But on Fridays, you eat fish, not dinosaur. (Maybe ichthyosaurs. I’m no theologian.)
Might someone please explain to me unknowing european, what exactly a “charter school” is? Just to make sure that I’ll burn the right place to the ground if somebody ever will try to open one in my neighbourhood.
It’s a school based more on one of a variety of private school models (which means it has educational flexibility of a private school in how it educates its students), but still receives public funding. There are for profit versions of this generally run by corporations as well as non-profit versions founded by local parents.
An aside: A few days ago, I was reading something about how slavery faded away in Europe. A part of it was a push from the Catholic church. Their policy was that Christians should not enslave Christians, so a lot of the lingering slavery was of people of other religions. Of course, by this policy, slaves should have been freed as soon as they converted…
On the eighth day, God have man chinos and said “it was good.”
I agree, but the issue comes up with what happens when you don’t agree with the society at large? Do you have a right to raise your own kids free from interference by the state?
Say you live in a largely “X-Religion” area, but aren’t of the same religion. Is it ok for the school to teach the “truth” to your kid? (their “truth”) Playing the devil’s advocate a bit, but that’s actually how a lot of uber christian people see the public school system. There are a lot of people who really think that modern science/medicine/health information is evil and blasphemous. Do these whackjobs not have the right to raise their kids entirely within their religion? I hate to say it, but I’d agree that they do (as long as nothing is abusive).
The issue I have is when you expect me to fund/support religious assbackwardsness…
“These whackjobs” probably drive cars and use computers and mobile phones, all of which would be impossible without modern science. If they’re really sick they might even go to a hospital (but of course if they get better it will all be because their family, friends, and congregation prayed so hard for them; if they die it’s because of God’s secret plan that people can’t understand). It all adds to the hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance.
Bringing up your kids in a religion, especially a weird and kooky religion that, e.g., replaces science with religious indoctrination, is a form of child abuse. There’s nothing wrong with adopting a religion once you can decide for yourself that you want to (and which one), but doing it to kids is just sick.
Preferably schools shouldn’t indoctrinate children in a particular religion, but as long as parents are free to teach their kids at home that some parts of their education in school is bogus, giving the children two points of view to choose from, that is preferable to the situation where parents get to choose completely what their children get to know.
If you live in that X-religion area but try to educate your child strictly as an atheist with no knowledge about X-religion, how well do you think he will do once he leaves home? You may think that adherents of that religion are fools, but those are still the people he will have to live among.
Evangelical: My tax dollars should not support birth control!
Everyone else: Okay, no more tax money for your weird cult charter school.
Evangelical: Censorship! War on Christianity!
And by this you know they mean the abolitionists.
It’s just like all that shit that 95% of Republicans believe that Obama started a “race war.”
The point of that being taught, though, is that it’s to specifically tie in to dinosaurs walking around with Jesus. (The fringe believe that Nessie is evidence of dinosaurs still existing, and having been on the Ark.)
Nah, this was the Civil Rights era rather than slavery.
So they meant communists.
OTOH, a lot of Civil Rights activists were communists. The link between the two is a major factor in why the USA has traditionally been so fanatically hostile to socialism.
But socialism was not why the Black community was “stirred up”.
This is about creating a stable voting base of the willfully ignorant and superstitious which can be easily manipulated.
I agree wholeheartedly, but unfortunately that’s not exactly the law of the land. I’d love to see a USA where nobody teaches kids religion until late high school or so, then the kids can decide on their religion (or decide no religion), but that’s never going to happen with most people. For one, for most people it seems like their ancestry/heritage/and even racial identity is tied in with their religious beliefs. Not allowing parents to religiously indoctrinate their kids would be thought of like not allowing parents to teach their kids who they really are. Also, tied in heavily with moral/ethical values (as F-ed up as that often ends up being).
There’s really not much you can say except “Sieg Girl” because saying that will soon be mandatory.
Speaking of dinosaurs…
More in thread.
I’ve never seen that poster before, and it’s amazing.
And I literally came here to post those dinosaurs 
