The first time we get a conservative in office that panders to the religious right we get a push to teach creationism in the public schools as a science.
Even before the second tour of duty even kicks off we already have Christian schools teaching children from Kindergarten to the Twelfth grade that the Confederacy was the “last true Christian civilization” and that slaves lived “a life of plenty and of simple pleasures” all because its more important for them to find a biblical justification for chattel slavery than to teach the truth.
That’s religion for you. Copernicus is burning in hell right now for proving that the earth revolved around the sun and not the other way around.
The truth isn’t as important to Jesus freaks than is finding things to support what they already believe.
People, whether you want to accept it or not, the Bible justifies many things that today, appall us morally, spiritually and legally.
Sure, the New Testament says, “Love your neighbor and turn the other cheek” but there is a lot more to the Bible than those catch phrases.
In the Bible you can find people making animal sacrifices, indiscriminately murdering non-believers, condoning incest, polygamy, and even the endorsement of a ridged patriarchal society to such an extent that women are looked at as no more than possessions.
Try to build an alter in your backyard, kill a goat and sacrifice it to God tonight and see how many city ordinances that you get charged with violating.
There is no support for democratic government we enjoy here in America in the bible. There are only monarchies. And in case you hadn't thought about it, Jesus is a king not an elected official.
What I want to know is, why are there so many people in the world today looking for any claim they can get their hands on to a pure religious society?
So many people in the Middle-East want to live in a “pure” Islamic society and too many religious factions here in the United States want to claim a pure Christian something.
I know conservatives always want to go backward but how conservative do you have to be to want to go back to a social structure like the moral barbarians that was the norm of the Ancient world?
The leaders at Cary Christian School in North Carolina, say that they are not condoning slavery by using a book called "Southern Slavery, As It Was," to teach their students about slavery although the book makes such claims as,
"Slavery as it existed in the South was not an adversarial relationship with pervasive racial animosity. Because of its dominantly patriarchal character, it was a relationship based upon mutual affection and confidence." (page 24)
"There has never been a multi-racial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony in the history of the world." (page 24)
* "Slave life was to them a life of plenty, of simple pleasures, of food, clothes, and good medical care." (page 25)
* "But many Southern blacks supported the South because of long established bonds of affection and trust that had been forged over generations with their white masters and friends." (page 27)
* "Nearly every slave in the South enjoyed a higher standard of living than the poor whites of the South -- and had a much easier existence." (page 30)
The authors of the book, one of which is speaking at the class graduation in May, is a member of the board of directors of a group called the League of the South, an Alabama-based group that is classified as a “hate-group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center, are known paladins for the Confederacy and the particular brand of human slavery it advocated.
"Doug Wilson and Steve Wilkins have essentially constructed the ruling theology of the neo-Confederate movement," said Mark Potok, editor of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report.
Those who are still arguing that the South should secede from the Union, do so based on arguments made by Doug Wilson and Steve Wilkins’s from writings that have basically mapped out the theology behind the neo-Confederate movement and painted the south as the last true Christian civilization.
That is the move that fascists love to make, having learned over time that you can get more people to commit guiltless suffering upon other human beings if they think they are doing some greater good rather than just telling it like it is and appealing to the base, self-centered agenda that motivates it in the first place.
Under the disguise of trying to teach their students to “think for themselves” and not to be slanted one way or the other, this school consistently does things like have the children read books like “Southern Slavery” which was a book written in response to “uncle Tom’s Cabin” which they feel portrayed slavery in an unfair light.
The booklet "Southern Slavery, As It Was," coincidently been pulled from publication because of “faulty footnotes” and “citation errors”.
What footnotes?