ISIS and Christian fundamentalists can agree on something: Charles Darwin is bad. In Mosul, Iraql, the militants have explicitly banned teaching the theory of evolution in new school curriculums, despite the fact that it wasn't taught in Iraq previously.
Well of course this is the one area that the militant Muslims and militant Christians would agree.
After all an understanding of science threatens the existence of both of them.
Of course that is where the agreement ends:
The terrorists have also cut history, literature, art, music and Christianity classes from schools. Many parents have been keeping their children out of class as a form of resistance to the new academic programs.
Well actually now that I think about it the similarities really DON'T end there.
I mean sure Fundamentalist Christians would never reject the teaching of their religion in a public school, but they certainly would restrict any teaching about Islam.
And as for history, art, and music, well sure those would be retained just so long the history reflected the Bible's impact on it, the art classes featured religious imagery, and music was used to praise Jesus.
You know you take away the beheadings and genocide and we essentially have our own version of ISIS right here in the good old US of A.
So very true in SOME churches. Certainly not all churches have that attitude.
ReplyDeleteApparently, some of those fighting for ISIS are former members of the US military and perhaps Blackwater. These people are so used to fighting wars, it is their way of life and they know nothing else. Thank you "W" and Dick, I've got my own bunker, and oxygen tank, Cheney for privatizing much of our military with contractors, like Haliburton. Profit before country!
ReplyDeleteLet's call them what they are:
DeleteMercenaries!
Adrenalin junkies indulging their fantasies of sadism/torture and killing/slaughter for high financial rewards with none to curb them.
They have been a scourge in all nations and so-called cultures since the Dark Ages, and it will not change.
Yeah, just substitute killing Women's Reproductive Healthcare doctors for beheadings, and women who die from botched abortions for genocide, and they match up nicely.
ReplyDeleteHave thought of the right wing social conservatives of our country as the "American Taliban" for years now and so should you.
ReplyDelete"And as for history, art, and music, well sure those would be retained just so long the history reflected the Bible's impact on it,..."
ReplyDeleteWon't happen gryphen! You know darned good and well that history is CRAMMED with all sorts of religious impact (and not just biblical, either) - the overwhelming majority of it being negative, like wars.
You don't really believe they would be honest enough to actually TEACH how major organized religion is at the root of the majority of our conflicts, do you?
there is no evolution or creationism
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