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LINK Christianity Today admits: 'Public schools aren’t godless'

We’re currently in the midst of another full-throated attack on public schools by conservatives who treat them as godless hotbeds of liberal insanity. If you believe their lies—and you shouldn’t—public schools are where young furries need litter boxes in the classroom, where teachers encourage kids to be LGBTQ, where sex education promotes risky behavior, where “Critical Race Theory” and “Common Core math” and unpatriotic history are regularly preached, and where pandemic-related mask mandates are suppressing student development. Conservative Christians have also attempted to censor books in school districts under the guise of protecting kids.

Underlying all of that is this belief that public schools are somehow anti-Christian, which also explains why football coaches can’t pray at midfield after games and why teachers can’t push Creationism on kids.

All of these things are lies or exaggerations.

The rumors are routinely debunked. Conservatives mistake the requirement of government neutrality with the loss of their own privilege. But trying to talk sense into them is futile when their false beliefs are just amplified in right-wing media.

That’s why we should give credit where it’s due: Christianity Today recently published an essay by Ericka Andersen (who’s hardly a liberal) saying in no uncertain terms that “Public schools aren’t godless.” Andersen spoke with a number of Christian parents whose kids are in public schools as well as Christian teachers who work in them, all of whom push back against the myth that public schools are hostile to their faith. ...

snytiger6 9 Oct 24
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Public schools are supposed to be secular institutions. In that regard there should be no mandatory prayers, no Christian flags on the podium and no pictures of Jesus or crucifixes in the classrooms.

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There are always morons that make it harder for others to live.

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It's always infuriating when religious extremists claim God and prayer are banned in public schools. In the first case, a supposedly all powerful being isn't subject to US law, right? Secondly organized religious services were banned, not prayer. In fact the Supreme Court ruling banning such services EXPLICITLY said prayer was not banned in public schools.

What was banned is mandatory prayer, like announcements over the intercom every freaking morning.

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The zealot Xtians who want political power over us don't care if god is in schools or not. Whining that Thou is not present, enough, seems to bother more parents than not. We are about to lose our nation to god so buckle up.

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