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LA Times Misses Fake US History Tie in To TX Bible Class Bill |
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LA Times Misses Fake US History Tie in To TX Bible Class Bill
Posted by Bruce Wilson at 7:34 PM on April 16, 2007.
Check it out: Chuck and Geena Norris are really into the NCBCPS Bible class
course curriculum.
OK, cool... But, do they know it contains falsified US history ?
Well, before you judge Chuck and Geena too harshly, consider that the LA
Times, which just wrote a story on the Texas bil that's soon coming up for
a vote and would force Texas high schools to offer elective Bible classes,
doesn't seem to know that the course curriculum the Texas bill favors
contains fake US history either. Why hold Chuck and Geena Norris up to a
higher standard than the one set by the LA Times ? The LA Times is a fairly
decent paper, and if it's oblivious, well then ; Chuck and Geena have a
right to be oblivious too !
As Chuck might say ; here's the facts, M'aam. Just the facts.
In an article for the LA Times, LA Times staff writer Lianne Hart covers
the bill, by Texas State legislator Warren Chisum, soon to be voted on by
the Texas state house, that would mandate elective Bible classes in Texas.
Chisum's bill can be viewed as part of a national push for Bible classes in
public schools that was promoted recently by Time Magazine, a push that has
enjoyed the colorful support of martial arts icon Chuck Norris.
But, while the LA Times notes the concern of the Texas Freedom Network over
possible lack of qualifications among teachers who might teach elective
Bible classes should the bill get voted into Texas law, the LA Times missed
the central source of the controversy swirling around the bill ; the fact
that Warren Chisum's bill favors curriculum, from The National Council On
Bible Curriculum In Public Schools, that has been proven to contain fake US
history.
Fake US history ? Well yes. Last March 31, 2007, historian Chris Rodda,
author of Liars For Jesus: The Religious Right's Alternative Version Of
American History, began a multi part analysis of the historical lies,
fabrications, and distortions to be found in the National Council On Bible
Curriculum In Public School ( NCBCPS ) curriculum for Bible classes in
public schools that, according to the NCBCPS is now being used in hundreds
of American public school districts nationwide.
Wrote Rodda, in her kickoff piece for the series:
Three weeks ago I began writing what has now turned into an ongoing
series of pieces on the revisionism of American history by the National
Council On Bible Curriculum In Public Schools (NCBCPS). In the first three
pieces, I took a look at some of the historical revisionism that appears on
the NCBCPS website, as well as the lies used by NCBCPS advisory board
member David Barton to promote the curriculum on his WallBuilders LIVE!
radio program.
When I wrote the first three pieces in this series, I had not yet seen
a copy of the NCBCPS curriculum itself. The delay in getting a copy was due
to what appears to be a deliberate effort on the part of the NCBCPS to
prevent the wrong part of the public from examining this public school
curriculum. As I discovered when I went to the NCBCPS website to order a
copy, there is no direct way to order one. The ordering process seems more
like a screening process, designed to prevent the actual content of the
curriculum from falling into the hands of someone like...ummm...ME.
But, where there's a will there's a way, and I did eventually manage
through other means to obtain a copy.... a quick glance was all it took to
confirm that the printed curriculum contains not only the lies from the
NCBCPS website and David Barton's radio program that I noted in my previous
pieces, but many more -- including six of the misquotes that appear on
Barton's own Unconfirmed Quotations list, among them the infamous James
Madison Ten Commandments misquote. What, exactly, is NCBCPS advisory board
member Barton, whose advice to the readers of his website regarding these
quotes is to "refrain from using them until such time that an original
primary source may be found" advising the NCBCPS on?
Chris Rodda is now into her seventh installment in the ongoing series, each
of which explores various examples of historical revisionism from the
NCBCPS and within the NCBCPS Bible class curriculum:
Previous articles in this series on the National Council On Bible
Curriculum In Public Schools:
The Influence of the Ten Commandments on American Law - According to
the NCBCPS - 4/12/07
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2007/4/12/124914/263
More Historical Revisionism in the NCBCPS Curriculum - 4/5/07
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2007/4/5/135313/6323
Historical Revisionism in the NCBCPS Curriculum - 3/31/07
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2007/3/31/121621/990
Barton Revises History to Promote the National Council On Bible
Curriculum In Public Schools - 3/24/07
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2007/3/24/12519/6564
More Historical Revisionism from the National Council On Bible
Curriculum In Public Schools - 3/18/07
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2007/3/18/22817/0465
Historical Revisionism from the National Council On Bible Curriculum In
Public Schools - 3/10/07
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2007/3/10/111937/740
Now, in the LA Times story, LA Times writer Hart covers a study, by Texas
Freedom Network and Southern Methodist University Bible scholar Mark
Chauncey, that criticizes Bible classes currently taught in 26 Texas high
schools, and Hart also notes Warren Chisum's recent circulation, in the TX
State legislature, of a memo suggesting the Evolution is a Jewish
Kabbalistic conspiracy. Those aspects of the story were previously covered
in detail by Talk To Action.
According to a February 12, 2007 Texas Freedom Network press release:
House Bill 1287 by state Rep. Warren Chisum makes the Bible the
textbook for such courses, an approach favored by the North Carolina-based
National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools (NCBCPS). That
provision would eliminate competition from a nationally marketed textbook
from the Bible Literacy Project, as well as other curricula. The provision
is similar to controversial legislation the NCBCPS helped draft and win
passage for in Georgia last year.
A 2005 analysis of the NCBCPS curriculum, also by Mark Chauncey, that can
be found on the Texas Freedom Network website reveals much that is
controversial about the NCBCPS curriculum. But the worst aspect of the
NCBCPS course curriculum, which rises above religious partisan issues, is
that the curriculum has been proven, through the meticulous and exhaustive
research of historian Chris Rodda, to contain a falsified treatment of
American history.
That's the real story.
Digg!
Tagged as: chuck norris, bible classes, ncbcps, texas
Bruce Wilson writes for Talk To Action, a blog specializing in faith and
politics.
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| User: "Mark K. Bilbo" |
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| Title: Re: LA Times Misses Fake US History Tie in To TX Bible Class Bill |
11 Oct 2007 08:26:09 PM |
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:54:20 -0400, buckeye-elo wrote:
In an article for the LA Times, LA Times staff writer Lianne Hart covers
the bill, by Texas State legislator Warren Chisum, soon to be voted on
by the Texas state house, that would mandate elective Bible classes in
Texas. Chisum's bill can be viewed as part of a national push for Bible
classes in public schools that was promoted recently by Time Magazine, a
push that has enjoyed the colorful support of martial arts icon Chuck
Norris.
What's funny about it is bad as our schools are at teaching just about
anything, one has to wonder just how badly they'll ***** up that bible
thing...
--
Mark K. Bilbo a.a. #1423
EAC Department of Linguistic Subversion
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"You know, I'd get it if people were just looking for a
way to fill the holes. But they want the holes. They wanna
live in the holes. And they go nuts when someone else
pours dirt in their holes.
"Climb out of your holes people!"
- Dr. House, on faith
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