What is an Articulate Informed Creationist

Maybe it isn't allowed because nuts like your brother are as likely to proselytize for their religion rather than teach the Bible.

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People For the American Way:

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It is perfectly acceptable to teach about the Bible in public schools, so long as the instruction is presented objectively, as part of secular education, and not as history or from a particular sectarian perspective.

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There is a problem with proposed curricula:

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However, across the country, school districts are being asked to adopt a Bible curriculum produced by a private group called the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools (NCBCPS).

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Many of the proposed curricula are really attempts at indoctrinating kids into evangelical Christianity.

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Board member Bruce Majors said, "we want to teach our children that the Bible is the truth.

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I've done everything the Bible says, even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff! -- Ned Flanders

Actually, the US has never been very prone to thinking.Many of the Founding Fathers were brilliant intellectuals, but that was pretty much the last time intellectual thought had any place in the public discourse.

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I've done everything the Bible says, even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff! -- Ned Flanders

We've already had several threads where we've tried to disabuse you of the myth that the Founding Fathers founded a government based on Christian principles. It's up to you if you want to stubbornly hold onto that particular error, but it's not really on topic here.- That may be so. We've come a long way since 1776, and we know a lot more than they did then. But I suspect that at least some of them would have been able to keep up the advancement of knowledge and to accept how the ideals they worked for have progressed. After all, many of them were great intellectuals; it's hard to think that they all would be mentally stuck in the 18th century.- Perhaps. If Jefferson or Adams ever joins this board and are subsequently banned you can bring the issue up with Percy.

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I've done everything the Bible says, even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff! -- Ned Flanders

That's a good question. As I've said, since independence, US society has never been too fond of intellectuals or rationality. Americans have always been fond of emotionalism and "gut instinct". I dunno why -- it seems to be a national trait.

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I've done everything the Bible says, even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff! -- Ned Flanders

And somehow you even manage to work in your other favorite boogy-man.

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I've done everything the Bible says, even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff! -- Ned Flanders

I was just pointing that that your posts weren't really contributing to the discussion. Maybe I should have said so more explicitly.

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I've done everything the Bible says, even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff! -- Ned Flanders

Heh. That's sort of what I say sometimes, too.But only a portion of the thumpers left the mother country. And the Puritan zealots only formed a portion of the population, and mostly in portions of New England at that. The US was primarily settled by people hoping to strike it rich.My guess is that as the American population was pushing West, they were too busy shootin' Indians and beatin' slaves to really give much thought to deep thinkin'. And, in fact, they probably had to justify their depravities in some way, and the Bible was as good a place as any to look.

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I've done everything the Bible says, even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff! -- Ned Flanders

Not very many. I can't even think of one off-hand.

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He fought for the South for no reason that he could now recall, other than the same one all men fought for: because he'd been a damn fool. -- Garth Ennis