"We are now in the process of putting born-again Christians on every school board in America.... A school board with five members needs only three Christians to take complete control of a school district. You can literally own that system and control all personnel, curriculum, materials, textbooks and policies."
-- Robert L Simonds, quoted from Texas Freedom Network
2006-09-13 06:30:13 · 35 answers · asked by CRJPILOT 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yes it is very frightening. We overthrow the Taliban in Afghanistan only to elect them here. Getting Christians on school boards is the first step in a path leading to public executions of non-belivers in sports stadiums.
2006-09-13 06:34:08 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋
This makes the US no different than Islamic governments where religion dictates law. Our country's founders created a separation of church and state for a reason. Christianity does not belong in our government and it does not belong in public schooling.
"Intelligent Design" is bad enough. But the real sadness is the Bush administration's Christian influence on sex and health education. I am 24 years old and a college-educated professional, but as a teenager ALL of my knowledge of sexual health and STDs, etc. came from my health class. Depriving today's and the future's teenagers of this life-altering knowledge should be a crime. The morality of abstinence is a great lesson to be taught in churches and homes. The necessity of sex education belongs in schools.
2006-09-13 06:37:11 · answer #2 · answered by Sarah 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes, very much so. It's as if what they want is a theocracy, and that doesn't turn out well for the people who disagree--or for many who agree, for that matter.
This is why the "small" elections, like school board and primary, mean *so* much. Skip these, and you'll find that the churchgoers who got all whipped up about "secular humanism" have chosen for you because they have been told that's literally their mission from God. You probably won't like their choice.
2006-09-13 06:37:11 · answer #3 · answered by GreenEyedLilo 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yep. Christian 'Dominionists' (Reconstructionalists, Theonomists) have largely usurped the local level political apparatus of the Republican Party, and are engaged in a sub rosa process to politically motivate moderate Christians under the false cover of religious issues such as morality and family values. The goal is nothing less than the takeover of all elective offices in the USA.
Their doctrine comes from the Bible, starting with the term 'dominion' at Genesis 1:28... “And God said unto them, [Adam and Eve] Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have DOMINION… over every living thing.” They interpret DOMINION as: “... a supremacy in determining and directing the actions of others or in governing politically, socially, or personally.”
They want to remake the USA as a theocracy... and they are succeeding.
Its most common form, Dominionism, represents one of the most extreme forms of Fundamentalist Christianity thought. Its followers, called Dominionists, are attempting to convert the laws of United States so that they match those of the Hebrew Scriptures. They intend to achieve this by using the freedom of religion in the US to train a generation of children via home-schooling and in private Christian religious schools. Later, their graduates will be charged with the responsibility of creating a new Bible-based political, religious and social order. One of the first tasks of this order will be to eliminate religious choice and freedom. Their eventual goal is to achieve the "Kingdom of God" in which much of the world is converted to Christianity. They feel that the power of God's word will bring about this conversion. No armed force or insurrection will be needed; in fact, they believe that there will be little opposition to their plan. People will willingly accept it. All that needs to be done is to properly explain it to them.
All religious organizations, congregations etc. other than strictly Fundamentalist Christianity would be suppressed. Nonconforming Evangelical, main line and liberal Christian religious institutions would no longer be allowed to hold services, organize, proselytize, etc. Society would revert to the laws and punishments of the Hebrew Scriptures. Any person who advocated or practiced other religious beliefs outside of their home would be tried for idolatry and executed. Blasphemy, adultery and homosexual behavior would be criminalized; those found guilty would also be executed. There are two conservative Christian pastors in Texas who have advocated the execution of all Wiccans. Ralph Reed, the executive director of the conservative public policy group the Christian Coalition has criticized Reconstructionism as "an authoritarian ideology that threatens the most basic civil liberties of a free and democratic society."
By failing to openly confront this insidious agenda, we have sown the seeds of our own destruction, while these religious wing-nuts are paving the way to Armageddon with gleeful anticipation.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/reconstr.htm
http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/HistoryOfReconstructionMovement.html
http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/Clarkson_RiseOfDomionism.html
2006-09-13 06:38:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
No, because people like that have a long-standing habit of forgetting that a federal court will eventually slap down their theocratic efforts, usually at great cost to the taxpayers of the district that was stupid enough to elect them. By printing foolishness like the piece you cite, they provide the courts with clear evidence of their intentions, despite their tendency to try to argue other intentions when called into court over it. By having a clear religious purpose for their overreaching, they make it quite certain that they will lose in court.
I am a little impressed, however, that one of these religious nuts somehow figured out that 3 is a majority of 5. He probably went to a good public school instead of a Christian madrasa, like he apparently wishes to create with taxpayer dollars.
2006-09-13 06:35:55 · answer #5 · answered by BoredBookworm 5 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Disgusting. Even when I was trying my hardest to be "Christian," contradictions like that turned me off. I was never threatened by the law or non-believers; I wanted to hear what everyone had to say. I couldn't conceive of selectively applying the Constitution when so much blood was shed to invoke it. The hypocrisy and hatred turned me way from organized religion. Christianity is shooting itself in the foot. Eventually, the only visible Christians will be the obviously mentally-ill and illiterate. Decent people in our society can't live by the hypocrisies that being "Christian" requires.
"Texas FREEDOM Network"? Freedom is the antithesis of "dictatorship." Apparently, the believers can't put that one together.
2006-09-13 06:34:05 · answer #6 · answered by georgia b 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
What does a persons religeous beliefs have to do with their ability or inability to serve on a school board. I'm sure there are plenty of non-christians and christians on school boards that do a great job and some that do a terrible job. No true Christian would use a position like that to force their religeous beliefs onto others.
2006-09-13 06:35:57 · answer #7 · answered by Rick D 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
The born again christians would have no power. Introducing Christian testbooks in public schools is against the US Constitution. Prayer in schools have been abolished; Christian symbols is a no no. Would born again Christians be able to change the constitution?
I don't think so.
2006-09-13 07:28:26 · answer #8 · answered by Roxton P 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
That is by far the best news I've heard in a long time. Maybe we can get the American Crisis under control, since society since we took God out of schools. Thanx for the great thought.
2006-09-13 06:47:52 · answer #9 · answered by Casey M 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
One hopes ignorance will never reign. But if it does, it just means future generations of Americans will reap the fruits of theocracy. Hey, if Iran can do it, why not the U.S.?
2006-09-13 06:36:29 · answer #10 · answered by JAT 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋