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And Then God Created U.S. HistoryPosted on Jul 14, 2009
The Texas Board of Education is currently reviewing the state’s social studies curriculum to decide whether God should have a bigger place in history class. On the revision committee that’s shaping the debate there’s a reverend who preaches that Hurricane Katrina, Watergate and the Vietnam War—three events surely to be found in history textbooks—are signs of God’s judgments on America’s sexual immorality.
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By Night-Gaunt, September 8, 2009 at 8:10 am Link to this comment
“We’re in an all-out moral and spiritual civil war for the soul of America, and the record of American history is right at the heart of it,” said Rev. Peter Marshall, a Christian minister and one of the reviewers appointed by the conservative camp.
Religious indoctrination is so common place and total that it isn’t even thought of as such. Only when any other ideas not their own are taught is it brought up. Whether it is “mind control or not” in relation to science and philosophy and history can be considered mind control. As for Obama, he isn’t a “liberal” or a “socialist” unless you consider helping Wall St. with our tax money as such. Then you are right! Fascism is the moniker on that. Helping the People is socialism, something he isn’t interested in.
Yes there is a faction of our country: their intelligensia, money bags, scientists, politicians, TV personalities and such want a theocracy here. They are relentless and it doesn’t matter how often they are proven wrong. When you are “above” science and any other means of human thought. I live in this backwards state. The rest of you are next!
Report thisBy samosamo, August 11, 2009 at 6:48 pm Link to this comment
By Warren73163, August 11 at 7:28 pm
““That is a cheap shot at religion. This very day, Obama is doing quite well controlling minds with his propaganda and offer of socialism and its parasitic living, something for nothing especially for deadbeats and losers who seek others to take care of their needs. It would be very naïve to think that the end of religion means the end of mind control.”“
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I can see where you are confused about about my comment of ‘religion being the best way of mind control’ as you did leave out the ‘oldest’ way to control people’s mind and/or thinking and your just settling in on religion when religion was made of both religious AND governments to control the masses that were being assembled into smaller and smaller areas called cities, I believe.
And religion still continues to be the numero uno way to control the people because if for no other reason that like myself, I ‘woke’ up to the idea one day that I have been baptized into a certain religion with NO say so in the matter and as one of my comments here, for the first 18 years of my life I was put on the second row of pews in ‘my’ church every sunday morning and night and I had to sit through sunday school.
Now adays, and I still say religion is a huge part in controlling the masses or those that attend some organized religious place, but the government AND NOW advertizing jumped in with their methods, no matter how similar to the old religious kind to the newer ways of distraction, obfuscation, disinformation and NO information.
And from what I have researched in my readings, organized religion just ain’t real.
Read some Gerald Massey books and Acharya S books or just google them to see what is most probably true.
The ‘son of god’ hardadee har har. Try the ‘sun of god’ and NO, end of religion(impossible) is NOT the end of mind control which is not just a group or institutional thing, hell, I bet you use mind control even if you don’t realize it when you convince someone to do something that they were not going to do in the first place.
Report thisBy Leefeller, August 11, 2009 at 4:58 pm Link to this comment
samosamo can respond as he sees fit, this tit for that, is not even an argument or form of discussion.
Ones dislike of Obama seems to have nothing to do with religion. If Warrens idea is correct, Obama has taken over the minds of minions in 6 months compared to 3000 years or more for religion, seems minions have compromised their principals to easily.
Report thisBy Warren73163, August 11, 2009 at 4:28 pm Link to this comment
By samosamo, July 14 at 9:39 pm #
“Organized religion is the best way and is definitely the oldest way of using mind control as a means of rendering people lost in their ability to connect”
That is a cheap shot at religion. This very day, Obama is doing quite well controlling minds with his propaganda and offer of socialism and its parasitic living, something for nothing especially for deadbeats and losers who seek others to take care of their needs. It would be very naïve to think that the end of religion means the end of mind control.
Report thisBy samosamo, July 23, 2009 at 8:13 pm Link to this comment
Blessed is the day when I realized that the 18 years of being put on the 2nd row in church was, as I suspected, a plate of grease and a load of crap.
Life is too short to have to be subjected and wasted by the rants and ravings of totally disconnected fanatics and I hope that they eventually will simply disappear.
Report thisBy Leefeller, July 23, 2009 at 7:04 pm Link to this comment
ITW,
Lies not, for the fanatics foreheads wrinkled in thoughtless perspiration and their little heart beats march to the drummers of ignorance, not lies for in their minds their cause is just and most noble, though not true.
Report thisBy Inherit The Wind, July 23, 2009 at 2:32 pm Link to this comment
This is why I use “Inherit The Wind”. It’s a call against the dangerous ignorance of the religious who, in their ferver, want to cripple our children with lies.
Report thisBy Leefeller, July 15, 2009 at 7:42 am Link to this comment
Proselytizing beliefs is most important to those who are feeling unhappy in their lives as they turn out. Causes provide a fulfilling an empty void, so the Christian Cause is most noble in the minds of fanatics, it provides some comfort for those groups who need this fulfillment. Causes need no reason or truth, for the cause is right in the mind of the fanatic.
So we have a constant address for causes from different fanatics like a buzzing or humming in the ears of the sane.
Creationism is right because in ones mind it was told so. Looking at North Korea and the washed minds that believe what they were told should be a clue, even to the point of dieing for their cause, any fable or lie, it does not matter in the mind of a fanatic, the belief is true in their mind.
Report thisBy samosamo, July 14, 2009 at 6:39 pm Link to this comment
Organized religion is the best way and is definitely the oldest way of using mind control as a means of rendering people lost in their ability to connect with nature and it damn sure has worked and to this day it is working because the people cannot be allowed to think critically for themselves as that would interfere with those who would use that control for their benefit and delight in creating anything that but what it propounds.
Report thisBy hippie4ever, July 14, 2009 at 4:16 pm Link to this comment
Nothing stupid coming out of Texas surprises me anymore.
Report thisBy Folktruther, July 14, 2009 at 3:33 pm Link to this comment
I think I am changing my mind again. Sorry. I think earthpeople DO need something to worship in our fight against capitalism and, more generally, oppressive power. Clio, tghe godess of history doesn’t seem to cut it, the Greeks not being very religous. Maybe Gaia, Mother Earth, would be a better repository for people’s reverence. She seems an old favorite and turthers like Tao reverence the earth, and Zionists have their Holy Land, it would just be question of generalizing a reverence for the land. Possibly there is such a cult already.
Report thisBy BruSays, July 14, 2009 at 3:26 pm Link to this comment
Hurricanes are caused by low pressure systems that form over warm water areas in the summer and fall. Water vapor is pulled from the ocean surface and in the absence of a wind shear, the water vapor spirals toward the center of low pressure area, increasing in intensity as more water vapor is pulled into the system. They travel more or less predictable paths, eventually turning poleward where they dissipate. Hurricanes perform the function of helping to transport excess heat from the tropics to the temperate zones.
Watergate was caused by a nervous, under-confident administration with far more power than common sense, fueled by an overblown sense of entitlement.
Vietnam, the war, was caused by civil and economic unrest in a poor, former colonial power torn between a corrupt military ruler pressed on by an equally corrupt northern oppressor and complicated by a clueless and nervous nation 6,000 miles away that thought it was playing dominos.
End of story. No reference to God, Jesus, the Virgin Mary, Moses, Adam or Eve need be included. (What - has the Texas electorate - Austin excepted - been trying to lure Sarah Palin south as their next governor?
Report thisBy richard roe, July 14, 2009 at 2:31 pm Link to this comment
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Schools should teach about the Christian’s god, right along with the gods of the Romans, Greeks, Egyptians and all the other myths that have wound up where they belong; in the dustbin of history.
People who believe in god are seriously myth-taken.
Report thisBy Rodger Lemonde, July 14, 2009 at 1:38 pm Link to this comment
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Sounds like a Jihad. By calling it a war they justify murdering those who disagree. Nice American value there. When will we reign in the American Taliban? They ‘practice’ religion but never manage to get it right. Funny when lightning or a tornado destroys a church they don’t think it’s anything other than a bad break but anything can be gods disapproval of something they don’t agree with.
Report thisI for one can hardly wait for the rapture, then this christian trash will disappear for good. The planet will breath a sigh of relief.
By P. T., July 14, 2009 at 1:05 pm Link to this comment
There should be more emphasis on the Salem witch trials in history class.
Report thisBy Mary Ann McNeely, July 14, 2009 at 12:50 pm Link to this comment
Texas appears to be the place where the rope that America will hang itself with is being woven.
Report thisBy rollzone, July 14, 2009 at 12:26 pm Link to this comment
hello. Texicans can teach whatever trend they choose. the importance of diversity, as opposed to narrow mindedness, is exemplified by declaring Christianity, and not God; was the author of American history. it is not solely one belief system that composed this nation’s history. it was the belief in one God. declaring God acts with vengence by smiting multitudes of innocent peoples, is not my God either; but is an opinion that enables questioning, and engages the learning processes. hysterically the crusades are another difficult example to promote. darwinism may be no substitute, but it also deserves a posture in the natural environmental developement of a species.
Report thisBy tomack, July 14, 2009 at 12:16 pm Link to this comment
In the state where pigs really do fly.
Potentially dangerous outcome, hopefully the debate will either drag on forever or cooler heads prevail now. There may be a few other state boards that would like to see this precedent set, and many more Evangelical groups willing to help. Just look at what the Salem Group has done to radio stations in the last 10 years. Scary man, scary…
Let’s see, what happens next—after A government starts editing the history books and public curriculums? I’ve read about it somewhere…...
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