Why does this school board vote to remove America from classroom?

Question

Tell me why would liberals do such things.

Here's the article:

http://www.yankeecommentary.blogspot.com

Answer 1

Because they want everything to be politically correct and unoffensive to everyone.

This culture of political correctness which is being entrenched in our society through that handy method of “creeping incrementalism” will, if not stopped, further erode our society.

This is the way I see it.

The problem with America is we try to be too fair, and the result is chaos.

The biggest societal mistake America commits is trying to make everything perfect. Every miniscule offense, whether real or imagined, has to be "corrected". Hence, people develop a bizarre sense of absolute entitlement.

Filmmaker Michael Moore asks people throughout his movie on the Columbine massacre why America had so much violent crime, often involving guns. Here is the answer he has been looking for: the unrealistic sense of absolute entitlement driven into the minds of Americans.

Only in America does one person have the "right" to be offended by something that neither concerns nor even affects him. In Florida, ONE Muslim complained about a nativity scene in a library, so everyone had to be deprived of seeing a beautiful, traditional Christmas display because of one silly, petulant whiner. In another case, a person complained about a nativity scene, even though they also had a Jewish Menorah and Muslim religious symbols on display for people to enjoy.

People have gotten so crazy about their "inviolate rights" that when something relatively insignificant happens, they react by shooting someone.

The ACLU does not understand one simple concept: a society cannot function when everyone has the right to disrupt absolutely anything they don't agree with. Imagine if you had a big dinner party at your home, and "Sally" complains about all the dishes containing meat, because she is a vegetarian.

"Bill" objects to the gold-rimmed wine glasses because gold is sometimes mined by underpaid workers in third world countries.

"Janice" complains that the dinner plates were manufactured by a non eco-friendly company, and demands that her host destroy all the offensive china immediately.

"Ahmed" bitterly denounces his hostess because she is serving wine, which violates the precepts held dear in the Koran. Also, this infidel hostess should be covered from head to toe in a burka, because her exposed calves are an abomination to god.

I could go on and on, but you get the idea. Just like this dinner party could not even be held, a society cannot function when the legitimacy of absolutely everything is constantly challenged.

Enough of this chaos!

A few years ago during Christmas down in Florida, a library had a number of holiday and Christmas displays, including a Christian nativity scene, some Jewish holiday display, and another for Muslims. One...... yes, ONE Muslim complained that there was a (gasp!) Christian display on public property, and demanded that it be removed.

Therefore, hundreds of people were denied seeing a beautiful, traditional Christmas display because of one whiny Muslim.

(BTW: they left the other religious displays intact. See a bit of bias here?)

Maybe we should just have a "National Day of Outrage", one day a year when all these petulant, whiny miscreants can vent their outrage at every little thing...

Then the rest of the 364 days of the year they can just...

Suck it up and drive on!

Answer 2

I think the problem is with the "In God we trust" part of the poster. A poster with just the constitution or the bill or rights on it wouldn't be such an issue, I don't think.

The thing is, by juxtaposing a motto about God with historical American documents, you can see how one might interpret that as "anyone who doesn't trust in God isn't a real American."

Religious and political beliefs should be kept separate. You can be a proud American and be Hindu, for instance. Imagine how you would feel if the slogan on the poster said something that you didn't believe in. If you agree that all Americans should have freedom of religion, then we shouldn't be favoring one religion at the expense of all the others in our schools. Let's keep religion in our homes, churches, synogogues, mosques, etc. but out of schools and other government buildings.

Just one liberal's opinion. :)

Answer 3

Its in California no wonder. Americans here are a minority now hahaha there are times when I don't see another white person in days. And trust me most hispanics here have this really deep brown pride going on and hold their allegiance to Mexico not the US hell this one time I was even asked why I didn't know spanish I was like "WTF!? Cuz this is America?"

Answer 4

Don't use blogs for evidence of something.
They are just some guy that wrote something.

Answer 5

Forgetting that this is a blog with no source cited...

Is compulsory patriotism now an American ideal?

I think this country would do better to live its values rather than make empty displays.

Answer 6

Knowing it is in California gives me some idea. Liberals of course. And they will live to wish they had not.

Answer 7

The parents in this community should decide, the majority should rule, that's the American way....

Answer 8

Well, gee, Sherlock Holmes--maybe because everyone in this country aren't Christians?

Also, many of the founding fathers were DEISTS, not Christians. Actually, very few of them had good things to say about Christianity. Here's some actual quotes from Thomas Jefferson: "I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.", "I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology", and "Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."

Also, here's some quotes from other deists/agnostics/skeptics/atheists on the list of founding fathers...

JOHN ADAMS

"As I understand the Christian religion, it was, and is, a revelation. But how has it happened that millions of fables, tales, legends, have been blended with both Jewish and Christian revelation that have made them the most bloody religion that ever existed?"
-letter to F.A. Van der Kamp, Dec. 27, 1816

"God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there will never be any liberal science in the world."

"This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it."

GEORGE WASHINGTON

"Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by the difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be depreciated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society."
- letter to Edward Newenham, 1792

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

"I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did."
- letter to his father, 1738

". . . Some books against Deism fell into my hands. . . It happened that they wrought an effect on my quite contrary to what was intended by them; for the arguments of the Deists, which were quoted to be refuted, appeared to me much stronger than the refutations; in short, I soon became a thorough Deist."

"Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."

"The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason."
-in Poor Richard's Almanac

"I looked around for God's judgments, but saw no signs of them."

"In the affairs of the world, men are saved, not by faith, but by the lack of it."

THOMAS PAINE

"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half of the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind."

"What is it the New Testament teaches us? To believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married; and the belief of this debauchery is called faith."

"I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church. Each of those churches accuse the other of unbelief; and for my own part, I disbelieve them all."

Here's what a site says about the founding fathers: "One of the most common statements from the "Religious Right" is that they want this country to "return to the Christian principles on which it was founded". However, a little research into American history will show that this statement is a lie. The men responsible for building the foundation of the United States had little use for Christianity, and many were strongly opposed to it. They were men of The Enlightenment, not men of Christianity. They were Deists who did not believe the bible was true. "

and

"When the Founders wrote the nation's Constitution, they specified that "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States." (Article 6, section 3) This provision was radical in its day-- giving equal citizenship to believers and non-believers alike. They wanted to ensure that no single religion could make the claim of being the official, national religion, such as England had. Nowhere in the Constitution does it mention religion, except in exclusionary terms. The words "Jesus Christ, Christianity, Bible, and God" are never mentioned in the Constitution-- not once. "

and

"None of the Founding Fathers were atheists. Most of the Founders were Deists, which is to say they thought the universe had a creator, but that he does not concern himself with the daily lives of humans, and does not directly communicate with humans, either by revelation or by sacred books. They spoke often of God, (Nature's God or the God of Nature), but this was not the God of the bible. They did not deny that there was a person called Jesus, and praised him for his benevolent teachings, but they flatly denied his divinity. Some people speculate that if Charles Darwin had lived a century earlier, the Founding Fathers would have had a basis for accepting naturalistic origins of life, and they would have been atheists. Most of them were stoutly opposed to the bible, and the teachings of Christianity in particular. "


As an atheist, I do not was to see "In God we trust", because I am an American, but I do not trust God. I do not want to be forced to stand for the pledge everyday and say, "Under God", because I do not believe I am underneath any deity. Also, God does not mean "America". America does not have a right to claim God, as people from countries all over the world believe in Him. So it is safe to say that we should not remove "AMERICA" from the classrooms, but "GOD" is a thing that definitely needs to be removed. Stop brainwashing the children!

Answer 9

Unbelievable.

There is no excusing their behavior. It is just more of the self-hatred that libs are directing toward the nation as a whole.

Too selfish to commit suicide, I guess.

Answer 10

They must not what the students to be fully understand that they can choose whether or not they want to have religion in their lives.