American Taliban
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These people are dangerous and deranged, and need to be crushed:
Oklahoma’s state superintendent on Thursday directed all public schools to teach the Bible, including the Ten Commandments, in an extraordinary move that blurs the lines between religious instruction and public education.
The superintendent, Ryan Walters, who is a Republican, described the Bible as an “indispensable historical and cultural touchstone” and said it must be taught in certain grade levels.
The move comes a week after Louisiana became the first state to mandate that public schools display the Ten Commandments in every classroom, which was quickly challenged in court. The Oklahoma directive could also be challenged and is likely to provoke the latest tangle over the role of religion in public schools, an issue that has increasingly taken on national prominence.
The efforts to bring religious texts into the classroom are part of a growing national movement to create and interpret laws according to a particular conservative Christian worldview.
Meanwhile:
A fair question under the circumstances.
I have a profound intellectual distaste for the sort of scientism pitched by people like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris, which I believe in its own way is as deluded as religious fundamentalism, but I can definitely see how they got that way. And I have no doubts about which form of metaphysical arrogance is a bigger threat to freedom and basic sanity in contemporary America.