Right Wingers Call Social Studies an Attack on Religion
Anything here sound familiar?
A prominent religious leader is now attacking the study of social sciences,
saying it “promotes doubts and uncertainty” and “secularism.”
A new development in the growing debate over social studies curriculum
standards in Texas public schools? Well, not exactly. The religious leader noted
above is Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the “supreme leader” of Iran’s theocratic
government. According to a story in the New York Times, Khamenei and
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are suggesting “that the study of secular
topics and ideas has made universities incubators for the political unrest
unleashed after the disputed presidential election in June.”
“Many of the humanities and liberal arts are based on philosophies whose
foundations are materialism and disbelief in godly and Islamic teachings,”
Ayatollah Khamenei said at a gathering of university students and professors on
Sunday, according to IRNA, the state news agency. Teaching those “sciences leads
to the loss of belief in godly and Islamic knowledge.”
All of this comes as far-right ideologues helping guide the revision of
social studies curriculum standards for Texas public schools are insisting that
students learn the United States is a Christian nation and that the Founders
intended our society and laws to be based on the Bible.
Peter Marshall, a right-wing evangelical minister
appointed to a panel of social studies “experts,” has been particularly vocal about where he wants to take the
social studies standards, telling the Wall Street Journal:
“We’re in an all-out moral and spiritual civil war for the soul of America,
and the record of American history is right at the heart of
it.”
Marshall has argued that the current social studies standards in Texas fail to explain the country’s biblical origins:
“(T)he discovery, settling, and founding of the colonies happened because of
the Biblical worldviews of those involved. Only when this is taken into account
can America’s founding be properly understood.”
David Barton, also a so-called “expert” on the same social studies panel with
Marshall, calls the separation of church and state a “myth.” Barton — founder
and head of the Christian-right group WallBuilders — argues that the current standards fail to note the Godly foundations of
American government. He claims there is a “war on God in America” and even says labor laws and progressive taxation violate biblical
mandates.
We are reminded of something Sandra Day
O’Connor said after she left the U.S. Supreme Court. She was asked about the
relationship between religion and government and replied that separation of church and state had been very good for the United
States:
“I do think we’re lucky in this country. We have generally kept religion a
matter of individual conscience and not a matter for the prosecutor or
bureaucrat. . . . Why should we trade our system that has served us so well for
one that has served others so poorly?”
We agree.
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Christian soldiers must end these lies!! Shariah of Christ Church must be victorious.
Attack and do not retreat from ending the lies of :
The earth is round. Scientists say the earth is ovalish. That's not perfectly round, and if it ain't perfect, god didn't make it.
The earth is older than 6k years old. Everyone knows that Satan put science here to confuse the believer. If science says it, it's a lie. There is only one true science book, and it's called the bible .
Dinosaurs existed and died off before mankind. You and I both know that Moses put two of each kind of dinosaur on the ark. He even built special pens for the raptors, t-rex's and the other carnivores.
Women are equal to men. There is nothing in the bible about women being equal, and we know it isn't true. While we are at it, anyone that isn't white needs to be included. Everyone knows that Jesus was white, we have seen the paintings. And he's always white in the paintings. It doesn't matter that he came from a brown skinned part of the world, he's white damnit and only a liberal satanist would think otherwise.
Night and day have something to do with Earth rotations. Since the Earth isn't round, there is no such thing. There is a night and day switch that only god controls. Read your bible and see for yourself. All the "science" you could ever need is in there.
I would give many more examples, but I have a jihad to wage and no more time to spend with you heathens.
Religious fundamentalism is religious fundamentalism. Doesn't seem to make too much difference what the religion is. If it is approached from a fundamentalist viewpoint, the dangers and effects are remarkably similar. Must be a human-nature thing.
Sun Tzu's postulate of War against Religion:
A study of nearly any academic topic will devastate the certitude of any dogma to a degree proportional to the depth of the study.
I typically do not like allegorical or metaphorical warring, as they tend to fail horribly (War on Poverty, Drugs, Terror: 0-3). But if that's the way they want to put it, sure thing.
Forward march...
I would not have batted an eye if this had come from any of the 'usual suspects' on the American far right...
These people are nothing but christian facists who would impose their own form of sharia on the citizens of this country if they could. We must stand fast against them wherever we find them.
Who are these nobody experts?
For a moment I thought they meant Peter Marshall, an expert on Imperial History. Then I realized, they meant some nobody loser.
David Barton is the biggest pseudo-historian imaginable. Every reputable historian thinks he's a crank.
Evolution? Just a "theory." Just like the germ theory of disease; the theory of gravity; Molecular Orbital Theory; geology; and other secular false sciences that defy the will of the lord.
Separation of Church and State? Thomas Jefferson's letter was a forgery
No mention of God in the Constitution? Obviously not intentional despite the fact it clearly was; it must have been removed somehow by secular progressives.
Secular Republic? Bah, our founders wanted a constitutional theocracy.
Also, why don't social studies textbooks have in bright bold 24 font "American is the Greatest Nation" on every page with the American flag in the background? These liberals!
I'm glad these conservative whack- jobs take pleasure in ruining our nations education system. Localized control of school districts has ruined this countries education system, and these nut jobs are only too happy to help it get even worse!