“2/12/2010, 4:46pm EST”
Texas cretins still rewriting textbooks for everyone
It’s not a new story that a few village idiots in Texas have been trying — with significant success — to etch right-wing propaganda into history and science textbooks nationwide, but the New York Times has a new in-depth look at the effort and its leaders.
Big surprise: they don’t know their history!
Don McLeroy, arch-conservative Christian fundamentalist, is the most outspoken member of the Texas Board of Education. But he’s not an educator or academic expert.
“I’m a dentist, not a historian,” he said. “But I’m fascinated by history, so I’ve read a lot.”
“There are two basic facts about man,” he said. “He was created in the image of God, and he is fallen. You can’t appreciate the founding of our country without realizing that the founders understood that. For our kids to not know our history, that could kill a society. That’s why to me this is a huge thing.”
While Don’s personal insanity is revealed early on, you have to read the whole thing to understand just how conspiratorial, irrational, misguided, and — of course — 100% certain this bloc of retards really is.
The article’s most basic focus is evaluating who in the “separation between church and state” debate channels America’s founding fathers’ ideas more accurately, and it’s clear from the data presented that secularists do far better than right-wingers.
But whatever the founders’ collective and individual visions for America, it should be obvious to anyone with an elementary understanding of world history and current events that religion in government is dangerous, and that this current crop of Christian fascists should have as little to do with government as possible. As dumb as they are, they’re organized, and their end goal is to create a fundamentalist Christian state.
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