Texas' State Board of Education has approved new history textbooks that say the U.S. Constitution was based on the Bible. A group of university professors complains that the textbooks are filled with "inventions and exaggerations" about Christianity's influence on the Founding Fathers, but board chairwoman Barbara Cargill said students will now learn about the country's "rich religious heritage."
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Oh, the founding father's were influenced by their Christianity, eh?
Which Christianity? Quakers who suffered oppression under the Puritans? Mormans chased from piller to post until they arrived in Utah, where they began to oppress other religions themselves? The African-American churches treated with explicit racism? Jehovah's Witnesses arrested for preaching their faith? No, they mean the majority Christianity, the religion that has privilege over those other, and therefore lesser, faiths.
What a bunch of shit sucking religion pimps.
Meanwhile, the wealthy Texans send their kids to real schools where, among other things, they are taught to look down on their inferiors. The supply of inferiors must be maintained.
I heard about Barbara Cargill. She makes up so much shit, and the textbook companies just eat it up. The worrying bit is that Texas is the standard-bearer for textbooks the nation across.
So much for public education being just "librul indoctrination!"
I'm sure the textbook is also able to explains why only two of the Ten Commandment are punishable by law if violated. Seems like a pretty major oversight on the part of the Founding Fathers. Why, after a mistake like that, you'd think they weren't even True Christians.
(I'm not counting the commandment against lying, because if I recall correctly that only applies in situations like being under oath, and as far as I know the Bible makes no such distinction.)
@ SpukiKitty
These books even say that Moses was a Founding Father.
You're dead serious, aren't you? Damn it Texas! I try to be even-handed. I try not to paint people with a shit covered brush by mere association. But you have to keep being fucking TEXAS!
students will now learn about the country's "rich religious heritage."
I'm gonna hazard a guess and say there will be no reference to the roles Jews played in this country's history, nor Muslims (like how Morocco was the first nation to recognise the United States), nor things like Thomas Jefferson's deism and religious tolerance.
Just be honest and say you meant "Christian heritage" and stop trying to dodge the separation of church and state.
Dear America:
I'm sorry. Please remember that not everyone here is a complete moron.
A Texan
As someone educated in the state, can you please stop devaluing my education? I may at some point in the future need to apply for a job, and I would prefer that my potential employer not examine my education record and immediately assume that I am as head-up-ass stupid as you.
A Texan
We're already the laughing stock of the world. I saw a recent Doctor Who episode where the Doctor said he doesn't want Americans on board because they'll just pray at everything. It's like having a drunk uncle who takes his pants off in public. Except, that drunk, pantsless uncle knows people in high places and gets to decide what everyone's kids get to learn for the next decade. Actually, scratch that. At least the half-naked uncle, as embarrassing as he is, isn't deliberately lying to our kids.
You see, you can make dumb dumber.
I used to worry about stuff like this but then I realised it's just Americans being American. I'm sure all this nonsense will be educated out of any of them that actually make it into higher education. The rest will just be flipping burgers. Which as we all know is the highest calling of children born to fundie parents.
If it were just Texas, I'd laugh myself silly at them. However, textbook publishers cater to the Texas school board since they have the largest number of schools, and then they send those same textbooks nationwide.
As another Texan exasperated with this fucking outrage of an educational system that we have here, I'd like to request that you people not paint all of us Texans (and, by extension, Americans) with the same brush, calling for our eviction from the Union, or even our deaths. That's no less cruelly ignorant than demanding that we "glass the Middle Eastern camel jockeys" or something equally idiotic.
@ #1736940
"When the Russians & Germans rewrote history it was propaganda. When Texans rewrite history it's "religious heritage"."
But of course. Please note the following from the 'NewSpeak for Dummies' handbook:
"If THEY do it, it's propaganda. If WE do it, it's Public Relations".
"If THEY do it, it's spying. If WE do it, it's Intelligence Gathering".
If THEY do it, it's an ambush. If WE do it, it's a Prepared Assault By Fire".
Feel free to add more.
Regards & all,
Thomas L. Nielsen
Hands down, this is called propaganda. Dear god .USA here.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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