Month: June 2024

“Isn’t That Special?”

“Isn’t That Special?”

Short but oh so important post on Christianity that many Christians will never know or care about.  Important quote below.   Hugs Scottie

I will start with the second question. It is clear from the Bible that Judaism, the parent religion of Christianity, started out polytheistic or at least henotheistic. Yahweh was part of a panoply of gods. In fact, Yahweh was a Canaanite god, along with El, Ba’al, Asherah, and over 70 gods in total. The Hebrews whittled down all of those until there was only one. Interestingly, Asherah, Yahweh’s mother, was described as Yahweh’s “consort” at one point. She often went, in the Bible, with the sobriquet of “the Queen of Heaven.”

America waged a full-on World War in order to save six million Jewish people, so then why doesn’t America wage war to save sixty million unborn people? I think it is blasphemously hypocritical.

America waged a full-on World War in order to save six million Jewish people, so then why doesn’t America wage war to save sixty million unborn people? I think it is blasphemously hypocritical.

Let’s talk about Biden, Trump and an ad….

WSJ Shocker: Joe Biden Is Old | GOP Unhappy With Asylum Order | RNC Mistakes Milwaukee For Vietnam

Stephen looks into a newspaper exposé on President Biden’s age, Republicans are faking outrage over the President’s executive order on immigration, and the website for the Republican National Convention displayed a photo of Ho Chi Minh City instead of the host city Milwaukee.

THE GUARDIAN: Appeals court tells Texas it cannot ban books for mentioning ‘butt and fart’

Appeals court tells Texas it cannot ban books for mentioning ‘butt and fart’
Conservative-dominated court restores books denounced by officials as ‘pornographic filth’ to school libraries

Read in The Guardian: https://apple.news/A5ARm_TenQSeeG4Tp7KLg9w

Shared from Apple News

Best Wishes and Hugs,Scottie

CNN: Israel alleges journalist held hostages in Gaza, without providing evidence

Israel alleges journalist held hostages in Gaza, without providing evidence
Three hostages rescued during a deadly Israeli military operation on the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza were held captive by a journalist, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) alleged Sunday, without providing evidence to support their claim.

Read in CNN: https://apple.news/Aoeyjj2B9QMOFPEf9JG-MIg

Shared from Apple News

Best Wishes and Hugs,Scottie

Anti Pride/LGTBQ+ Passive Aggressive Nonsense

Israel’s Rafah LIES Fall Apart

They want us to be left confused about what really happened in these atrocities, and forget and move on. We cannot do that.

Biden ADMITS Netanyahu DRAGGING OUT War

Billions In Public Money Now Go To Religious Schools

Billions In Public Money Now Go To Religious Schools

The attempt to turn the US in to a theocracy in red states run by republicans is being done by a minority of a minority.  The reason they have the legislative power they do is they have gerrymandered and used voter suppression to get only their supporters into power.  Churches which pay no taxes fund the campaigns of people who will give the churches more power and tax payer money.  Churches pay no taxes, the pay no property tax on housing for clergy and many other tax free give a ways.  Yet they are constantly demanding a share of the ever shrinking tax payer funds.  They don’t add to the treasury but they want some of it.   Why because they are greedy, but their numbers are shrinking, less butts in pews means less money in collection plates.  That was their real beef with the Covid restrictions, they were losing money.  So by forcing kids to see and learn religious stuff they hope to reverse the trend and get more people back to church.  Some of them want to force people to attend at least one religious service a week.  Democracy and the freedom from religion is being attacked hard, we need to defend them just as hard.  Plus private schools get to be choosy in who the accept, so they can’t be openly racist and bigoted, they also get to refuse admission to kids that are difficult to teach or have specials needs.   Hugs.  Scottie

June 9, 2024 Christianists, Education

 

The Washington Post reports:

Billions in taxpayer dollars are being used to pay tuition at religious schools throughout the country, as state voucher programs expand dramatically and the line separating public education and religion fades.

School vouchers can be used at almost any private school, but the vast majority of the money is being directed to religious schools, according to a Washington Post examination of the nation’s largest voucher programs.

In Florida, several programs combine to make every student in the state eligible for vouchers, with more than 400,000 participating this year. At least 82 percent of students attend religious schools, The Post found. Florida is first in the nation in both the number of enrolled students and total cost of the voucher program — more than $3 billion this year

Read the full article.

The linked piece notes that much of the voucher money is going to families that would pay or already are paying for private or religious schools themselves.

 

Reverend Chase Cox  vap10 hours ago

Another giveaway to the wealthy at the expense of the poor.

Cattleya1  Reverend Chase Cox9 hours ago

Because the vouchers pay the going price of the private schools, and come out of the county schools budgets.

Friday 10 hours ago

Rich Christians looting the public for their indoctrination camps and gutting of real education.

patty thomas  Friday9 hours ago

And then they’ll point to public schools failing in order to defund public education even more. It’s a self fulfilling prophesy. Of course most of these private schools don’t take special needs or difficult children or POC (except just enough of the smarter ones to avoid racism charges). The planning on this began when schools were desegregated….in many states, it’s now complete.

Cel 10 hours ago

This is a major win for the Christianists. Most likely the biggest so far. Since when should public taxes be used to teach Christianity. That’s what churches are for…this is complete bullshit!

kaydenpat  Cel10 hours ago

And now public dollars are subsidizing the teaching of Crrationism and other religious bunk in red states