This is my experience as well.

If, when you say "God", you actually mean "universal ethical theorem for sentient life" or something other than "supernatural being that created/help create the world", you're probably best off coming up with a different word; the one you're currently using has been hopelessly entangled in its present context, and continuing to use it for something other than that will only result in confusion.

I hated school because it was boring. I didn't exactly hate the teachers, but I didn't have any concept that they might want to teach something.

Back when I was in highschool, a friend and I were accidentally sorted into a general level course, when by rights we should have been put in an AP-level course. Neither of us ever really got anything out of the teacher's lectures, and were able to ace the tests purely on knowledge gained from reading the textbook; consequently, we were bored out of our minds in class, and amused ourselves by competing to lure the teacher off on increasingly interesting and increasingly irrelevant tangents. A side result of this was that the other students, who actually needed a the hear the subject explained by a teacher, got shafted. I should note, however, that neither of us had any real animosity towards the teacher or the students -- in fact, we absolutely adored the teacher; rather than being a malicious attempt to disrupt the class, we saw it as merely a friendly game between the two of us that happened to negatively effect other people's learning of the material -- a consequence that we were indifferent towards.

The story's primary sin is economic unrealism; cultural unrealism is arguable.

Would you mind elaborating on that?

Probably the only two examples that I can think of from my personal experience are:

1) A post that one of my old high school classmates made on face book saying (and I paraphrase): "[the existence of a personal god] is literally too good to be true, which is why we should believe it."

2) Being forced to take a class in "critical thinking" which actually turned out to utilize pretty much every dark arts technique in the book to convert you of the professor's political agenda.

Is this the right room for an argument?

Edit: I seemed to have failed my spot test to notice that some else in the thread had aready linked to the same video.

Alternately, they just wanted a girl and kept trying until they got one.

Back in the old days, there was no concept of religion being a separate magisterium. The Old Testament is a stream-of-consciousness culture dump: history, law, moral parables, and yes, models of how the universe works. In not one single passage of the Old Testament will you find anyone talking about a transcendent wonder at the complexity of the universe. But you will find plenty of scientific claims, like the universe being created in six days (which is a metaphor for the Big Bang), or rabbits chewing their cud. (Which is a metaphor for...)

As far as glaring scientific errors regarding rabbits, saying that they chew their cud is relatively mild. At one point, there was a tradition in medieval Japanese folk Buddhism claiming that rabbits were actually birds, that their ears were actually wings (or in some sources, feathers), and that they "flew" by hopping. This was all apparently meant to circumvent dietary restrictions that prohibited eating of mammals but allowed for poultry. As a result of all this, the Japanese language uses the same counter word for both birds and rabbits.

The problem with saying that we should make life more fair is that life is often unfair with regard to our ability to make it more fair.

Upvoted, for having the exact same thought as I did when reading the parent post.