Teach the Bible? ALLL of the Bible?

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Oklahoma Orders Schools to Teach the Bible

How to Truthfully Teach History Now that Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters Orders Schools to Teach The Bible:

Oklahoma Superindentent Ryan Walters Orders Schools to teach the Bible so students will learn the “substantial influence on our nation’s founders and the foundational principles of our Constitution. Immediate and strict compliance is expected,” the memo noted. Walters continued at a state Board of Education meeting Thursday, saying, “We’ll be teaching from the Bible in the classroom to ensure that this historical understanding is there for every student in the state of Oklahoma.”

Teaching the Bible in Oklahoma:

Ryan Walters must be a true Consitutionalist and believer in education. How grateful we should feel that we now are required to teach our children the role religion played in our nation’s founding–Specifically: how the Founding Fathers, many professed Deists, wanted a strict separation of Church and State. By examining their own words and writings, Ryan Walters might cause students to learn about how:

*George Washington assured a Jewish Congregation there will be no mandated Christian state-religion. *Jefferson wrote his own Bible removing supernatural elements and pens the Act for the Establishing Religious Freedom. *Benjamin Franklin reflected on the loss of his faith and the importance of religious tolerance in The Parable Against Persecution. *James Madison requested that state funds not be used for religious institutions. John Locke combined his religious faith and religious tolerance from the empirical methods of the Age of Enlightenment. *John Adams assured Muslims that America and Islam were friends and not enemies. *to Compare and Contrast the American Constitution and The Ten Commandments to see which laws appear in both, and which don’t, while also comparing ancient laws like Hamarabi’s code to see the development of morality and laws through the ages. *And so much more

The Separation of Church and State:

There’s no need to fear teaching the Bible as a Historical Document. Students will learn that The Founding Father’s never intended America to be a Christian nation. Students will learn how differing Founding Fathers had differing religous beliefs and created the laws of the Constitution to protect freedom of religion. Surely this is what Ryan Walters intends by his edict: To educate the future of America as to the true history and beliefs of The Founding Fathers: The Christians, The Deists, The Atheists, the Unitarians, the Undeclared. Because Ryan Walters is an honorable man, as are they all honorable men. Surely, no honorable man would be intending this edict in an attempt to be un-Constitutional or for nefarious ends? Only the ACLU knows…

Malicious Compliance:

In the event that Ryan Walters intends to force one religion over another in the United States of America, there is no need for any Roman knives in the senate. We, as teachers, can teach The Bible. Teach how The Bible demands the death penalty for wearing mixed fibers in Leviticus (Sorry, Timmy, your cotton/nylon blend P.E. shorts condemn you to eternal damnation). Teach how Thomas Jefferson said, “Every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty … they have perverted the purest religion ever preached to man into mystery and jargon.” So teach honestly about the founding fathers and The Bible and see what happens. The Sun is the greatest disenfectant. Ryan Walters: Come towards the light…

Freedom from Religion

 

Church and State

What the Founding Fathers said about church and state.

 

 

 

 

The United States is not a Christian nation.

Bibles, hypocrites, and venn diagrams

In the name of all that is holy

 

The separation of church and state is there for a reason.

 

Republican Sharia Law

Ben Franklin Put an Abortion Recipe in His Math Textbook

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• Amnesty.org - Basic facts about Abortion

• Gynopedia - a nonprofit organization that runs an open resource wiki for sexual, reproductive, and women's health care around the world

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• National Network of Abortion Funds - connects you with organizations that can support your financial and logistical needs as you arrange for your abortion.

• Planned Parenthood - A Comprehensive Guide for Unplanned Pregnancy

• RAINN - National Sexual Assult Hotline

• Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice - a network of ministers and rabbis that refer women to abortion providers they had researched and found to be safe

• Texas Equal Access Fund - provides emotional and financial support to people who are seeking abortion care.

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• Planned Parenthood

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Why am I in this handbasket and why is it getting so warm?

Drowning in our own garbage.

Let the United States Holy Wars begin!  Lo, the Lord sayeth, smite them, smite them, smite them!!

Surviving the flesh eating virus, lightning, and boobs.

The dangers of for-profit schools and prisons, and why the Republicans are embracing them wholeheartedly: More bodies, more money to wring out of them, and no oversight! Such a deal! Quality of schooling and dedication to returning prisoners to society are not involved:

Leonard invokes the “numerous lawsuits” against a company called Corinthian Colleges, including one in which a former admissions officer described high-pressure, even bullying recruitment tactics at one of the company’s schools, Everest: “The ultimate goal was to essentially make [potential students] wallow in their grief,” the admission officer’s affidavit says, feel that pain of having accomplished nothing in life, and then use that pain as their “reasons” to compel the leads to schedule an in-person meeting with an Everest admissions representative. A spokesman for Corinthian denied this account of its recruiting, but, as Leonard writes, “there’s little question that an obsessive focus on constantly boosting enrollment is crucial to survival in the for-profit college world. Sky-high withdrawal rates plague the industry.”

Further down in the same article:

Chang’s series in the Times-Picayune, meanwhile, took a close look at how it is that Louisiana nearly doubled its prison population in the past twenty years, to become the state with the highest per-capita incarceration rate in the country—the highest in the world, in fact. (Adam Gopnik has written for The New Yorker about our mass-incarceration culture.) What Chang finds is a system under which the state began housing the majority of its inmates in for-profit facilities, many of them run by cash-strapped local sheriffs and some by private prison companies. Both have a financial incentive to keep the prisons full— like hotels, prisons in Louisiana don’t want any vacancies. “If the inmate count drops, sheriffs bleed money,” writes Chang. “Their constituents lose jobs. The prison lobby ensures this does not happen by thwarting nearly every reform that could result in fewer people behind bars.”

I hate acknowledging that I am an agnostic

Because religious extremism is on the rise in the United States and the polarization of opinions means I am shunted off into the loony bin with the crackpots.  Luckily, I am unafraid of science, math, evolution, reason, logic, intelligence.  Questions cannot destroy what is true.  Understanding is strength.

Neil deGrasse Tyson explains what happens when religious extremism takes over the scientific community.  Is the United States going the same way?

Arizona follows Utah and Virginia off the cliff

Arizona:Arizona Senate Passes Bill Allowing Doctors To Not Inform Women Of Prenatal Issues To Prevent Abortions

Virginia: Va. governor signs pre-abortion ultrasound bill

The rest of the states are under attack....

The Religious Right's Plot To Take Control Of Our Public Schools

The people who brought you "Jesus Camp" are moving into your neighborhood school. And there's not a damn thing you can do about it.

Benighted, bigoted, burka'ed

If only all our political arguments were this simple.

Or religious ones.

Occupy Mars!

A good overview of the police brutality with the Occupy movement.  The cop group coordinating the Occupy crackdowns.  Controlling the media.

Paul Krugman: Newt Gingrich Is ‘A Stupid Man’s Idea Of What A Smart Person Sounds Like’.  Newt also thinks secular governments are scary.

In Cain and Perry's gaffes, the Republicans' degradation is laid bare.

Air bubbles confirm permafrost CO2 release:

Bubbles of air trapped in ice long ago are helping paint a clearer picture of what may happen to atmospheric carbon dioxide levels in the future if climate change melts the northern hemisphere's permafrost, scientists say.

The Mars rover Spirit’s entire five-year mission, in less than three minutes:

Atheists more Christian in behavior than Christians

High School Student Stands Up Against Prayer at Public School and Is Ostracized, Demeaned and Threatened. When a high school atheist tried to stop prayer at his graduation, he was harassed and kicked out of his house. But the atheist community stepped in.

Proving again why we must have a clear separation of church and state. And no public prayer in schools. Or else include EVERY type of prayer imaginable.... reformed Druid, Pastafarian.....

Making it clear.

Be afraid of Sharia law sneaking in and perverting our Constitution!1!! ... because we actually want to allow Christianity to sneak in and pervert our Constitution.

News worth not pulling your hair out

Zack is 17-year-old high school senior at Baton Rouge Magnet High School. What sets him apart from his peers – and why we’re making him this week’s Skeptical Ninja – is his tireless efforts in ridding creationism from Louisiana’s science classrooms.

He’s already won a victory. His efforts have helped convince the Louisiana’s Board of Elementary and Secondary Education to buy biology textbooks that accurately teach the theory of evolution, despite powerful forces on the opposing side.

The mask slips and the true face of Republicanism is revealed

Christian Intruders: New Law Will Force Women to Listen to Religious Lectures Before Getting an Abortion*

Buried Provision In House GOP Bill Would Cut Off Food Stamps To Entire Families If One Member Strikes

*repaired linkage

The ultimate death panel

All done in the name of religion.

Woman Forced To Watch Her Baby Die Because Nebraska Anti-Abortion Law Prohibited Doctor From Acting

The Founding Fathers did NOT make the Constitution

A Christian icon and a religious document.

Bill Maher:

I had somebody in the comments a while back trying to prove Jefferson was Christian and would have approved of 'intelligent design' because he gave Bibles to Washington D.C. schools. (On the other hand, there were those who decided Jefferson was a secret Muslim.)

And then there was Christine O'Donnell...

If only we could go somewhere safe while we watched the incoming holy wars in the US as the 'theocrats' fight it out to decide exactly WHICH Christian religion gets to rule the nation....