Since the fundies have been mostly failing at their attempts to teach creationism in the schools, some of them are trying a different tactic to impose their religion on the rest of us. If they can’t get the Bible in through the back door, they’ll try the front door!

The National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools has developed a curriculum that teaches the Bible as history and literature. I have no problems with the Bible being taught as part of a comparative religion course, but their curriculum isn’t comparative. It just presents the Bible on its own. Furthermore, even if the Bible is significant enough of a historical document that it is worth teaching, the curriculum should be developed by neutral parties, such as historians and anthropologists, not ministers and preachers. As it stands now, their course appears to be a thinly-veiled attempt at religious indoctrination.

I hope to have time in the near future to examine their devious efforts in more detail. In the meantime, “enjoy” this commercial from fundie doofus, Chuck Norris.

(YouTube page is here)

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