Christian right wants to mislead Texas schoolchildren

Oh, what fools we Americans must seem to our European cousins!

From the British newspaper The Guardian:

"The Christian right is making a fresh push to force religion onto the school curriculum in Texas with the state's education board about to consider recommendations that children be taught that there would be no United States if it had not been for God.

"Members of a panel of experts appointed by the board to revise the state's history curriculum, who include a Christian fundamentalist preacher who says he is fighting a war for America's moral soul, want lessons to emphasise the part played by Christianity in the founding of the US and that religion is a civic virtue."

There are so many problems in those two paragraphs that I don't know where to begin.

And, of course, I've said it all before, but the religious extremists won't let facts and logic get in the way of their crazed agenda.

First of all, despite their repeating the myth over and over again ad nauseam, the U.S. was not founded as a Christian nation, and many of our most prominent Founding Fathers were Deists, not Christians.

It was with good reason that this nation's founders wrote the "establishment clause" into the First Amendment, which states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." Yes, folks, it says so right there in the U.S. Constitution!

But I guess the Texas school curriculum will ignore that major fact of U.S. history.

Who needs truth, logic, or reason when there are vulnerable children who need to be brainwashed into lockstep?!