Oh wait, that assumes they are consistent with what they expect of others and what they expect from themselves. Nevermind. What was I thinking?

Looks like someone is trying very hard to find some sort of "counterpoint" for priests raping children. Probably best they stick to shitposting the group with whutabout China threads.

It's also true that 24 years ago, you didn't have as many alt-right Christians subverting our system of education.

24 years ago, too. But, they did not have an idiotic President, right-wing Congress and ultra-conservative SCOTUS to help them out back then. Today, they get support for their plans from the highest levels of government.

After creationism was shot down by the courts, they just edited out the word 'Jesus' and called it "Intelligent Design", which was also rejected by the courts. The ACLU didn't have to work so hard back then.

At least this time they are smart enough to call their parables about talking donkeys and 900 yr old people "religious history".

I want this taught in school. Everyone should be taught about the genocide of the Americas that was driven by Christianity. It should be taught to every child how the Bible was used to justify slavery. The Church's history of sexual predation deserves study, I'm just not sure at what age to introduce it in the classroom.

I'm willing to bet that not a single organization on that list would approve of that curriculum. They don't want "objectively". They want indoctrination.

Not objective facts. They want converts, not thinkers. The ACLU is fine with teaching the impact of religion on history and the arts. They're not fine with proselytizing, which is what the religionists want.

Metaphor Man, trying to put priestly robes on the ACLU.

Organized religion relies heavily on recruitment of the most vulnerable.

promoting the Southern Baptist Convention as a paradigm of Christian tolerance.

Given the previous shitposting trends from that one, I’m thinking a few months.

It’s as if one train wreck just isn’t enough so he has to pile on several more just to prove the first really wasn’t a biblical scale fuckup. I guess the fan club wants what it wants.

Sorry that I have ruined DU for you also.

Amazing how often you feel the need to attack theists.

But you are entitled to frame and promote your narrative.

the SBC was getting all nice about race?

The poster most certainly did and the poster knows that. Or the poster perhaps lost track of all the horseshit from rns the poster sprays into this forum? I guess that is possible.

With a bit of pretending to be a victim thrown in for good measure.

Well done.

claiming, for instance, that kids don't get exposure to religious history in state K-12 schools, when that is easily shown to be utterly false.

Because the kinds of people who write those lies are also the kind of people who flip their cookies when said religious history classes touch on topics like Islam.

Basically they just want to indoctrinate kids in Christianity. That's the bottom line. They want unfettered access to your kid's heads, under the guise of state education. Because it's ok to lie when you're lying for Jesus.

At the end of the day, if it's sourced to 'religionnews.com', you can assume deception.

That's what I'm aiming at. We see excerpts from religionnews.com frequently in this DU group. Typically, they're just a paragraph or two long, and ignore the rest of the article to make some minor point.

Unlike a lot of DUers, I frequently click through to read the entire article. Sometimes, the article directly contradicts what was excerpted for presentation here. It's frustrating. Like some others, I point out those discrepancies whenever I can.

Religionnews.com is an advocacy website, and an apologetics-based one, at that. It's articles are mainly opinion pieces pretending to be news stories. The deceptive nature of that site is pretty obvious, but is somewhat concealed to satisfy the audience for their articles.

Religionnews.com is all about promoting religion, not news. It's slanted so far that everything runs off it and down the drain.

It would be interesting if religious history or studies curricula in public schools were required to devote time to different religions proportional to their representation in the world population.

For instance according to Wikipedia the top five world religions (in terms of followers) are
• Christianity (2.4B),
• Islam (1.8B),
• Secular/Nonreligious/Agnostic/Atheist (1.2B)
• Hinduism (1.15B)
• Buddhism (.5B)

If they limited the curriculum to those five, out of 100 hours of instruction Christianity would only get about 30 hours of coverage.

I do not think this is an unreasonable way to divide a curriculum.

It isn't enforced, but it's a byproduct of historical impact.

Good to know that for all of the verbal outrage, you admit that what was written was correct.

As to the "slanted story", your own post here refutes your claim.

And that is why it is necessary to read the entire article.

Another trainwreck for you.

But consistent.

I just don't understand how someone like you who claims to embrace the message of Jesus can be so mean, spiteful, and hateful.

No wait, I understand perfectly.

Including many here.

As to your last claim, we shall let others be the judges.

In that regard, you ARE my enemy. And fuck yes, let everyone here judge.

The takeaway here is the reaction. The first step is denial of the facts presented, then there's gaslighting, and finally the claim those who present clear facts to counter pure nonsense are somehow engaging in an attack against "theists".

I suppose all of this would be odd enough, but then you have the motivation is a play to an imaginary audience.

You'd think he would grow tired of being exposed and laughed at over and over and over, but clearly he does not.

I read the entire article from your thread.

My assessment has expanded.

Old Dale Carnegie was the first best-selling "self-help" guru. Pretty much all of the books that came later were just someone repeating what he said.

Trouble is: most people don't bother to actually read the book and follow the advice. Or so I've observed.

ng how utterly dishonest the 'Religion News' OpEd piece was.

The evangelicals will on occasion proselytize minor children without the permission of their parents.

But if you can indoctrinate them in schools, so much easier.

Whenever I see a push to "teach the Bible as literature" in public schools, I know there's an evangelical Christian pushing for it. That should be everyone's first clue that there are ulterior motives behind it and that they will be preaching Jesus on the students.

It never fails. We must keep an eye on such things, and speak up when it happens, and it will always happen.

curriculum.

'by their fruits you shall know them' or something like that.

Organized religion is big business and they are always looking for new sheeps to shear. So there’s either a profit motive or some weak minded person being manipulated by those with a profit motive. The fact they go after children without the consent of the parents just goes to show the level of shit stains they are.

I think not. In reality, none of the posts in the Religion Group are necessary. All are voluntary expressions by the members. Also, it is never necessary for anyone to read them, nor to reply to them. All are voluntary actions.