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How is promoting this kind of nonsense "an attack on christianity"?
Your post doesn't make any sense, but I know what you're getting at.
Where is Mother Jones when schools force students to sing ballads celebrating Barack Hussein Obama? "mmm-mmm-mmm!"
Where is Mother Jones when college professers are violating the law, by making students pledge their vote to Barack Hussein Obama AND putting their political party on the same form?
Here's a good one for ya...ready? Where is Mother Jones, when schools teach kids that Senator Joe McCarthy had anything to do with the House Un-American Activities Comittee? These are schools that don't even teach kids the difference between The United States House of Representatives and The United States Senate.
But, Mother Joke busts their asses to target these private Christian schools? Why do you suppose that is?
It taught everything I needed to know. There was literally only 1 chapter that focused on both the creationist viewpoint and the evolutionary viewpoint. They discussed how "dinosaurs" may be creatures like the leviathan that was referenced in Job. The OP is a spin job that was created to make the curriculum appear devoid of all facts. The curriculum for the different sciences taught me what I needed to know and personally I think they were better than what most of my publicly schooled friends received.
I was homeschooled and taught science in HS using the Bob Jones University Press books. I scored a 35 on the science section in the ACT, earned a bachelors in Molecular Biology, scored a 96% in the biology section on the PCAT (top 3% in the nation) as well as being selected to work on a research project and presenting my research twice while winning a 1st place award for best paper presentation at one of the meetings. I am now working on a doctorate (doctor of pharmacy). I think I turned out fine with a strong science background coming out of high school. :shrug:
Congratulations on you success.
I don't really think what they're teaching would effect careers in molecular biology or pharmacy however. Those can be compartmentalized. Also, its probably more useful to measure a population taught with those textbooks than just looking at your individual example.
I believe slave owners were kind. They had quite an investment in their slaves. They were valuable assets. I think the majority of slave owners probably did not abuse their slaves any more than they would abuse their horses.
It takes a special kind of apologist to try and downplay the evil that was slavery. Usually they are either ignorant of history or closet racists. So you gotta be careful cause you might confuse outright ignorant folks with racists. In this school's case, the claim is that it wasn't that bad because they weren't beaten daily! Oh great! What a relief. I guess that makes up for being bred, sold and treated like cattle; then having their cultural history and family structures destroyed. I guess it also makes up for 300+ years of zero or near zero amount of rights. Yeah, slavery wasn't as bad as they paint it! I'm convinced now!
The biggest myth told by the conservative right is that it was the progressive ideas of the mid 20th century that destroyed the black family structure. As if it had existed in full force during the 17th century or even after.
Yeah, it's very conducive to building families when the mother doesn't marry the baby-daddy(ies) because she would lose government support. Yet another gift of the progressive ideas of the 20th century.
I see... so if a person points out a slave owner did not beat, abuse, or kill their slaves.. that is supposed to be an endorsement of slavery?
interesting logic.
If you think that screws up their logic, wait until you bring up the fact that the majority of the slaves sold out of Africa were people captured during tribal warfare, by other Black Africans and instead of being killed out of hand, they were sold, thus being a slave actually saved their life. Because of this, Black Africans were also the core of and enabled the continuance of slavery.
I see... so if a person points out a slave owner did not beat, abuse, or kill their slaves.. that is supposed to be an endorsement of slavery?
interesting logic.
6. The KKK was A-OK: "[The Ku Klux] Klan in some areas of the country tried to be a means of reform, fighting the decline in morality and using the symbol of the cross. Klan targets were bootleggers, wife-beaters, and immoral movies. In some communities it achieved a certain respectability as it worked with politicians." —United States History for Christian Schools, 3rd ed., Bob Jones University Press, 2001
well, i'm not gonna get into a slavery discussion... I'm just saying it's ok to tell the truth about things and telling the truth doesn't equal support.
if folks want to believe that every slave as abused, beaten, or killed... fine by me.... it's not true, but they are free to believe as they will.
There's some historical truth to this, so this article's distortion of this point only adds more weight against it.
In short, it's a garbage article.
Try learning the definitions of apologetic before you debate "logic":
a·pol·o·get·ic (-pl-jtk) also a·pol·o·get·i·cal (--kl)
adj.
1. Offering or expressing an apology or excuse: an apologetic note; an apologetic smile.
2. Self-deprecating; humble: an apologetic manner.
3. Serving as or containing a formal justification or defense: an apologetic treatise on church doctrine.
MaggieD most certainly provided an excuse for why slavery wasn't all 'that bad' even though it's been widely accepted that the effects of slavery rank up there with the holocaust and the extermination of native americans.
Good to hear. There's also some historical truth in saying not all Nazis were for the extermination of Jews. However, we all know what Nazis were known for. So introducing that 'historical truth' as anything other than the 3rd equivalent of a fun fact is outright dishonest.
If people want to ignore the past..fine by me..it happened. You'd wonder why they are called Slaves--it doesn't have a positive connotation what-so-ever
Good to hear. There's also some historical truth in saying not all Nazis were for the extermination of Jews. However, we all know what Nazis were known for. So introducing that 'historical truth' as anything other than the 3rd equivalent of a fun fact is outright dishonest.
I distrust the article. This article is a smear-article from the partisan Left. If people are to take this "issue" seriously, please provide evidence from sources that are far more objective and respectful.
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