Post #387,661
3/17/14 9:00:15 PM
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a small victory over the christianists
I want the "Bible Belt" sown with salt. The student, known as C.C., was asked by sixth-grade teacher Rita Roark to answer the following question on a test: ÂISNÂT IT AMAZING WHAT THE _____________ HAS MADE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When C.C. failed to respond ÂLord, Roark responded ÂyouÂre stupid if you donÂt believe in God. She also frequently denigrated his Buddhist faith, as well as the Hindu faith, referring to both as Âstupid.Â
When his parents complained to Sabine Parish Superintendent Sara Ebarb, they were told that Âthis is the Bible belt, so they should expect to find the Christian God in the classroom. Ebarb advised them that if they wanted an ungodly classroom, they should transfer C.C. to a school where Âthere are more Asians. As long as we're rearranging borders, can't we spit the Red states out?
cordially,
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Post #387,663
3/17/14 9:06:37 PM
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I sniff a story not quite right
let me look at a map, oh shares a border with texass, it could be true then. Cajuns wouldn't do that
Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep
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Post #387,671
3/17/14 11:32:12 PM
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But it is Louisiana.
Alex
ÂThere is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.Â
-- Isaac Asimov
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Post #387,684
3/18/14 10:06:41 AM
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those people are texarkanians who live in louisiana
northwest of the state. Cajuns are just as bigoted if not more but not on religious lines
Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep
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Post #387,664
3/17/14 9:07:19 PM
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That's a victory?
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Drew
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Post #387,666
3/17/14 10:11:16 PM
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He didn't include the link to the article
It is from the court victory when they got spanked and told to cut that shit out.
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Post #387,672
3/17/14 11:50:43 PM
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Small is right
Now that I've read the article ... Essentially they're now prohibited from doing all the shit that's already illegal that they were just caught doing anyway.
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Drew
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Post #387,676
3/18/14 2:56:29 AM
3/18/14 2:57:52 AM
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Yet another reason...
...why, for me, America remains a place to visit (soon, I promise, scout's honour, etc) and look at on the telly.
ETA: Crying shame. Such pretty, many landscape, much photo, wow!
Edited by pwhysall
March 18, 2014, 02:57:52 AM EDT
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Post #387,714
3/19/14 4:12:11 AM
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Here's the root of this nonsense (and as usual--the dis-USA
weighs in with the troglodytes.)
http://www.salon.com..._believe_partner/
This week, Pew Research Center published the results of a survey conducted among 40,080 people in 40 countries between 2011 and 2013. The survey asked a simple question: Is belief in God essential to morality? While clear majorities say it is necessary, the U.S. continues to be an outlier.
In 22 of the 40 countries surveyed, the majority says it is necessary to believe in God in order to be a moral person. ÂThis position is highly prevalent, if not universal, in Africa and the Middle East, says the report. No surprise there, but Asian and Latin countries such as Indonesia (99 percent), Malaysia (89 percent), the Philippines (99 percent), El Salvador (93 percent), and Brazil (86 percent) all fell in the highest percentile of respondents believing belief in a god (small G) is central to having good values.
Interestingly, clear majorities in all highly developed countries do not think belief in god to be necessary for morality, with one exception only: the USA.
Only 15 percent of the French population answered in the affirmative. Spain: 19 percent. Australia: 23 percent. Britain: 20 percent. Italy: 27 percent. Canada: 31 percent. Germany 33 percent. Israel: 37 percent.
So what of the U.S.? A comparatively eye-popping 53 percent of Americans essentially believe atheists and agnostics are living in sin. Despite the fact that a research analyst at the Federal Bureau of Prisons determined that atheists are thoroughly underrepresented in the places where rapists, thieves and murderers invariably end up: prisons. While atheists make upward of 15 percent of the U.S. population, they only make up 0.2 percent of the prison population.
KInda fits in with, A new Human Rights Watch report reveals the US fares very poorly in safeguarding the rights of its own population
(Linked in post of same title, other forum)
Repeating-self: wouldn't the rest of the planet fare much better in the coming Hard (for the planet) Times.. sans the entire dis-USA?
We have left no philosophical 'insights' to offer anyone--except the marlowes of the world, or other sociopaths.
Can I run on the Annihilation Ticket? (Betcha I'd garner more support than a one might suppose.)
Carrion--hmmm, nowadays, is that what we Are?
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