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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Stop being so accepting...and I mean it
Turns out our schools are poisoning our children.
No. It's not the food. It's the teachings of accepting the differences in others that is doing it. I mean, seriously, what were we thinking?
Last night, while at a school board meeting, I listened as a speaker lambasted the school district for teaching...of all things...tolerance.
I tried wholeheartedly not to roll my eyes while she mocked their diversity mission statement, while she said things like "When we stopped forcing people to believe like our founding fathers we took morality out of our schools."
No. It's not the food. It's the teachings of accepting the differences in others that is doing it. I mean, seriously, what were we thinking?
Last night, while at a school board meeting, I listened as a speaker lambasted the school district for teaching...of all things...tolerance.
I tried wholeheartedly not to roll my eyes while she mocked their diversity mission statement, while she said things like "When we stopped forcing people to believe like our founding fathers we took morality out of our schools."
Let's be serious. No one knows for sure what the founding fathers believed. We do know that the likelihood they were all devote Christians is not high. More probably, they were a mixture of deists, Christians, and possibly even atheist.
They fled from organized religion and as a group decided not to establish religious requirements under the constitution. It is true that they recognized a “Creator” or “Nature’s God” but they did so without ascribing to one particular religion.
They also believed that women had no rights and were appalled by the suggestion that they might one day own property.
They also believed that whites were superior to blacks. Of the first five presidents four of them were slave owners. It is reported that George Washington owned more than 200 slaves.
I, personally, don't want my kids to believe like that.
Acceptance and tolerance should be taught not only at school but also at home.
Respecting the beliefs of others, while still holding firmly to your own beliefs, would make the world a better place.
I have friends who do not believe in God.
I have friends who are gay.
I have friends who are black.
I have friends who have far different religious beliefs than my own.
They have never mocked me for my beliefs, my skin color, or my gender and I would never mock them for their beliefs, skin color or gender.
It is a sad state of affairs when a religious nut protesting under the guise of Christianity can proclaim publicly that our schools, by teaching our children tolerance and acceptance, are poisoning our children.
That's simply absurd.
They fled from organized religion and as a group decided not to establish religious requirements under the constitution. It is true that they recognized a “Creator” or “Nature’s God” but they did so without ascribing to one particular religion.
They also believed that women had no rights and were appalled by the suggestion that they might one day own property.
They also believed that whites were superior to blacks. Of the first five presidents four of them were slave owners. It is reported that George Washington owned more than 200 slaves.
I, personally, don't want my kids to believe like that.
Acceptance and tolerance should be taught not only at school but also at home.
Respecting the beliefs of others, while still holding firmly to your own beliefs, would make the world a better place.
I have friends who do not believe in God.
I have friends who are gay.
I have friends who are black.
I have friends who have far different religious beliefs than my own.
They have never mocked me for my beliefs, my skin color, or my gender and I would never mock them for their beliefs, skin color or gender.
It is a sad state of affairs when a religious nut protesting under the guise of Christianity can proclaim publicly that our schools, by teaching our children tolerance and acceptance, are poisoning our children.
That's simply absurd.
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