And more on the attempt to force Christianity on everyone else kids in public schools regardless of the parent’s religion, here is the attempt to teach that the US is and should be a Christian nation whose laws, morals, and rules should be based only on the Christian bible I present this. Yes in Florida where the legislature passed letting Christian religious leaders be untrained school counselors but DeathSantis the governor claimed that no other religion especially the Satanic Temple. Of course the law can’t be used that way but the die hard rabid fundamentalist Christian are desperate to push their religion and only theirs on the public. Side issue, it is hilarious how the fundamentalist Christians freak out over the name not realizing the religion is a science based social civil rights based faith, not one that worships their devil. Although with the way they are anti-science and ant-civil rights for anyone not white, straight, and cis maybe they should freak out. Hugs. Scottie
Popular Information reports:
Training materials produced by the Florida Department of Education direct middle and high school teachers to indoctrinate students in the tenets of Christian nationalism, a right-wing effort to merge Christian and American identities. Thousands of Florida teachers, lured by cash stipends, have attended trainings featuring these materials.
According to speaker notes accompanying one slide, teachers were told that “Christianity challenged the notion that religion should be subservient to the goals of the state,” and the same hierarchy is reflected in America’s founding documents. That slide quotes the Bible to assert that “[c]ivil government must be respected, but the state is not God.” Teachers were told the same principle is embedded in the Declaration of Independence.
The next slide in the deck quotes an article by Peter Lillback, the president of Westminster Theological Seminary and the founder of The Providence Forum, an organization that promotes and defends Christian nationalism. The group’s executive director, Jerry Newcombe, writes a weekly column for World Net Daily — a far-right site known for publishing hundreds of stories falsely suggesting Obama was a Muslim born in Africa.
Read the full article. There’s much more.
The Christian nationalist materials were obtained through a Freedom Of Information Act demand.
As the piece notes, Peter Lillback is a signatory to the infamous Manhattan Declaration, which calls on Christians to commit “civil disobedience” against LGBTQ rights.
Photo: Florida education chief Manny Diaz, who previously appeared here over the successful bill to teach K-12 students about the evils of communism and the bans on sociology courses and diversity programs.
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even when i still claimed to be a christian i would have seen this philosophy as wack.
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Hi Susan. What until tomorrow when I post about a new public school curriculum in Texas. It requires reading and having the young kids read Christian bible stories. Can you imagine being a non-Christian having to let the school force you kid to read Jonah being swallowed by a whale and Noah ark along with all the other good Jesus stories? But being the Christian fascist they are they don’t allow for opting out nor for other religions to be represented. Damn these people want a theocracy so badly. But I think in truth they have been told god will only love them if they get more people into the church so the church makes more money. Hugs. Scottie
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You know, Scottie, even in my most Christian years i knew Christian nationalism was wack. In college I had a class with an historian named Mark Noll who taught about whether or not the us is a christian nation. spoiler alert: NEVER HAS BEEN
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True Susan, so very true. I just wish the right wing Christian fanatics realized it. But they have been homeschooled, church schooled, a told in church it was so much that they believe it to be a fact that the atheist left wants to take away from them.
Decades ago we had a teenager who used to come to our home after school and on weekends due to a bad home situation, something I understood well. Every weekday afternoon after he got home from church school Ron and I would spend a few hours going over the wrong history he learned that day showing him how they were lying to him about the entire Christian nation thing along with other things in history they changed. Sadly while he believed us, he still had to regurgitate what they told him to pass the tests. He did not dare speak up to them and tell them the real truth because it would get him in trouble and be reported to his fundamentalist Christian abusive parents. As they say give them the child and they will show you the adult. Hugs. Scottie
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