All too true. The Evangelicals had minimal influence and kept their distance from the political process until Roe V. Wade. Falwell and the Moral Majority (?!) commenced a culture war that has proceeded with almost no organized opposition. And here we are, still only vaguely admitting their plan has worked out of fear that they'd be offended.

I was shocked when I questioned the school teachers at my daughter's grade school; the lady teaching biology had no idea, and that is just horrible given how fundamental evolution is to our reality.

The American educational system has been compromised and that has brought us to this point. Originally the idea was to help all of us learn but along the way this changed into things like not teaching government in schools and no longer having to learn cursive writing, etc, etc. The religious were enticed away by QAnon type beliefs that slowly entered the system. Some of these went back a few years and some of them are things believers fear. Along comes your Cheato and gets a following by claiming he hates everything that you do. Followers claim he is going to come back any day now. Well, maybe in July. Our political system is being set up for fascist dictatorship and the ignorant are just too dumb to know it.

Aron Ra is running a series on education now with things text books get wrong. He is running the series on You Tube. Our educational system is being run by the religious these days. They want tax money to fund Christian Schools and prayer back in public schools, but have a holy shit fit if another religion seeks the same. More reason now than ever to find a dying town and take it over for a populace of non believers!

It's not the educational system but the growing inequality in the society that is the problem.

Education cannot compete with what the child is exposed to in his family and community. We are primarily social and emotional animals not individualistic, rational ones.

Growing inequality promotes growing desperation and desperate thinking. Teaching calm, rational analysis cannot compete with the conditions and thinking produced in the home and community.

Notice that other more egalitarian societies do not have this type of irrational thinking anywhere close to the extent that we do. Their satisfied and fulfilled populations grasp at neither conspiracy nor religion.

1. Religion ... pure and faultless is this: to help widows and orphans in need and avoiding worldly corruption. James 1:27

Why are you referring to anything other than helping widows and orphans in need and avoiding worldly corruption as a religion?

2. Biblical text is often referred to as "religious text", yet those most often calling it religious text is unaware of one of its major themes or motifs. Establishment and enforcement of governing people is one such major theme. I.e. taxation and government requiring identification for taxation and government control.

3. Intelligence capabilities is one major distinguishing trait separating homo sapian from any other known creature. Why are children placed in kindergarten rather than college, and why isn't all college completely free for all people of Earth?

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