As soon as you find some evidence against Evolution, we can reconsider it. But being as ALL of the evidence gathered since Darwin was pontificating points to Evolution being the mechanism by which life changes, science (and the science classroom) should stick with that.
Awesome! We've got 150 years of scientific evidence to back it up. Fortunately, bad science has a short shelf life, right?
Dominionists, for those who don't recognize the term, are Christians (usually evangelical Protestants, though some Catholic groups exhibit dominionist theology) who believe that God's "laws" or moral wishes supersede any law drafted by men.
By that definition, I am a Dominionist, though it leaves out critical details in how I apply such a belief to my political views.
To these folks, abolishing abortion [...], banning homosexual rights [...], and creationism [...] are all crucial and pressing policies that must be enacted in any government.
No, to these folks, abortion, homosexuality, and the rejection of God are wrong. Laws exist to classify actions as right and wrong. Your answer to the question "Who is God?" influences your classification of right and wrong actions. You and I probably have different answers, how do we reconcile them when creating laws (or textbooks)?
Don't waste your time coming up with an answer, the Framers already did. We pick out the core values common to all people in the US, and make that our Constitution. We leave the right to have differences of opinions to the states and their own legislatures. Don't like your kids having to deal with competitive theories of the origins of the universe? Leave Texas and move to California.
So the way they see it, because the "liberals" and the "atheists"** cheated, they're going to fight back just as dirty-- but of course they'll justify their own actions as "saving the children", as that has demonstrably worked to enact skewed legislation for generations. Their efforts to mess with public school textbooks is but a taste of what these extremists are capable of, and are willing to do. The greatest shame is that they will think they have brought another Enlightenment and Revival to the US, when in fact they will have consigned their children to academic inferiority as China, India, and other nations progress. The conservatives who are participating in the name of ideological "balance" are digging their own graves as well, as they are more interested in indoctrination, not building up thinking skills in our children. I suppose that, given their permanent self-victimization, they'll blame our relative failure on the "liberals" and "atheists" too.
I want my children to question everything I teach them. It's the only way they'll learn to question everything your "unbiased" textbooks teach them, and everything your "progressive" politicians promise them.
The bible, and jesus, pretty much considered the worst thing one can do it be a hypocrite.
Wrong. Being hypocritical is almost universally regarded as a bad thing, but the Bible places no special emphasis on it being worse than any other sin. The verse you quote is Jesus telling His followers not to be hypocritical, but it's just one of many instructions He gave them. The Bible spends a great deal more time discussing man and his general relationship with God than it does hypocrisy. I pity the fool.
I can't tell if religious discussion on Slashdot is more like a bikeshed or an echo chamber. The article summary reads like the latter, but your comment sounds more like "RELIGION? OH HAI, I CAN HAZ OPINION?"
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