Farrakhan Attacks Religious Neutrality In Schools
5 August 2008 by Stardust
I just saw this at Americans United for Church and State:
LINK: Farrakhan’s Flub: Nation Of Islam Minister Attacks Religious Neutrality In Schools
According to Minister Louis Farrakhan, church-state separation is responsible for the education problems in America.
Hundreds packed a South Side Chicago church on Sunday to hear Farrakhan, the controversial leader of the Nation of Islam, speak on the “Educational Challenge: A New Paradigm for the 21st Century.” According to the Chicago Sun-Times, community activists and religious leaders met to find solutions for America’s “plighted education system.”
And Farrakhan’s solution? Inject religion into the public schools.
These god botherers will never understand what separation of church and state means.
5 August 2008, on 9:07 pm
Feralkhan is an humongous turd in a bowtie.
5 August 2008, on 10:16 pm
The educational system is dysfuntional which is and the result is certainly and rapidly pulling down America’s standing in the world.
If we don’t need God, Jehovah, The Lord, Jesus, Muhammad, Allah, Budah, Yaweh, etc., we need something to stop this ship from going to hell!
6 August 2008, on 10:39 am
Same hobbyhorses, same whipping boys, same dumb panacaeas. Nothing to see here; move along.
6 August 2008, on 12:00 pm
If we don’t need God, Jehovah, The Lord, Jesus, Muhammad, Allah, Budah, Yaweh, etc., we need something to stop this ship from going to hell!
JB, What we need is a sound academic educational system and get to the real business of educating children instead of all this religion and other bullshit nonsense that gets in the way of teaching and learning. We don’t need gods in the classrooms, we don’t need more religion…we need less of it. We need to make sure that every child has equal opportunity for a good education, better funding and better teachers in the inner cities and lower income communities. We need parents in these communities to be more involved in their children’s educations and to help with homework, etc. We need to pay teachers better in these areas for the work that they do and to attract better teachers to these areas. OOogie booogie sky daddy beliefs do absolutely nothing.
6 August 2008, on 2:33 pm
Stardust is right. I am the father of three boys. The educational situation is this country is a bad joke. Why is it that one has to be rich, lucky or both to get their kids into a decent school? I’m not sure I know the answer but I’d be willing to bet a lot of cash that it has NOTHING to do with the invisible man in the sky or the lack thereof.
6 August 2008, on 6:29 pm
Yeah, cause nothing boosts science scores like an injection of pre/anti-scientific, bronze age mumbo-jumbo.
Statements such as this one from Farakhan, and the fact that so many agree with him, reinforces my belief that nothing kills reason and rational thought faster than religion.