From: hbcs1010@blurt.oswego.edu
Newsgroups: alt.atheism
Subject: Re: Hilarious Christian Propaganda...
Date: 14 Dec 92 16:48:09 GMT
Organization: SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego, NY

In article <1992Dec11.201459.9331@raven.alaska.edu>, fsrey@rama.acf-lab.alaska.edu (Rex E. Young) writes:
> [Much deleted]
>> This is hilarious but what is really scary is an article in today's  
> Denver
>> Post.  A public school in the Denver area has been putting the above  
> viewpoint
>> in its classrooms by teaching to its students "God holds the atoms and
>> molecules together."  There have been also visual aids which include  
> pictures
>> of angels taking atoms to heaven, apparently so God can pass his hand  
> over
>> them and make them stick together.
>> 
>> One parent with an engineering background discovered what the school was  
> doing
>> after a parent-teacher conference.  The school has had the materials  
> relating
>> to "God and His molecules" since 1984, and distributes them to the  
> teachers,
>> but it's up to the teachers to decide exactly how to present the matter  
> to
>> students, i.e., whether to use the God reference or not.
>> 
>> I don't have a copy of the Post with me (and not everything I have  
> recounted
>> might necessarily be true), but if there's interest I'll bring it to the
>> office and post relevant sections of it.
>> 
>> In other news concerning the Denver area, there recently has been a  
> massive
>> Marian convention here, with hundreds of people trotting about trying to
>> find signs of the Virgin Mary and the cross in everything.  Some idiot  
> of
>> course started staring at the Sun and others soon followed his/her  
> example.
>> A picture in the paper even showed a half dozen women squinting up.  I
>> guess there'll be a few score more cases of blindness due to damaged  
> retinas
>> very soon.
> 
> Here in Fairbanks, there was a local fundamentalist group about two
> years ago, tried to have a learning series removed from local public
> schools because of alleged satanic references.  At about the same time,
> a new phone book was issued with a photo of a local landmark on it.  
> The background was trees (we have them everywhere up here in cas you
> hadn't heard).  In these trees, the expert they had imported to 
> testify against the books found three 'Satanic images'.  Mind you, this
> was in trees.  I thought trees were god's creation.?  Perhaps I 
> misread the bible.  I can't think of any direct quotes right now.
> anyone care to give that one a shot?  It's probably pointless to 
> say that the books are still in the schools, and the telephone books
> weren't recalled.
> __________________________________________________________________________
> A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored
> by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency
> a great soul has simply nothing to do.
> 
> I hate quotations.
> May 1849
> 
> -Ralph Waldo Emerson
> 
> Rex Young @ Fairbanks, Ak.



as i recall, the fundamentalists tried to get webster's dictionary banned in
tennessee(?) some years ago. and, i believe, cinderella and a few other fairy
tales. says a lot for their mind(?)set, doesn't it?

-diedre
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