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Old 04-10-2014, 09:59 AM
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I thought it was wing-nuts and the Jesus Weasels (as opposed to actual Christians) in Texas that determined textbooks for the rest of the country by default.
Which is what worries me now that the Dragonette has our granddaughters down in Florida when they were getting a decent education in Canada.
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Old 04-10-2014, 10:07 AM
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So public school textbooks teach creationism? I'd worry more about their junk history.

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Old 04-10-2014, 11:01 AM
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So public school textbooks teach creationism? I'd worry more about their junk history.

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Most history is junk because it gets written by the victors, and everyone knows that they were lily white goody two shoes.
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Old 04-10-2014, 11:11 AM
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Most history is junk because it gets written by the victors, and everyone knows that they were lily white goody two shoes.
Either party can produce self-serving fiction. When losers write history it can get you 'payback' conflicts, like WW-II.
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You are correct. Then we have the wingnuts in Kansas trying to block studies of evolution and insert the theory of the earth presto chango magically appearing intact 6,000 or so years ago, compliments of a kindly white guy.
That is just proof positive the Jesus was special. How many blonde haired, white Palestinians have you met?
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Yea...he look like a younger God......
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Don't ya just hate it when you come to the "Off Topic" area and are bombarded with threads about politics and religion?
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Don't ya just hate it when you come to the "Off Topic" area and are bombarded with threads about politics and religion?
For real. Honestly, I hadn't even noticed it was in Off Topic.

WTF, guys?

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