Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann are both seeking the presidency of the USA, cite USA history and science incorrectly, and lie at every convention or group they address.
Robert Vander Plaats of Iowa, with the support of pseudo-scientist Stephen Meyer of the Discovery Institute, seeks to destroy education in Iowa and follows the diktat of Martin Luther and Adolf Hitler in denying human rights and civil liberties. Evangelical extremists throughout Iowa have flocked to his cause to enshrine the Bible as the source of wisdom, to subordinate women in obedience to men, and has merged tactics with the Denver, IA KKK and neo-Nazis throughout the State of Iowa.
Harold Camping predicted the world would come to an end on May 21, 2011, and that the believers in Jesus would experience a rapture and rise into heaven. It did not happen, nor has it happened at any time in the past when it was predicted by prophets, priests, and pastors. When will the rapture come?
Keith Ratliff, Sr., of Des Moines, Iowa, has called for the limiting of freedom in the USA, and argues that civil rights are only the rights of Black people because of their skin color. His message of hate is pounded out while he slaps his bible against whatever podium he is near yet his words prove that he is ignorant of the bible he is misquoting.
More students are dropping out of high school every day, at an alarming rate. As of 2007 it was one student every 26 seconds. The cause: bad schools, poorly trained teachers, inadequate librarys, and politicians who want to “save money” at the expense of an educated populace, with the Tea Party and GOP taking aim at further dumbing down learning and the advancement of civilization
Racism has been a part of recorded history since its beginning of more than 15000 years. Much of it has come out of a myth that is popular among Jews and Christians: Genesis 9:20-27 which is plagiarized from a far older Egyptian text based on the theology centered around the God Osiris, coupled with ancient Greek tales.
Ignorance in the USA is not “creeping along” but running backwards surpassing all scientific truths and realities in quest of the alma mater narcotic nipple of complacency and wishful thinking—and it is not just in the USA, it is a worldwide contagion. Ignorance breeds hatred and violence as seen in the twin evils of the …
A good teacher is a subject matter expert. The good teacher enables and assists students to learn and encourages the student to always question everything. Many students, however, believe that a good teacher gives them high marks, requires little reading, does not worry about poorly composed papers, and wants the student to love them, not become a true seeker after truth.
Labor unions have been attacked as un-American in Republican-led states. Labor is accustomed to being belittled, degraded, defamed, but it is because of collective bargaining that workers in the USA enjoy an eight hour work day, a five day work week, unemployment benefits, and more.
Evangelical Christians claim that abortion is forbidden in the Bible. Where is it forbidden in the Bible? This essay looks at the earliest records on killing and abortion, and then presents a copy of a scroll that first uses the term abortion in what many consider to be Christian documents.