Those in the lower income brackets in the USA have a tendency to have more children. They also don’t have the money for private and parochial schools hence they send them to the public schools. In the public schools, they teach humanism, atheism and a lot of other garbage with express purposes of driving Christianity out. Generation after generation goes by - the population of the lower income bracket out numbers the others hence the public school drivel is rammed down even more throats.
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"with express purposes of driving Christianity out."
Prove it. Prove that the public schools "teach humanism, atheism and a lot of other garbage with express purposes of driving Christianity out." I don't believe you have experience with more than a couple public schools, so speaking about all public schools is way beyond your ken. Even those schools within your experience assuredly do not have any policy to expressly drive out Christianity. That's bullshit and expect you know it's bullshit.
That lower-income people tend to have more children is true.
Nowhere near all private schools teach religion and much fewer teach your brand of religion.
If you'd shut your ignorance-spewing mouth, fewer things would be likely to encounter your throat.
"In the public schools, they teach humanism, atheism and a lot of other garbage with express purposes of driving Christianity out."
Looks like you've been fed a steady diet of horse shit your entire life to come up with a gem like that.
Homeskooled were you?
Jacob
Is it my imagination, or does it seem to everyone that fundies tend to have a million times more babies than atheists?
Naw, it's just that the babies the Fundies do have yell a lot louder. They get it from their parents.
The less educated are often far more devout.
The richest may or may not be as well educated, but they'll certainly encourage such devotion. Especially when many got that way thanks to religion in the first place.
All those rich, for-profit organisations (aka religious institutions) should have their 501 c3's removed and be retroactively taxed.
It's funny how the public school experience of myself and of everyone else I know never matches up with what extreme fundies claim public schools are like. My public school, and most of the schools in the area where I grew up, were dominated by conservative Christians. I have a hard time believing that it's not the same in many other places, considering how many Christians there are in this country.
Kristi: That's because of their no-true-sco.. er.. "Christian" Fallacy.
Its filled with conservative christians, yes. But as soon as any of them disagree on something, then they all become "not a true christian > atheist > commiepinkoliberal satanist" to eachother.
As far as their utterly deluded little (very little) mind is concerned, they're utterly surrounded.
"In the public schools, they teach humanism, atheism and a lot of other garbage with express purposes of driving Christianity out."
I presume you mean ToE, which every good fundie is against. But then you go on about the poor having too many kids. A Social Darwinist! BTW Darwin was against his theory being applies incorrectly to social cases and being used to support racism or to justify allowing the poor to suffer.
Sorry, the studies that show that the lower your income, the more likely you are to believe in the sky fairy dispute your societal revision, even if we accept it at face value.
And it also happens to be this income bracket that is the most religious. It would appear that financial poverty and belief in god go hand in hand. Could it be that they have bought into the idea that they will be rewarded in heaven and live in splendour for all eternity? Is their rabid belief in god motivated by greed? Oh, my! Heaven forbid!
Where do the fundies find these "cool sounding schools"? I have one in elementary and one in middle school and ours just teach boring stuff like reading, science, amd arithmetic. None of our schools here teach humanism or cool stuff like that.
I went to public schools in the US. A different one every year for the first 10 years, in fact.
They all seemed to be primarily conservative Christian, to the point of having a Christian Council student group (and banning any other religious groups).
My high school - in the Bible Belt - had school prayers during pep rallies, sporting events, and any time anyone from campus was in the hospital (mandatory in these cases). It also regularly held events at the football field, during which the local Southern Baptist church's youth minister would preach and ask all the students to "come forth and be born again into the glory of God." I was forced to participate by my teachers. Anyone who refused was signed up for detention, and treated as a pariah by the staff & students.
Tell me how that fits with your "evil secular atheist public school" imagery.
In the public schools, they teach humanism, atheism and a lot of other garbage with express purposes of driving Christianity out.
Is that why I learned about the Bible being an important piece of literature in my English class?
Is that why we had a large Christian Youth Group pray in the halls every single day?
OK then!
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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