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What? I still have to write these things? Jeez. Didn't we just have an election or something?
First up in our exhibition of pious idiocy, Joshua Holland over at Smirking Chimp tells us a 'Public School Teacher Who Gives Lesson in Right-wing Tolerance.' You're gonna love this nutjob:
...Self-described conservative Baptist David Paszkiewicz used his history class to proselytize biblical fundamentalism over the course of several days at the beginning of this school year...
Among his remarks in open class were statements that a being must have created the universe, that the Christian Bible is the word of God, and that dinosaurs were aboard Noah's ark. If you do not accept Jesus, he flatly proclaimed to his class, "you belong in hell." Referring to a Muslim student who had been mentioned by name, he lamented what he saw as her inevitable fate should she not convert. In an attempt to promote biblical creationism, he also dismissed evolution and the Big Bang as non-scientific, arguing by contrast that the Bible is supported by what he calls confirmed biblical prophecies...
Now, you've heard me say before... the Sky Fairy has a sense of humor...
At the end of the meeting, LaClair revealed that he had recorded the remarks, and presented the principal with two compact discs.
It's under investigation by the school board now. Hopefully, he's toast. I'm sure there's a Christian school that will hire him, ASAP. What a poor, persecuted victim he must feel like.
Next up, from the Nation,
a horrible plan to breed more Christianists, in Coxsackie, NY. It's pronounced 'cock-sack-ey', not to be confused with Pussylips, VA.
...But Wolfson, Moore and thousands of mothers like them call themselves and their belief system "Quiverfull." They borrow their name from Psalm 127: "Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one's youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their enemies in the gate." Quiverfull mothers think of their children as no mere movement but as an army they're building for God.
Quiverfull parents try to have upwards of six children. They home-school their families, attend fundamentalist churches and follow biblical guidelines of male headship--"Father knows best"--and female submissiveness. They refuse any attempt to regulate pregnancy...
Pride argues that feminism is a religion in its own right, one that is inherently incompatible with Christianity. "Christians have accepted feminists' 'moderate' demands for family planning and careers while rejecting the 'radical' side of feminism--meaning lesbianism and abortion," writes Pride. "What most do not see is that one demand leads to the other. Feminism is a totally self-consistent system aimed at rejecting God's role for women ...
Who are these people? Get this...
Janet Wolfson is a 44-year-old mother of eight in Canton, Georgia. Tracie Moore, a 39-year-old midwife who lives in southern Kentucky,is mother to fourteen. Wendy Dufkin in Coxsackie has her thirteen. And while Jamie Stoltzfus, a 27-year-old Illinois mom, has only four children so far, she plans on bearing enough to populate "two teams." All four mothers are devoted to a way of life New York Times columnist David Brooks has praised as a new spiritual movement taking hold among exurban and Sunbelt families. Brooks called these parents "natalists" and described their progeny as a new wave of "Red-Diaper Babies"--as in "red state."
Scary stuff.. sounds like it's time to dump something in the water supply, no? I don't buy the whole
'conservative nutjobs will outbreed liberals and take over the world' crap. It makes an assumption that all of those born will stay nutjobs. And it doesn't work out that way. We can all think of someone we know who grew up in that environment and did everything they could to escape it as soon as they were able. And we're always going to be smarter than them just because of the fact that we live in reality, and as Stephen Colbert said....'reality has a well-known liberal bias.'
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