National Center for Science Education is a bulwark against fundamentalist BS being forced on our educational system, and worthy of your support.
Oklahoma has amended its request for 55,000 Bibles to be placed in public schools that initially matched a version of the holy book endorsed by former President Donald Trump.
The request was amended Monday and no longer requires the Bibles to include U.S. historical documents such as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution — requirements that match the “God Bless the USA Bible” that Trump endorsed this year and that are several times more expensive than similar Bibles that don’t include the U.S. documents.
The new request says the historical documents may be included together or separately and extends the deadline for offers to supply the items by one week, from Oct. 14 to Oct. 21.
The request is part of State Superintendent Ryan Walters’ efforts to require Bibles in public school classrooms, which has been met with resistance by some of Oklahoma’s largest school districts.
As if there are not problems enough, lets make a anti science theocracy. Works in Afghanistan.
There are large numbers of Americans who are being taught from childhood to create a theocracy here. There are Christian schools that push Christian nationalism heavily to its students, and the whole ‘school choice’ and voucher thing is about funneling more students to those schools. It’s essentially creating a generation of Christian warriors wanting to get into politics and direct governmental change. Ryan Walters of Oklahoma is a direct result of those efforts – he’s an early example of a kid from the Christian school system, but in a few years there will be many, many others.
Bard Onishi has documented some of this:
https://www.bradonishi.com/books/
Here is a leader of the thoecracy efforts:
Brad, theocracy – it’s late.
I spent many years on Creation v Evolution forums in the noughties.
The NCSE does good work fighting theocrats that keep popping up in various school districts: Besides regular donations, I once sent them a tabletop whack-a-mole game.