For years the Christian Alt-Right has been convinced that the Muslim Obama and his ‘Liberal’ government has had a war on religion. There was outrage over a governmental restriction of saying “Merry Christmas.” There was outrage over students being told that they could no longer say the Pledge of Allegiance because the Founding Father’s wrote “Under God.” There was outrage over a ban on teaching the Biblical facts of the Earth only being 6,000 years old and that Jesus rode dinosaurs. There was outrage over science, over facts, over history, over literature, even over cafeteria and recess. There has been a great deal of outrage on the side of the Christian Alt-Right.
But they are Alt-Wrong about just about every bit of it. No one in the government or no one of whom I have ever heard has prohibited “Merry Christmas,” The Pledge of Allegiance, different theories of creation or kept your fat kids from killing themselves by sitting during recess and eating McDonald’s Big Macs that you bring them to supplement all that bad fruit and low-fat food that the schools force down the rest of the healthy kids’ throats. Just dead Alt-Wrong.
But that War on Religion that never really took place is about to be replaced by an all-out offensive against science, history, literature, reason, and the very doors of the free neighborhood school-house.
A member of President-Elect Donald J. Trump’s proposed cabinet said it more eloquently, “Religion is needed to interpret science because maybe it’s just propaganda,” former Presidential candidate Doctor Benjamin Solomon “Ben” Carson, Sr., American retired surgeon (I’m guessing tree-surgeon.) Born in Detroit, Michigan, and a graduate of Yale University and the University of Michigan Medical School.
He graduated from YALE UNIVERSITY and he believes that science might just be propaganda??? I’ve been to Yale University. Several of my close friends graduated from Yale University. Yale University is a friend of mine. You, sir, are no Yale Graduate.
Fortunately, the main frontal attack will not be led by Dr. Ben. He will be off ‘fixing’ federal housing and urban development. That is the same Dr. Ben who told The Washington Post, “Having me as a federal bureaucrat would be like a fish out of water, quite frankly.” And the same Dr. Ben who firmly believes that people who live in poverty had a choice between wealth and poverty and they picked poverty. Yale University!!!!!???!
No, the General Patton of the Fourth Army to lead this frontal assault on most things that educator’s have held dear for centuries is Elisabeth “Betsy” DeVos, an American billionaire, businesswoman, philanthropist, and education activist from Michigan. DeVos is known for her advocacy of school choice, voucher programs, and ties to the Reformed Christian community. The closest that DeVos has come to public education was attending Holland Christian High School where their educational mission is to, “Equip minds and nurture hearts to transform the world for Jesus Christ.”
DeVos is convinced that God has placed her great wealth at her feet for the purpose of bringing down the lies of public education and replacing them with God’s truth. Here are a few of those lies:
- Big Bang (Christian school will teach God created it in seven days)
- The universe is 14 billion years old. (It is only six thousand years old)
- Dinosaurs lived 65 million years ago. (Jesus rode dinosaurs)
- The flood of Noah was not world-wide. (Was so)
- Life formed on earth over millions of years. The process is called evolution. (Creationism)
- Women didn’t come from an old extra rib of some guy named Adam. (women are man ribs)
- Math: A tool that is useful because it seems to work in manipulating the natural world (A reflection of the mind of an orderly God)
- English: Literature must be representative of all cultures, which are seen as having equal value, and has no inherent meaning (Literature is appreciated as a demonstration of common grace and interpreted in the light of God’s Word)
- Teachers: Varied backgrounds – Christianity or some other religion, humanism, atheism; may be straight or gay (Born-again, committed believers seeking to model Christ before their students – no gays, atheists or fatties need apply)
- Peers: Varied religious backgrounds, often receiving little moral instruction or values at home or church (Students from Christian homes who are there because their parents support Christian values – oh, and they have whiter whites and brighter brights)
- Science: Naturalism – everything comes from matter, time, and natural selection (God is the Creator and Sustainer of all things; science involves knowing God through knowing His world)
- History: Controlled either by autonomous man or by an impersonal process (Controlled by an omnipotent God who knows the end from the beginning – so, just sit back and watch God control everything)
The Christian Educators Association International, an organization that sees the nation’s public schools as “the largest single mission field in America,” aims to show Christian teachers how to live their faith — and evangelize in public schools. They don’t seem to care about teaching but about saving souls. I thought we had churches for that and public schools for education, but then I’m just an old-fat retired educator; a true dinosaur from a by-gone era.
So, this dinosaur is BEGGING you to WRITE A LETTER to your Democratic or your Republican Senator and demand that
Betsy DeVos NOT BE CONFIRMED by the Senate.
Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 of the United States Constitution, known as the Appointments Clause, empowers the President of the United States to appoint certain public officials with the “advice and consent” of the U.S. Senate. All Cabinet members are nominated by the President and then presented to the Senate for confirmation or rejection by a simple majority (although, before use of the nuclear option during the 113th US Congress, they could have been blocked by filibuster, requiring cloture to be invoked by 3/5 supermajority to further consideration) *cloture is a procedure for ending the debate and taking a vote.
So, you it is your time to pick one: FACTS or STATE SPONSORED RELIGION IN SCHOOLS.
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