Thom Hartmann: Christian Textbooks Reveal The Loch Ness Monster Real

[thomhartmann]

What is Accelerate Christian Education - and what's in its curriculum? Thanks to Governor Bobby Jindal - the public school system in Louisiana is in trouble. Thanks to a new law, thousands of students in Louisiana will receive state voucher money for the 2012-2013 school year to leave public school - and instead attend private religious schools - some of which teach an ultra radical Christian curriculum. And - students in Louisiana aren't alone. Similar programs are running in states across the country - where taxpayer money is being used to fund education filled with the most outlandish of pseudoscience and misinformation. So - if you think that all schools teach that the Loch Ness Monster is fake - and that dinosaurs came before humans - then everything you know is wrong! Joining me now is Bruce Wilson - Co-founder and Editor of Talk to Action and Contributor to AlterNet.

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[dregstudios]

1. Backward Concepts

Here in TN, they have taken steps though new legislation to allow creationism back into the classroom. This law turns the clock back nearly 100 years here in the seemingly unprogressive South and is simply embarrassing. There is no argument against the Theory of Evolution other than that of religious doctrine. The Monkey Law only opens the door for fanatic Christianity to creep its way back into our classrooms. You can see my visual response as a Tennessean to this absurd law on my artist’s blog at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2012/04/pulpit-in-classroom-biblical-agenda-in.html with some evolutionary art and a little bit of simple logic.