Observations and inanities by a second-shift assistant supervisor in the Puppy-Grinding division of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy® (our motto: "Sure it's cruel, but think of the jobs!"), your host, Brent Rasmussen.
Um, no.
You may have already seen this. Since I pretty much ignore Time magazine, and don't get out much, I hadn't been aware of it until a dKos diary this morning. But the cover of the current issue is:
Why We Should Teach The Bible In Public School
The text reads as a more nuanced argument, but still the implication is clearly that this Sky Daddy crap should be taught in public schools. Granted, the article argues that it should be done under the auspices of 'literature' and 'cultural history', but anyone who has seen the fundies at work will soon realize that this is just a foot in the door for every teacher out there to push their particular mysticism.
Gah - that we have one of the major 'news' publications pushing this crap is disheartening, in the extreme.
Jim Downey
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I disagree
Yeah, I'm going to have to disagree here. This was actually done in my high school AP Lit class (about 5 years ago) and it was actually very interesting. I was still a believer at the time, but even then we covered it as history and cultural knowledge, with nary a mention of the metaphysical aspects of it. Although we had one of the best HS lit teachers ever, so my experience may have been abnormal. And, we discussed both a happy fun-ish story along with one of the WTF stories of the old testament. It was definitely one of the things I came back to when I questioned it all later. NMMNG has it closer to right, I think.
What I'd like to see... (RoonDog's version)
Is less pap & crap pushed on the American public and more, less easily digestible reality. I know, I'm probably the ten millionth to state this, but the fact that Ana Nicole Smith's death and funeral preclude news about the fact that the faith-based morons populate our presidential appointment roster and have set out to destroy the competence exhibited by responsibility in government all for the sake of bolstering resumes of people completely unqualified for any position of responsibility is bloody atrocious. To wit: this and this.
"You better start giving me some inner peace before I mop the floor with you." - Homer S.
or
"Pinky, you excel at random." - the Brain
Kindness
Thanks to Kos for leaving the bread crumbs. This is one of those fun spots we couldn't have found without a trail.
There is so little evidence of love (love is patient, love is kind, and so on) by these reincarnated witch burners that it is comical for them to argue on behalf of a faith based upon that principal.
Short form of the new testament is reducible to: Love God, Love neighbor as self.
Having had the traditional indoctrination into the fairy tale and landing on the business end of the brutality of reality, for kindness sake, LEAVE THOSE KIDS ALONE!
Kindness is something we can all manage. Temporarily.
When these KKKristian FREAKS start ripping into the body of reproductive freedom, equality and civility--time for some taxpaying. I'm sick and tired of these scammers building empires TAX FREE!!
I like your site. Thank Kos--it's a miracle!
What I'd like to see...
Is a class that doesn't cherry-pick the buybull, but exposes all the violence, hatred, racism and ugliness in it. All the genocide, incest, rape, cannibalism, you name it - let people see that the "good book" is a litany of every imaginable evil and foulness. Then maybe some kids will finally realize it's nothing but a primitive screed written centuries ago by bloodthirsty savages, and anyone who thinks it's a science or morality textbook, or thinks it has any relevance at all to modern society, is a dangerous idiot.
- No More Mr. Nice Guy!