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Texas Schoolboard "Rewriting" US History
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| enydo |
Because we need more threads about how ing bat insane some people in America are becoming.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/201...ites-us-history
Here's probably the best quote from the article:
| quote: | | "The only accurate method of ascertaining the intent of the founding fathers at the time of our government's inception comes from a biblical worldview," she wrote. "We as a nation were intended by God to be a light set on a hill to serve as a beacon of hope and Christian charity to a lost and dying world." |
Oh yes, that is just fantastic. |
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| leph555 |
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| EddieZilker |
| quote: | Originally posted by enydo
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Here's probably the best quote from the article:
| quote: | | "The only accurate method of ascertaining the intent of the founding fathers at the time of our government's inception comes from a biblical worldview," she wrote. "We as a nation were intended by God to be a light set on a hill to serve as a beacon of hope and Christian charity to a lost and dying world." |
Oh yes, that is just fantastic. |
Well, I think it depends on how those words are defined. Technically, there should be nothing wrong with Christian values. I mean to say that if one follows those first ten commandments, one is apt to lead a fairly healthy life, free from want or circumstantial calamity. I'm wondering if you're not misinterpreting the quoted text to suit your own belief that the over-arching intent is to beguile young students into a mindset that fails scientific pursuits in favor of a limited world view with a purposely skewed rendering of morality while cherry-picking scientific inquiry.
| quote: | | Study of Sir Isaac Newton is dropped in favour of examining scientific advances through military technology. |
~ also from article...
Oh... Well, never-mind, then. You've made some unfortunately valid observations to which, I would add, there is also a very clear perversion of "Christian" values only half cloaked within these initiatives. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by EddieZilker
| quote: | | Study of Sir Isaac Newton is dropped in favour of examining scientific advances through military technology. |
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The funny thing about it? Newton was a theology freak. |
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| couch-potato |
| Also a virgin who had no friends. |
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| couch-potato |
| I think I also remember reading he had an obsession with eating pies. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by EddieZilker
Well, I think it depends on how those words are defined. Technically, there should be nothing wrong with Christian values. I mean to say that if one follows those first ten commandments, one is apt to lead a fairly healthy life, free from want or circumstantial calamity. I'm wondering if you're not misinterpreting the quoted text to suit your own belief that the over-arching intent is to beguile young students into a mindset that fails scientific pursuits in favor of a limited world view with a purposely skewed rendering of morality while cherry-picking scientific inquiry.
~ also from article...
Oh... Well, never-mind, then. You've made some unfortunately valid observations to which, I would add, there is also a very clear perversion of "Christian" values only half cloaked within these initiatives. |
Uh, yeah. This is old news and a complete cluster. You’ve basically got this one particularly extreme dude on the board who is deciding what will go into textbooks almost single-handedly. |
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| EddieZilker |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
Uh, yeah. This is old news and a complete cluster. You’ve basically got this one particularly extreme dude on the board who is deciding what will go into textbooks almost single-handedly. |
I know. What's worse is that because they compose a large portion of the market share, they're endangering the currently mediocre content of the textbooks distributed throughout the rest of the nation. It's not just a complete cluster because that would only be effecting Texas.
It is a down-right cataclysmic cluster.
And I'm FROM TEXAS!!!
*grabs heart and slumps in chair* |
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| enydo |
| That's what's most scary about it. I'm pretty sure what textbooks the Texas school system uses greatly influence what textbooks are available in general. This is some straight up 1984 . |
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| Marcus Summers |
Texas is the forerunner for removing antiamericanism from our schools! I'm tired of liberal atheist heathens trying to tell me that GOD ain't a part of my damn country. Most americans are a freedom loving god fearing people and just because a few atheist scientist tell us that we came from monkeys its a damn fact?! I ain't came from no monkey!
LOVE IT OR LEAVE IT. |
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| Arbiter |
| quote: | Originally posted by enydo
Because we need more threads about how ing bat insane some people in America are becoming. |
... as if we have not had people this stupid all along? |
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