rattlehead wrote:JimE wrote:
But I think this article is intended to scare the small town folks into supporting gun bans and such.
It's also an attempt to pin school shooting on those flyover country hicks who cling to their religion and their guns.
That's right. You know the city mouse is on board with gun bans. You know that the city mouse is divorced from gun culture in almost every way.
So where is the battlefield? "Cities" bounded by fields of corn. Not the sprawling metropoli of Chicago, Cleveland or even Toledo.
And who are you trying to influence? New teenage voters or younger, right? Hopefully before anybody teaches them about firearm safety. What better way to do this than to terrorize them when they're surrounded by State Capital?
See kids, gun's er bad, mkay.
People inside corn fields still get married, then they split up and the kids are floating around without a strong family--enter the Nanny State, the only constant in their miserable existence. The only identity they're able to hold onto.
It's not something that secular humanists deny, in fact, they confirm their intent:
In the
January/February 1983 issue of The Humanist magazine, a young scholar by the name of John J. Dunphy expressed the aim of humanists in education with these very blunt words:
"I am convinced that the battle for humankind's future must be waged and won in the public school classroom by teachers who correctly perceive their role as the proselytizers of a new faith: a religion of humanity that recognizes and respects that spark of what theologians call divinity in every human being. These teachers must embody the same selfless dedication as the most rabid fundamentalist preachers, for they will be ministers of another sort, utilizing a classroom instead of a pulpit to convey humanist values in whatever subject they teach, regardless of educational level -- preschool day care or large state university.
The classroom must and will become an arena of conflict between the old and the new -- the rotting corpse of Christianity, together with its adjacent evils and misery, and the new faith of humanism, resplendent in its promise of a world in which the never-realized Christian ideal of "love thy neighbor" will finally be achieved."
“It’s not that we don’t have enough scoundrels to curse; it’s that we don’t have enough good men to curse them.”–G.K. Chesterton-Illustrated London News, 3-14-1908
Republicans.Hate.You. See2020.
"Avarice, ambition, revenge and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution, as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams to Mass Militia 10-11-1798