Teaching magical creationism is child abuse and it should not be allowed.

To accommodate their god-soaked customers the Wall Street Journal has an article about religion every Friday. It's called "Houses of Worship". This attracts the god morons like decomposing food attracts flies.

The January 19, 2018 "Houses of Worship" is about private schools including religious schools.

"Even ardent opponents of school choice accept that parents have the right to send their children to private schools. That may soon change in New York state, where education officials are preparing new guidelines to impose strict regulations on the instruction that religious and other private schools provide, while empowering local school districts to shutter those schools if they fail to meet state standards."

The WSJ article was against this idea as were the god fucktards who wrote comments there.

I wanted to write this comment:

"Private schools are good thing. They are usually better than public schools. However religious schools often teach anti-science nonsense like magical intelligent design creationism which is a moronic childish fantasy. It's child abuse to teach this stuff."

I did not write that comment or any other comment. The reason is if I did write that then Christian crybabies would harass me nonstop the next 3 days. I never met a Christian who wasn't a stupid fucking asshole.

Idiot America is infested with millions of idiots. We have countless religious schools that teach students (aka victims) how to be stupid and stay that way.

Even worse we have public school science teachers who teach magical creationism and they're getting away with it.

Even worse than that we have states where the government permits the teaching of religious bullshit like creationism in public school science classrooms. This is an obvious violation of the Establishment Clause in our Bill of Rights which requires the separation of church and state. These idiotic state laws would lose in court for sure. Unfortunately the idiots of Idiot America never complain so the students learn nothing about science.

This is from the Guardian which is a UK news website:

US schools ban Darwin from class

Sunday 24 February 2002

A religious campaign to block the teaching of evolutionary biology is taking an inexorable grip on the US.

A survey published in Scientific American reveals that the doctrine of creationism - which holds that the origins of humanity and the Earth are recent and divine - is spreading in the world's greatest technological nation at a disturbing rate. More and more states are restricting the teaching of evolution in schools.

The journal says that a startling 45 per cent of Americans now believe God created life some time in the past 10,000 years, despite research that has established the universe as 13 billion years old and that men and women are descended from apelike ancestors.

Even among US Catholics 40 per cent still insist God created human life a few thousand years ago - even though Pope John Paul II reaffirmed his Church's commitment to the theory of evolution in 1996.

'At the time, newspapers in Mississippi wrote that this proved the Pope was senile and should be ignored,' said Amanda Chesworth, head of the anti-creationist Darwin Day group. 'It is very, very scary. Creationism is spreading further and further. It now has missionaries across the world and even has bases in Russia and Turkey.'

In the past, most attempts to block the teaching of evolution ended in failure, the most famous example being the Scopes trial in 1925. It involved the prosecution of John Scopes for teaching Darwin's theory in his class. He was fined $100, but this was overturned by Tennessee's Supreme Court on a technicality. Yet the state kept its anti-evolution laws on the statute book until 1967.

In 1999 Kansas Board of Education voted to block mention of Darwin in its schools but members were voted out and their anti-evolution policy was reversed.

But creationists have been quietly notching up a series of victories elsewhere. The Scientific American survey by Lawrence Lerner, of California State University, shows that in northern states such as Illinois, Ohio and Wisconsin creationism has taken a powerful grip on education at local level, despite each state's strong liberal tradition. Ohio is considering banning evolution teaching, and even New York and Massachusetts are turning against evolution.

'Creationists use some very effective tactics,' said Chesworth. 'They target small towns and get supporters on important local organisations, in particular boards of education. Then they launch campaigns to demand equal time for their views beside those of evolution. Voters get confused. They don't understand that creationism is a doctrine and is very different from scientific theory. Equating one with the other is simply false. One is science, the other is religious belief.'

Another recent technique has been to promote the argument of 'intelligent design'. Yes, the universe may be very old, say proponents, but everywhere you look you can see clear evidence of the handiwork of a creator. Even bananas are given as evidence of this: convenient for handling, with a tab for wrapper-removal, a pleasing taste, and an obvious skin-blackening sell-by-date mechanism. By contrast, most scientists believe the cosmos is random and unpredictable.

Scientific American believes that the content of textbooks and lesson plans in schools is already being affected by creationism.

Cheswell agrees. 'Our nation went from the Earth to the Moon a few years ago, and discovered these worlds date back billions of years. Now it is sticking its head in the sand, claiming the whole lot was made in a flash a few millennia ago by one entity. They even argue that dinosaurs and humans coexisted, like they do in The Flintstones . That's not healthy.'