Don't Mess With God or Texas

the question of teaching religion in texas "schools" would disappear if we simply auctioned texas off to the highest bidder. mexico might be interested if they thought that they could survive the significant increase in average ignorance. but the flood of guns would mesh nicely with the mexican drug cartel culture.

fr coloradodog:

>...As a "Gentile" in the 7th grade with high class participation, a positive attitude (then) and a test score average of 96%, I received a B+ for the course because the teacher said, "A gentile boy never could possible understand the history and teachings of the Church"

Had a "teacher" said that to my child, you'd best believe they'd be up before the local school board for being a flipping idiot.

You know, having *been* in Texas, I alwys wanted to answer those 'Don't mess with Texas' stickers with one just like em that said: "But it's so *easy....*" :)

Frankly, if they wanna be 'A Whole Other Country,' they can stop messing with America.

Mr. Rodriguez would like to say that Texas represents the future and where America is going, not the past. I disagree. I would say that Texas represents a clear definition of holding onto the past, and to cultural conditioning. It is the enshrinement of cultural conditioning into the identity self, or Texas everything-is-bigger here Egoism. It is the proving ground that people will believe, and sometimes MUST believe, just about anything that is spun at them.

It is true that the more indoctrinated into false faiths and beliefs, the more one is dependent on that form of false wisdom, the more ignorant that individual is or stays. The better one is educated, particularly in diversity of knowledge as well as belief, the healthier the individual is, and the less dependent on ignorance he is.

Western religions generally are driven by codependency, and have the effect of, if not a direct insistence on, ignorance.

That is why their effect is lack of truth, lying, illusion, and hypocrisy.

Texans in their right minds would not support this movement.

Texas is not a "God friendly state" any more than Iran or Saudi Arabia is. The disease is the assumption of exclusivity, and the spiritual elitism and so Ego that comes with that delusion.

Coloradodog opines:

By no coincidence, Texas is also the Israel of American intolerance, religious ignorance and hatred and Crawford is it's Jerusalem
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While there is considerable hatred of Jews by Muslims throughout the Middle East, I must say that Jerusalem Muslims are not more notably Jew-hating than Muslims anywhere else.

It is true that Egypt, Syria, Tunisia, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, etc., have become all but Judenrien, have deported, forced into exile, tortured and killed Jews who lived within their borders since pre-Islamic times. It is also true that current Jew hatred, sans Jews, permeates the media of these nations.

However, there is actually less Jew hatred in Jerusalem. As for the Jews of Jerusalem, and the rest of Israel, they learn Arabic in their schools. It is Israel's second language.

NOw, speaking of racist terrain, we might discuss Jew hatred in Mexico, Catholic Mexico, where you live. Is Mexico City the Texas of Mexico? Lotsa them christer churches there, no?

Ah, you say, but how could one possibly pinpoint THE racist state of the US? Texas is hardly the only state in which there are Christians.

And, btw., you know, there never was a HOlocaust perpetrated by Muslims against Jews, you know, as Zebra4 notes (although there was mass murder) and, then, where did contemporary Muslim antisemitism come from? Err...Could it have been from the Christians? (duh)

Wow, what a simplistic notion. A state that has big churches is God friendly state! Is Rome then more friendly or less? Is Benares more friendly or less? The fact that I have an alter to Krishna, Siva, Ganesha, Devi.. in my home makes my home more or less god friendly?

I thought god friendliness came in a simple person who devoted their whole life to the inward development of spiritual communion with God. I suppose Texas christians don't need to do that because they have big churches. Perhaps we can teach children in our schools that god friendliness is to be judged by how big a church I can build. That would be objective: $1million, $10 million, oh look they really love god they built a $100 million mosque - those darn saudis.

humbug

hariaum

I grew up in Utah where "Utah History" was "Mormon History" As a "Gentile" in the 7th grade with high class participation, a positive attitude (then) and a test score average of 96%, I received a B+ for the course because the teacher said, "A gentile boy never could possible understand the history and teachings of the Church"

Huckabee teachers of their twisted version of "Christianity" will have a hard time being fair with students they brand as "bed-wetting, gay, Marxist, Commie liberal non-believers"

Texas is a dangerous precedent on Rodriguez's road to theocracy in the US.

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mmmm...Texas.. ok let's see. Isn't Waco in Texas? Wasn't that case last year about some community of Mormons old men marrying 13 old girls in Texas also? Yeah, lets mess with Texas big time.

That TD Jakes, Joel Osten and Ed Young are Apostles!! Man, my tummy hurts of so much laughter... I think this time Mr. Rodriguez really must have drank too mucho of that Texas holy water. How ridiculous claims, how fantabulous alegations, how much more whimsical can this man be. I wonder if Mr. Rodriguez have reach the pinnacle of his ethnical pride with this note or are we going to see more and worst.

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By no coincidence, Texas is also the Israel of American intolerance, religious ignorance and hatred and Crawford is it's Jerusalem

Do mess with Texas. Are we to deny that our Deist/Unitarian Founding Fathers were so christian that not one US official document mentions god/jesus/bible or xianity except the Treaty of Tripoli which states "The US is not in any sense founded on the xian religion". Every attempt to interject jc was overwhelmingly shot down. Our FF were rational theists who were influenced as much by the Enlightenment Era of Deism than xianity. I can't mess with god or the tooth fairy.