The little known 11th commandment, it just couldn't fit on the two stone tablets Moses had with him. And God has been pissed with us ever since.
But the Odessa school board has rectified that by adding a Bible study elective to their high school curriculum.
I'm sure you know what I'm going to say. "Bibles in schools is wrongheaded!!!" or some crap like that, right?
Wrong, suckers. I'm perfectly fine with it. It is an elective and it is about studying the Bible. No one has to go to the class, so I don't see it as a problem. It is not like say, trying to teach creationism in biology class.
Except that the group whose curriculum might be used is just the worst kind of scum. There are very narrow constitutional guidelines to follow to make this legal and they don't want to seem to do that.
Some of the claims made in the national council's curriculum are laughable, said Mark A. Chancey, professor of religious studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, who spent seven weeks studying the syllabus for the freedom network. Mr. Chancey said he found it "riddled with errors" of facts, dates, definitions and incorrect spellings. It cites supposed NASA findings to suggest that the earth stopped twice in its orbit, in support of the literal truth of the biblical text that the sun stood still in Joshua and II Kings.
"When the type of urban legend that normally circulates by e-mail ends up in a textbook, that's a problem," Mr. Chancey said.
Tracey Kiesling, the national council's national teacher trainer, said the course offered "scientific documentation" on the flood and cites as a scientific authority Carl Baugh, described by Mrs. Kiesling as "an internationally known creation scientist who founded the Creation Evidence Museum in Glen Rose, Tex.
Bottom line, these are the worst kind of people to be teaching your kids anything. I mean, do really want your kids to be that stupid? If you're going to teach a Bible class, get someone who knows something about history and the text itself, not a nutjob whose title is an oxymoron like "creation scientist."
Do the job right people. Why can't you just be happy teaching about the Bible? Why do you have to push and try to "indoctrinate" other people's kids to your religious beliefs? The idea of this is fine, the problem resides in the fact that the people carrying it out are dumbasses.
When, when will they learn that facts aren't decided by a majority vote? Facts are facts, reality is reality, no matter how many petition signatures you get in support of the class.
For more reactions, check out this CJR Daily piece or this from Bluebonnet.
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