It's amazing -- the power of the vote. It turns out that by a simple vote, you can do things normally thought not possible. Some years ago, the town of Dover voted God out of their city, at least according to Pat Robertson. Now, the Texas School Board, by a count of 10-5, has voted Thomas Jefferson out of history:
There's a second punch-line to this joke. Not only does the Board want to get rid of Jefferson, but it wants history books to read that the inspiration for America came more from the likes of John Calvin and Thomas Aquinas rather than those secular enlightenment guys. Aquinas was a smart enough guy, but here's what he had to say about religious freedom:
With regard to heretics two points must be observed: one, on their own side; the other, on the side of the Church. On their own side there is the sin, whereby they deserve not only to be separated from the Church by excommunication, but also to be severed from the world by death. For it is a much graver matter to corrupt the faith which quickens the soul, than to forge money, which supports temporal life. Wherefore if forgers of money and other evil-doers are forthwith condemned to death by the secular authority, much more reason is there for heretics, as soon as they are convicted of heresy, to be not only excommunicated but even put to death.
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Thank God that History has finally vindicated Joseph McCarthy, that guy was really swell.
When I first read the proposal a few weeks ago I was looking the "The Onion" heading at the top of the page.
"There were no historians, sociologists or economists consulted at the meetings, though some members of the conservative bloc held themselves out as experts on certain topics." Experts on being bat shit crazy.
"If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say this or that even, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death."
- George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 3
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