The JesusFreak Project: Something Old, Something New

God Bless America, and how the blarney is everyone doing today?

To start off, here's a funny picture:

Now that you're all bellowing with laughter, let's talk about something quite serious:

Social conservatives on the Texas State Board of Education are wishing to limit the mention of Islam in schoolbooks, warning against "a creeping Middle-Eastern influence in the nation's publishing industry". Apparently, a few anti-extraneous someones were slightly perturbed that earlier world history textbooks had mentioned and described Islam beliefs and practices more than Christian beliefs and practices. While this may be a problem of religious prejudice in textbooks, I think it's more likely because Islam actually requires more text to understand than Christianity.

While it is understandable that someone would get a little annoyed at the fact that Islam is mentioned more in an American textbook than Christianity, we have to be wary of people whose only goal is to make everything in our lives have political connotation to it. Then again, we also have to remember that there are some people who live off of the reactions people have to them yelling, "Everybody's out to get us!". These people are called conspiracy theorists. Some of them may have good motives, and what they say may be true...but since I'm leaving this dump we call Earth when I die to live in Heaven for an eternity, I really don't care too much.

My favorite part of this story was this statement in the Texas Board of Education's resolution: "State Board of Education will look to reject future prejudicial social studies submissions that continue to offend Texas law with respect to treatment of the world's major religious groups by significant inequalities of coverage space-wise and by demonizing or lionizing one or more of them over others."

Oh, the Texans...*chuckles*

Does this not directly contradict what the main purpose of this resolution is?

And now for the "something new" part of this post: I think that I will start doing official "Q&A Posts", where I take philosophical questions from my last post and give my best answer. I think I will start doing this tomorrow, so if you have any questions about God, life, or philosophy in general, please comment below and ask!

With kind regards to my fellow inmates in the House of Hormones,

--JesusFreak

P.S. Some more nerdy humor for you all: