I myself find it utterly disgusting and ridiculous. If you don't know what I'm talking about then just turn on the news or youtube it because it's a hot topic right now.
I actually live in Texas but I've already graduated high school but I'm still worried that others will be spoon fed evangelical crud in their history textbooks. There's even talk about George Washington having a deathbed conversion and the removal of separation of church and state.
I'M OUTRAGED, are you?What is your opinion on Texas trying to change their textbooks to rewrite history in a Christian light?
Yeah, I'm pretty disgusted by it. I'd like to hear a justification on how Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are more important historical figures than THOMAS JEFFERSON. How exactly did the thinking of Thomas Jefferson seem so inconsequential to the Texas School Board they thought it would be okay to drop him from the curriculum altogether?
I mean sure, he only penned the Declaration of Independence, helped preside over the Continental Congresses and the Constitutional Convention, was the primary consultant to James Madison (you know, the guy no one ever seems to remember WROTE the Constitution... the pesky guy who coined the phrase "separation of church and state" to explain the intention of the First Amendment to the American people... that guy), and was the third President of the United States. Okay, I guess you can gloss over that for a radio commentator who currently thinks there are subliminal communist messages hidden in the artwork on Rockerfeller Center and tells his audience they should start turning in priests and pastors who promote social justice because they're secret Nazis (one has to wonder if Mr. Beck is familiar with how people like Stalin and Ceausescu maintained control by encouraging citizens to spy on one another).
Of course, there's not enough time for everything. That's why he's being cut out rather than, say... deciding it isn't that important to teach the cultural significance of COUNTRY MUSIC. Something had to give, and it wasn't going to be a bunch of Christian extremists who never had anything to do with this country and to whom virtually no one pays any attention these days.
The new Texas curriculum tells me two things loud and clear:
1) "Texas, it's like a whole other country", and thank God, because we don't want it in this one any more.
2) Allowing the stupid to appoint and elect the foolish to determine how to best shape the minds of the ignorant is about as bright as giving scalpels and suture needles to a group of retarded people and unleashing them in the O.R. Sure they'll end up cutting a lot of things and might even sew a few things up, but chances are they're going to do nothing but completely f**k you up in the process.
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What is your opinion on Texas trying to change their textbooks to rewrite history in a Christian light?
While I do like the idea of the founding fathers becoming less than the almighty and infallible characters they are now, I do still feel that their ideas and philosophies need to be discussed in a classroom setting. I suppose it'd be rather naive of me to hope that the truth be taught in schools, but I'd rather like to see history as it happened be taught, rather than the glorified version of history taught now.
Regardless, any attempt to put religion into government or schools enrages me. I'm fine with humanizing the founding fathers, but when their character flaws are used to attack the institution they set up, it infuriates me. While the words "separation of church and state" never appear in the constitution, it is the only possible conclusion to draw from the first amendment's religious clause.What is your opinion on Texas trying to change their textbooks to rewrite history in a Christian light?
It's about time that that the Amendments of our Constitution are showing their true colors. If there can be talk about evolution in our science classrooms then why not make it fair and give rise to the topic of creationism as well? However that is rarely ever the case amongst science and evolutionists.
One day our children will be learning the awareness of how we came about and when that day comes they will hopefully learn the importance of Christ in our lives. But okay, let's be just here, we are not teaching students what to "believe", we are teaching them what goes on in our world and growing society. Why fake ignorance when obviously that "evangelical crud" just happens to be a LARGE fragment of our history.
Good luck and God Bless!
Actually, from the reports I've heard, the committee is pushing for less inclusion of the founding father's faiths in textbooks. And "removal of separation of church and state"? What are they going to remove it from? You do know that's not in the Constitution, right? In fact, the original document was written in a way that was trying to protect the church from the states... not the other way around.
its not as bad as everyone is making it seem
i saw one thing that liberals outraged that we are not calling America a democracy, but a "constitutional republic"
We are a constitutional republic, if we were a full democracy, the sh*t would hit the fan
I dont even want to get into that atm. No offense but Texas is the worst state and I hope they secede. No one likes them. But yes thats pretty ridiculous. I honestly see another civil war happening in the future if other states get the same idea.
It's absolutely outrageous and I hope it isn't passed. If it is then what's to stop them from trying to get it passed in other states too?
Why is everything about Texas so backasswards? It seems like 4 out of every 5 times the United States messes up, it's to do with Texas.
No, they just want accurate and balanced history that does not take a bigoted anti-Christian position.
The USofA history IS one of " Christian heritage"..........................
about time someone stood up for it.
" theres even talk" ................is hogwash
It won't last. The courts have already ruled on this. The ACLU will hop right on it, and it will be gone.
YES I AM! These control freaks need to be stopped from forcing their warped thinking on everyone else.
I do think it's pretty disgusting, but I really doubt it'll get passed.
No I am not outraged at all. I say more power to them.
I think it's preposterous! (Hehe big word.) But it shouldn't last, like a few have said.
Yes, I'M OUTRAGED!!!!!!!!! And I'm glad to hear from someone else who feels this way!
no, its about time they did that. ever think why the Bible is practically isreals history book? their whole existence is recorded in the Bible. obviously, all the facts in it are real and provable.
