RW Religious Zealot trying to install creationism in schools....

[charlyvi]

in Pennsylvania says:


Christians are a lot more bold under Bush's leadership, he speaks what a lot of us believe," said Mummert.

"We've been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of the culture," he said, adding that the school board's declaration is just a first step.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1548&ncid=1548&e=1&u=/afp/20050327/lf_afp/uspoliticsreligion

OMG! All of us intelligent, educated folks need to stop the persecution!!!! We need to SEE again!!!

[POAS]

1. Yep let's turn it over to the stupid and uneducated...n/t

[mmonk]

2. don't worry

the newly elected school boards around the country will give it their best shot.

[Bob3]

3. Well now I've heard everything

Intelligence and education are bad things.

You know there was a time when religious values were paramount in Western Civilization.

they are known as the dark ages.

ARggggggggg.

:banghead:

[charlyvi]

7. True.

I happen to think JC was a liberal--he came to reject all the codificatin of religion up to that point. The RW seems mostly Old Testament to me--fire and brimstone, revenge, burn in hell. Exactly what JC tried to end. Whether or not there is eternal life, whether there are punishments or rewards hereafter, I don't know. I do know that JC was an example, whether a religious one or not, of how a morally and ethically just life should be lived. It's something that the RW zealots have overlooked. Tolerance, peace, acceptance--not in their view of things. Sigh.

[donco6]

4. Poor God.

"It took 30 or 40 years to eliminate God in school, it will take probably 30 or 40 years to get him back. You take a little step first, a little bite, then another little bite and another," said Steve Farrell, a nursery keeper, who dreams of the return to prayer in class.

Poor God. Although he created the universe in 6 days, he can't get back into those schools all by hisself.

No offense, but if it were me, I'd be looking for someone a little more powerful to worship.

[charlyvi]

9. These RW zealots want to replace God.

After all, THEY know best!

[Tux]

11. If I were god

I'd look for better worshipers.

[charlyvi]

13. Bwhahahah!

More educated, intelligent ones perhaps?

[Tux]

15. Er no

More educated, intelligent, and willing to discuss things. Do I exist? Do I care? Did that dog speak to me? I would want followers that would live thier lives, wonder about me when they had time, and try to figure things out. Mostly have them get along with each other, in and out of the group. And give me ice cream on Sundays as an offering.

[charlyvi]

17. Careful, Tux.

You're in danger of sliding down that slippery slope from theology to philosophy! NOT ALLOWED----NOT ALLOWED! Jerry Falwell says so.

:crazy:

[Tux]

18. Dang

Thought you meant a slope to Hell. Why I plan it, there could be a new ruler....

[gollygee]

5. Heaven forbid intelligent educated people have influence over the schools

:/

[Midnight Rambler]

6. Damn smart people

[charlyvi]

10. They're loony heretics,

aren't they?:evilgrin:

:evilfrown:

[Tux]

8. Who is really brain dead in this nation?

"If we continue to indoctrinate our young people with non-religious principles, we're headed for an internal destruction of this society,"
Live in a secular, scientific, captialist nation and that happens. Iran loves religious fudies.

"We've been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of the culture,"
Nothing worse than PhDs raising towns to the ground. They're relentless and without mercy. Why, kids are thier favorite target and try to get them into college. The horrors!

"It took 30 or 40 years to eliminate God in school, it will take probably 30 or 40 years to get him back. You take a little step first, a little bite, then another little bite and another," said Steve Farrell, a nursery keeper, who dreams of the return to prayer in class.
A local minister in my town likes to tell people that as long as teachers give tests, there will always be prayer in schools. Oh he wants to have everyone convert to Christianity so his fragile beliefs are intact and everyone agrees with him.

[charlyvi]

12. So.

Education is not education anymore. It's indoctrination. OMG!

[Tux]

14. Like it never was

However, a good school will allow the kids to think. Throwing out this creationism trash and allow good science will allow the kids to know what is crap and what is good by use of evidence and critical thinking. Just accepting something on faith (religious or otherwise) is wrong for a person since it could be used against them (ever listen to the credit card salesperson at colleges during the 90's?). The more our nation can think on it's own, the faster we can solve our problems.

[charlyvi]

16. I went through the Chicago public school system....

and was NEVER taught creationism. In that sense, there was no indoctrination. Creationism was for church, not public education. In the sense, I had a choice. My fear is that choice will not be an option in the future if they succeed. Once again, OMG!

[ck4829]

19. "We've been attacked by the intelligent"

OMG, is this what our country is being turned into.

If the 'christian' Rightists are allowed to go the whole way, we may in fact be in a worse position than Iran or Saudi Arabia.