crucified that way, because he was all macho and shit?

It was that he didn't think himself worthy to die the same way as Jesus.

DH works with an actuary who will not let his son play with toy dinosaurs, since they're not in the bible. He thinks the fossils were placed here on Earth to test man's faith.

I was taught that this was a possibility, but they pretty much left the issue of dinosaur fossils open

Dinosaurs went extinct when Noah couldn't fit them in the ark. But he felt guilty about it, so he wrote them out of Genesis.

I love the Robot Chicken clip of the unicorns and a few other mythical beasts missing the Ark. Then the merman and the mermaid come and mock their own pathetic attempts to build a boat. So. Freakin'. Funny.

A serious question: how do people like this function in a multicultural society?

I seriously think they don't. They just enter a cocoon somewhere they'll feel safe enough to function--leaving it only to evangelize or whatnot.

It was that he didn't think himself worthy to die the same way as Jesus.

Huh. I was taught that he wanted to suffer more than Jesus or something. Or maybe I'm remembering it wrong.

I'm pretty sure our Cindy functions quite nicely in a multicultural society, and she's a conservative Christian.

Kong of the Jews

Just DIES picturing Jesus on the Empire State Building.

how do people like this function in a multicultural society? It's got to be awfully difficult, going to work every day and meeting people who are, e.g., different religions or downright atheists. Do they just end every conversation with a mental "You're going to hell, you sinner"? I think probably they have to do a lot of mental gymnastics when they make friend with a Unitarian or something.

Many people like this hope to put an end to a multicultural society. They work and pray for the world to be Christianized. Many generations of missionaries have gone out with the holy goal of turning those "benighted heathens" to the True Path. One of the excuses for slavery in the South was that "all those poor African souls have now been exposed to Christianity."

Didn't he ask to be crucified that way, because he was all macho and shit?

Closer to - didn't feel worthy to be crucified in the same way as Christ.

I inevitable cross-post (started to use x-post, but it looked too close to the subject matter).

vw too. I think you're extrapolating quite a bit, both for that particular student, and then outwards to a whole lot of people.