The fundamentalist force

This gripping saga of Evangelical Fundamentalist Christianity has always insisted upon a literal interpretation of the Bible. They use it to teach their children to read, they use to teach their children history, they use it to punish. It is their moral compass, forgetting that it was developed 3000 years ago as a guide not a tool.

In this literal interpretation, Conservative leaders have used it as an example of staying the course,




Firstly the Congressman, by clear definition, does not have the right to supersede the separation of church and state in his capacity as a congressman. His statement is not inline with his specific allowance as a free speaker, for he is not a free speaker, he speaks for his district. Unless his district encompasses 100% his opinion and view, then his his opinion is not valid in the mode of law maker. He must make his decisions based on the nature of the problem from an informed standpoint, separate from his personal belief system.

Quoting from the bible, in a discussion regarding the state of our country's natural health, is a clear violation of the trust of the people that he would make decisions based on the needs of the people. There is no part of the bible that discusses modern problems and their solution, because so many of our problems would have insurmountably huge to those people. They after all believed the earth was flat, that god will take the problem away.

But we have learned in the last 2000 years that god will not take the problems away, they only get more compounded. We need leadership in new directions from the law of the land 2000 years ago.

Even our education, promised to us by our government, is not immune to this sort of inanity,


Education is our ticket to competitiveness. When we are able to think in fashions outside of determined dogma, we are able to develop ideas exclusive of past. A failure, in the eyes of the religious fundamentalist, is something absolute, but a failure to a person trying to succeed is a learning experience.

The teachers, who want students to move forward, are instead forced to succumb to the will of the strong. Like the politician, the teacher does not have the freedom to stray from the dictated teaching schedule. A teacher cannot teach French in Algebra class, no matter how much they desire to teach French.

Nor can a teacher teach anything other than Science in a science class. But if the School board says to teach "This great thing that looks a lot like our religion" in science class, and the teachers want to keep their job, then they must teach it. On the flip side, a teacher cannot teach Sunday school class in a public school.

Teachers do not have free speech rights to divert from the proscribed curriculum.