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No US without God - Texas Christians seek to change history
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by LotusFlower | July 22, 2009 at 09:46 pm
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The Texas state education board is considering a proposal that would force religion into the school curriculum.
Christian fundamentalist advisors to the board including Reverend Peter Marshall, who asserts that Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment against tolerance for homosexuals, want the role of Christianity in the establishing of the United States to be central to the history curriculum with social studies.
Texas has already changed its science curricullum to include the consideartion of creationism whilst not going down the whole road to actually teaching creationism itself which was what the Texan Christian right advocated.
That Christianity played a part in the forming of ideas that developed the the formation of the US can't be denied but the extent to which and the slant that the Christian advisors to the board are advocating is up for question. Many feel that this move is one that seeks to introduce Christianity as a 'taught' subject into the US secular curriculum by the back door.
The Christian right is making a fresh push to force religion onto the school curriculum in Texas with the state's education board about to consider recommendations that children be taught that there would be no United States if it had not been for God.
Members of a panel of experts appointed by the board to revise the state's history curriculum, who include a Christian fundamentalist preacher who says he is fighting a war for America's moral soul, want lessons to emphasise the part played by Christianity in the founding of the US and that religion is a civic virtue.
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at 23:03 on July 22nd, 2009
The point is would America be better without a God? Answer not really as crime and sinning would be just the same. However perhaps court and government time would be saved and we all would have less to worry about as religion and politics don't really mix that well. Now the world with out religion would be a much peacefuller place.
at 17:20 on July 27th, 2009
A world without religion would not excist, think about it
at 00:33 on July 23rd, 2009
Seriously what the hell is wrong with this country anymore? You cannot just pick and choose the parts of the government you agree with and ignore the rest. SEPERATION BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE. The founding fathers knew that religious groups often avoided logic for belief (ben franklin said, "sewer systems are truly more important than churches".) and that it these ideologies need to be vacant in government in order for it to represent everyone.
I hear comments and decisions like allowing any religion to be forced upon our kids under the guise of higher learning and at tax funded institutions like public or state run schools is unacceptable.
Please somebody shoot the officials who are doing this, its the only decent thing to do now.
at 03:39 on July 23rd, 2009
Higher learning in my mind, would be Religions of the World as a curriculum, but not indoctrination into a religion, which this seems to be.
All religions believe in a higher power and personally I don't see how Creationism and Religion conflict. To shove one religion down the throat of students over another is just wrong.
at 03:52 on July 23rd, 2009
The US worry so much about the Taliban and they have them right at home, the only difference is they are Christian and not Muslim.
Iran's Islamic Republic US version.
The American Christian Republic. I think I may have to get a ride to the Space Station so I will still be able to think freely ad not get court marshal by either fundamentalist trying to impose their will onto the world.
at 04:55 on July 23rd, 2009
Well said Paschen.
at 14:44 on September 7th, 2009
Thankfully I will graduate from the Texas edu system this year and not have to put up with that crap. If this does pass history class will get interesting. Surely this idea will be struck down. What about seperation of church and state? There is no way something like this will end well.
at 10:10 on October 18th, 2009
To All of you who cite seperation of church and state, read what the constitution says about religion. It state the government will not establish a state church, or attempt to run religions. It never states the church and state will be seperated. Seperation of church and state was a comment made by ben franklin that has been forced into an imaginary law. (Most of our founding fathers were christians and many said god won the war and gave us this country.) Note also you can teach creationism without god, the theory is inteligent design and who is to say God is the designer, i may believe in God but other creation stories teach their god is the creator, so if your that upset about it substitute intelligent designer for god and than its just another theory not a religion.