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I found this site in the GD. It's about a group of people trying to legally put the Bible into public schools. rolleyes

Just read through the little comics they have. surprised

On the comic entitled "evolution", they're saying that evolution is racism. Here are the exact words from one of the characters: "Don't you know that evolution is basically a racist concept? Some evolutionists still teach that white people evolved from "negroes" who evolved from apes -- Meaning white people are more evolved."

In that movie about it that the link of the book leads to. That beginning with the founding fathers. Ridiculous.

Just check this out. The Treaty of Tripoli is really all that's needed, but it still has some other interesting things: http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/summer97/secular.html

The U.S. was not "Founded in God" in any way, shape, or form. I also hate it when people use "America", since they don't seem to realise that that term encompasses two whole continents.

Now on to the Comics:

Pornography:
I thought it was funny how the Evil Nonchristian kid was viewed as being a complete addict and sleezeball. He's like shouting about how hot they are and stuff. Then his dad turns out to be loser. Rather amusing.
I watched porn for awhile. I'll admit it. But personally, I thought it got rather boring. I mean, you can only see so many naked women with overly massive breasts before you just start to yawn.
Not that sex has lost its appeal, it's just now sex has a bit more...meaning. Before, I was your typical lusty 13-year-old adolescent. Now...I don't know, I guess I wouldn't have sex just for the pleasure. That's boring. I would have sex if I actually loved the person.
It's kind of funny how pornography "cleansed me". It made me realise that sex is stupid unless you both honestly want to have sex with each other. I might unique in this, but I still think it's funny.
Mind you, I still wouldn't have sex until I was of legal age (I'm 15 now) and I was sure that both of us were clear of sexual diseases.

Homosexuality:
...What? First of all, it's been scientifically proven that you're born gay or bisexual. Gay men have hormone attractions that act like women's, and gay women (lesbians) have hormone attractions that act like men's. They're born that way. They have almost no control over it (Short of injecting hormones)
And what's with the bust on liberals? I'm sorry, but that was uncalled for!
And why was the medic talking about God and stuff? That was just stupid. As any actually trained medical personell and if they've any experience in genetics, they'll tell you that you were born that way. You can't change.

Oh, and about the Church's opposition to homosexuality: http://www.united-church.ca/humanrights/biblereferences.shtm

The Catholics are wrong. Many Catholic priests are gay, according to the news about all those ***** priests.

Safe Sex:
It was fine until about the 5th page when it started rambling on about how you should abstain from sex until marriage. Personally, I think that's a matter of opinion. Yet, Christianity is an opinion, so I won't go there. It's their life.

But really, safe sex is important. Sexual diseases and teen pregnancy are a huge problem, but just because you don't read the New Testament every day doesn't mean that either one will afflict you.

And if that nerdy kid had any real brains he would've figured out that God doesn't exist by now.

Abstinence:
And so another child is born blind...Poor kid.

Until birth, a baby is a parasite. 'nough said.

Do I really need to do the Rock Music thing? Whatever THAT was, it wasn't Rock.

EDIT: Ok, the Rock music one was ridiculous. I was done after the second page. I couldn't stand it. It's not like all rock musicians are Satanists or anything. U2, for instance, is a highly religious band. I still like them.

That...creature depicted in the comics was some kind of...I don't know what you would call that kind of rock, assuming it's rock.

Rock is a very broad term. They shouldn't use it like that. Hell, there's Christian Rock groups!

School Violence: What the hell? How is a book that depicts mass genocides, murders, rapes, and heaps of injustice going to prevent someone from bringing a gun to school? They'll need sources to back that up. Plus they encouraged students to walk up to an unstable person who's hearing voices in their head and tell them to drop the gun they're holding. That's just stupid.

Oh, and if you go to a regular high school, I would strongly discourage you to go around handing out Bibles screaming "REPENT!!!". It won't make you as popular as the comic seems to depict. Trust me.



The evolution one made me so angry! White men aren't "more evolved". It's just a difference in skin pigment. We're different sub-species. Blacks have been evolving as long as whites. Same with chimps. We're all just as "evolved".

I don't think the Church should even be talking about racism. Ever heard of the Inquisition? Or the Crusades? Yeah.

Oh, and that picture of the chimpanzee turning into a human, though cute, isn't really the concept of evolution. Humans didn't evolve from chimps. We're merely another branch off of the same ape ancestor.

"Just because a bunch of noisy people keep saying the same thing over and over doesn't make them right---And it doesn't make them experts"
The irony is agonizing.^

The rest is just made up. Carbon dating is highly accurate. If you do the math right, it's incredibley accurate, within a few hundred years. That's nothing when we're talking about millions of years.

Oh, and what's this about atheism being a religion?!? confused

That's it. I can't do this anymore. It's pointless to argue against this. It's so bloody ignorant it hurts my head.

I've never heard that one before. I know evolution and social darwinism were twisted to help support slavery but I've never heard of any thing like that actually taught as fact. Usually evolution sticks to theories of common ancestors for mankind as a whole and then of course microevolution.

Particularly amusing comic quote-
"Most evolutionists see creationism as being primarily a religious issue and to them religion doesn't belong in our public schools! But what they don't realize is they are letting their own religious belief of atheism override their examination of the facts!"

On another note, I must be doomed. I not only listen to Nine Inch Nails, but I've seen them in concert 3 times and I have no plans of stopping! :0

About the safe sex comic, a lot of girls my age that I know are on birth control too. They don't just use condoms and they don't go out and have tons of random sex. >.o

I really don't understand it. Yes, maybe they feel this way and think they are right but if they get protection and freedom of speech, then other people do too even if they don't like admitting that. If you don't want some one else forcing their religious and moral views on your lifestyle, then you can't feel you have the right to do that to everyone else. If you want to make sure your children hear about your religion's view of evolution, abortion, etc, then you should teach them that at home and not expect them to be taught your private views in a public school.



The Declaration of Independence does mention 'nature and nature's God.' The God the founding father's, or at least many of them and including Jefferson, had in mind was just that - Nature's God. Many were deists, not christian. They didn't all believe in the bible or in Jesus as the son of God.
In any event, you then just need the First Amendment and the fact that early mentions of God such as in the Declaration are gone in the Constitution.

Okay, so I just followed the early america link from Lethkar and it explained everything I just said about the constitution stuff. xD

Why does it matter if people say America? When you talk about the continents you say the Americas or give the full names if you want to be specific. America is just short hand. It's the kind of name that's to be understood within a given context.

those comics were s**t.

What bullcrap! scream

Every living organism is equally evolved, because we have a common ancestor. They don't understand how evolution works at all. It doesn't go in a chain like that. No current species evolved from any other current species. We evolved from organisms that are dead now.