Some parents in Dupo, Ill. are not happy that a biography of President Barack Obama is required reading for fourth-graders. They say the book contains a host of controversial elements, not least of which is that it casts white Americans who disagree with Obama’s politics as racistRead the article here.
Make Robert Griffin's books mandatory reading in school. Parents make your children read Robert Griffin.
ReplyDeleteRead David Starr Jordan, too.
"Our children are being taught to sneer at Jefferson and bow to the image of Martin Luther King."
ReplyDelete-- Robert S. Griffin
I guess our kids need to be taught to bow only to Christ the King. Sneering equally at Jefferson and MLK is OK in my book.
ReplyDeleteJefferson was a deist and thought Jesus was a great teacher only. The Jefferson "bowderalized" bible consists only of Christ's words and all other words are deleted.
http://www.culturewars.com/2011/Wemhoff.html
"Jefferson was Jewish in his thinking, and he too, like Washington, saw that religion could be manipulated, or used, to serve the state."
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http://www.culturewars.com/2004/Fleming.htm
"But this is the same Jefferson who set out to rewrite the Bible to take into account what Jesus really would have said, had he the benefits of Jefferson’s enlightenment:
As [Jefferson] explained in a letter to John Adams, Jesus’ purpose had been the reformation of the “wretched depravity” of peculiar duties, and it was Jefferson’s intention, “in extracting the pure principles which he taught,” to “strip off the artificial vestments in which they have been muffled by priests, who have travestied them in various forms.”
In one way or another, the moral doctrines of Voltaire, Kant and the New England transcendentalists all derive directly or indirectly from the sort of bowdlerization* that Jefferson undertook. It was during the same period - the 18th century - that Stoic conceptions of universal brotherhood, international law and world government reemerged. "
You guess, Jeannon?
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