The Creepy Christian Dogma Pushed by Religious Schools That Are Supported by Your Tax Dollars

If you live in a state with a voucher or corporate tax credit program funding "school choice," your state's tax dollars are funding the teaching of religious supremacism.

Are your state’s tax dollars funding the teaching of religious supremacism and bigotry? What about creationism? The answer is undoubtedly yes, if you live in a state with a voucher or corporate tax credit program funding “school choice." Full Story »

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Fred Gatlin
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by Fred Gatlin - May. 24, 2011

This long article is good and easy to read. The books used for Christian school lack in respectable information and good theology.

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Jack Dinkmeyer
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by Jack Dinkmeyer - May. 29, 2011

An excellent, somewhat longish article about right-wing fundamentalists’ approach to “education”. Story is well organized into subjects such as economics, social, history and government, math, etc. and relates some really scary abuses of education. If nothing else, religious zealots are comprehensive.

This isn’t education, it’s indoctrination. And of the worst kind: anti-Americanism, myths, distortions, outright prevarication. Bad enough rational citizens fund it through taxes; worse is these students growing up intellectually handicapped.

Non-evangelical and non-fundamentalist Protestant denominations are described as liberal, a dirty word in these texts. Paterson dedicates an entire chapter of her book to ... More »

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Dwight Rousu
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by Dwight Rousu - May. 24, 2011

Tax dollars should not be going to indoctrinate youth in bias, bigotry, and hate.

the textbooks are fiercely anti-abortion and virulently anti-gay, similar to the ideology of Religious Right organizations (heavily funded by Betsy DeVos and family) that ... More »

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Walter Cox
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by Walter Cox - May. 24, 2011

Worse than I could have imagined.

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Morton Kurzweil
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by Morton Kurzweil - May. 29, 2011

It makes you wonder why religious schools, religious institutions,and religious political groups are tax exmpt.

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Roland F. Hirsch
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by Roland F. Hirsch - May. 24, 2011

This is no journalistic merit in this blog post. It is a hate piece, expressing the author's far left ideology and animosity to mainstream American religion. The author did minimal research, or she would have learned that Islamic schools in the U.S. are infinitely more worthy of her concern that the limited number of Christian schools that were studied. She didn't even bother to find out what schools the students who receive tuition assistance actually attend. She smears all Christian schools due to her lack of knowledge about the great variety that actually exist. Gets a full 10 on the Krugman scale.

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