In a recent survey, many Americans, especially American Christians, were ignorant of some of the finer points of their religion. This surprises me somewhat. The poll's other finding, that many American Christians are even more ignorant of world religions, does not.
So what is America doing to rectify this problem? After all, wouldn't it be best if we knew more about the views espoused by the people we are fighting in Afghanistan, the people from whom we buy our billions of dollars worth of oil, the people who are building a Community Center almost at Ground Zero? Shouldn't we know about Islam, and for that matter, if our founding fathers meant for this to be a Christian nation with Christina values, shouldn't we know a little bit more about Christianity as well?
Enter Texas. I've had some choice words for Texas in the last few months based on their attempts to construe American history as a triumph of Conservative Christina values. The plans they rolled out for the American History textbooks championed the views of Phyllis Schlafly, "“It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.”
Those textbook makers now want to exclude Islam from Texans' education. Rather than understand the views of the radical Muslims we're fighting in the "war on terror," the beliefes of those constructing a "Mosque" (what goes on in those things?) in the vicinity of Ground Zero, and perhaps just understanding the views of 1/6 of the world's population, Texas wants to...dumb us down. Why bother understanding? We're right, they're wrong. It's that easy. Enough with the over-Islamization of our history, this is America, a good Christian country. Problem is, we don't know what it means to be Christian either.
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