My toddler has the exact same reaction when we tell him he can ' t watch Curious George . If he had it his way he would watch that show on replay . <| sep |> You look like the leader of my favorite podcast Giantbomb . And nice shirt . <| sep |> Critical thinking is a basic skill in todays world . We fail at teaching it to students in the US because the first thing you do when you learn to question things that people tell you , is question your religion . The church wants to stifle critical thinking as best it can , because it causes and immediate and permanent drop in church attendance . I ' m not trying to be harsh , but to me , belief in God is like and adult version of believing in Santa Claus . It ' s a complex fairy tale made up to control you and get you to hand over part of your pay . Other purposes religion serves , is to specifically control the minds and bodies of women , as well as to allow liars and manipulators to thrive and have a very lucrative career out in the open as priests . I know it ' s hard to come to grips with this and you probably never will , but it ' s necessary for human advancement and survival to eventually drop these beliefs in bronzeage mythology .