thepete.comUPDATE: Seems like the site I cite as my source for this story is a fake news site. Scroll down to the comments section for more on this.
Here’s another story from SwiftReport.Blogs.com–the Bush 43 Admin is pushing for Immaculate Conceptions (ICs) to be taught in school–mind you–this isn’t just about Jesus–they want kids to learn about immaculate conceptions in general. Here are a few clips from a post at SwiftReport.Blogs.com:
In his 2006 budget, President Bush is proposing a significant increase in spending on education funding, including curricula that teach teenagers about ‘immaculate conception’ or ‘virgin births’ as a cause of pregnancy. The curricula change is a major victory for social conservatives, who have pushed for years to get so-called miraculous gestation included in high-school health text books.Congressional doctors Weldon, Frist say that they’ve seen virgin births in their own medical practices
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If President Bush gets his way, highly regarded abstinence education programs will soon be even more prominent in US high schools. Mr. Bush has proposed that as much as $270 million be spent teaching kids to abstain from sexual activity until they’ve joined in holy matrimony with a partner of the opposite sex.
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According to its new official definition, to be included in the glossaries of high-school health textbooks, virgin birth–or IC as it is commonly known–is human conception that occurs not from sexual contact but as a result of divine intervention. While still controversial among members of the medical community, the concept of virgin birth is widely accepted by the population at large. According to a Newsweek poll last year, 79% of Americans believe that the most famous product of virgin birth, Jesus Christ, was born of Mary without a human father.
Nothing befudles my urban-cracker-Atheist mind more than this, frankly, crazy belief in a super-human son of God who actually lived 2000 years ago. Dude was supposed to be capable of healing the sick and re-animating the dead. He could also last through massive torture only to die in three hours, and then, return to life and fly up to heaven, like Superman.
Oh yeah, that happened.
I’m not saying that you can’t believe it if you want to–the last thing I’d want to do is tell you what to believe, but don’t tell me or my kids what to believe, either. Your way is no more correct than my way and vice versa, so keep your Goddamn beliefs to yourself and out of our schools.
Schools exist to teach kids how to function in society, not in your God’s universe. Church exists to teach YOUR kids about YOUR God.
Keep your hands off of my soul, you greedy, selfish, single-minded bastards.
Who is worse? Satan, who constantly tempts people with promises of riches if only said people will give their souls to him–or the Christian God, who constantly tempts people with promises of eternal life if only said people will give their souls to Him? (I see no difference between “accepting Jesus as my savior” and giving my soul to God, so cut the semantic argument before you start it.)
Since I don’t believe in an ideal world of riches or paradise, they both seem like scams to me–but hey–believe what you want… but keep it the HELL OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS AND MY FACE.
What am I living for if I don’t believe in an ideal world of riches or paradise?
I’m living for truth, peace and a positive future for this world.
Argue with that, bitch.
