They keep trying to fund religious schools, and don’t understand that if they do that, they have to fund all religious schools including those of religions they don’t like.
You can lead a fundie to logic, but you can’t make him think.
]]>I just came across this piece regarding Florida! I was PMSL! Talk about huge backfire! LOL It’s actually a good piece.
Bible-pushing Christians open the door for Satanic activity books in Florida schools
The Satanic Temple has responded to an Orange County, Florida decision to disseminate religious materials in public school by creating complementary materials that espouse the philosophy and practice of Satanism.
Last month, a Florida judge ruled that if the Orange County school district allowed Christian groups to disseminate Bibles and Christian-oriented religious materials in its schools, it would also have to allow atheist groups to do the same.
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The spokesman for the Satanic Temple, Lucien Greaves, explained that his organization “would never seek to establish a precedent of disseminating our religious materials in public schools because we believe our constitutional values are better served by respecting a strong separation of Church and State.”“However,” he continued, “if a public school board is going to allow religious pamphlets and full Bibles to be distributed to students — as is the case in Orange County, Florida — we think the responsible thing to do is to ensure that these students are given access to a variety of differing religious opinions, as opposed to standing idly by while one religious voice dominates the discourse and delivers propaganda to youth.”
The Satanic Temple made headlines earlier this year when it successfully petitioned the state of Oklahoma to allow it to erect a goat-headed Baphomet statue adjacent to a display of the Ten Commandments.
Greaves made it clear that, in both cases, his organization is only responding to provocations by the Christian community.
““Even as we prefer public policies respecting secularism, we feel that opportunities — such as this — to establish an equal voice for contrasting religious opinions in the public square, tend to favor marginalized, lesser-known, and alternative religions,” he said.
“I am quite certain that all of the children in these Florida schools are already aware of the Christian religion and it’s Bible, and this might be the first exposure these children have to the actual practice of Satanism. We think many students will be very curious to see what we offer.”
PMSL
The hilarious thing is, the Satanists sound more reasonable and rational than their Christian *cousins*! LOL
Made my day! 😀
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]]>Wasn’t it Einstein who defined insanity as doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results? The Republicans are still waiting for at least one of their policies to work.
We couldn’t use electric typewriters because they were concerned that people could pick up signals generated by the keystrokes. These days they can’t even get contractors to use firewalls or decent virus software. It’s pathetic. We are concentrating on the offense and ignoring the defense. It’s the Rumsfeld syndrome.
]]>Well, the US dogma is that you MUST keep trying the same old thing no matter how often it fails because one day IT WILL WORK! ’cause… you know… magic!
Good plan (re: zombies)! I hadn’t thought of that! Would work in Canberra & London too! LOL
I was reading this WaPo article, curious…
Tech firm tries to pull back curtain on surveillance efforts in Washington
It doesn’t surprise me, or anyone whose ever worked in Intel. Heck, I know this was going on in the 80’s. The difference being, you needed a van for the equipment. 🙂 The electronics “spy vs. spy” game has been around a long time! But the tools are more sophisticated and smaller now.
I doubt that the USA clowns actually have much of a clue who is spying on them! Which would be a reason why they are trying so hard to down play the whole thing. LOL
]]>I assume that Snowden will be extremely careful about his choices, as he has been since the beginning. It doesn’t say much for the vaunted Cyber Command that he has been so successful in his efforts, or that they can’t find the clues he left behind. Another ‘triumph’ of privatizing government operations!
With the current cluster of ignorance and hate that has infected the US government I don’t expect rational policies anything soon – the Republicans and their Likud handlers wouldn’t allow it.
Now we are going to train and arm ‘Syrian rebels’, but no one can guarantee that they will fight ISIS, as their enemy is Assad. Another braindead move. The best way to stop a zombie apocalypse is to channel them to Washington – zombies eat brains and in DC they’ll starve to final death.
]]>Snowden in Scotland would definitely be an interesting development, Kryten, but I would wait to see what kind of government was installed before making any plans.
Cameron is going to look like a major loser if Scotland decides to split on his watch, and it could cause a rebirth of the independence movement in Wales. Things don’t look good for the ‘conservatives’ at the moment.
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