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Texas approves textbooks with Moses as Founding Father - C C - Jun 9, 2015
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2014/11/texas-approves-textbooks-with-moses-as-founding-father/
EXCERPT: Christian conservatives win, children lose: Texas textbooks will teach public school students that the Founding Fathers based the Constitution on the Bible, and the American system of democracy was inspired by Moses. On Friday the Republican-controlled Texas State Board of Education voted along party lines 10-5 to approve the biased and inaccurate textbooks. The vote signals a victory for Christian conservatives in Texas, and a disappointing defeat for historical accuracy and the education of innocent children....
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Texas Taliban war on public education continues
RE: Texas approves textbooks with Moses as Founding Father - Magical Realist - Jun 9, 2015
It's a friggn fairytale. Moses never existed. The Jews were never slaves in Egypt. And the Ten Commandments? Half of that document is about how to worship Jehovah properly. Don't make a statue of him whatever you do! What a defeat for proper historical education. Are they going to use the Bible as their official history book now? Delineate the rise of the Neanderthals from the Nephilim? Trace the origin of languages from the destruction of the Tower of Babel? Link the rise of the black "servant" race back to the curse of Ham's descendents? What a joke...