Comments on: God and the Texas School Board http://www.harvardichthus.org/fishtank/2010/03/god-and-the-texas-school-board/ Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:20:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: JHM http://www.harvardichthus.org/fishtank/2010/03/god-and-the-texas-school-board/comment-page-1/#comment-1225 JHM Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:48:32 +0000 http://www.harvardichthus.org/?p=2747#comment-1225 Great post. I'm a of the conservative (political and religious) variety and I can understand some of the frustration with attempts in the past to secularize the "Founding Fathers", but there are two problems I have with the kind of stuff they're doing: 1) America was very much founded on the idea of religious freedom (amongst other freedoms of course). I don't see how you can on one hand emphasize that religious freedom and then turn right around and use that history as an evangelistic tool for your particular religious view. 2) It seems to play into a philosophy that whatever religion "owns" the majority of seats on the school board can use it as a platform for launching evangelistic programs (even if mild ones). This not only turns a school board into a religious battle ground but also opens up the possibility that Christians would lose that battle... Great post. I’m a of the conservative (political and religious) variety and I can understand some of the frustration with attempts in the past to secularize the “Founding Fathers”, but there are two problems I have with the kind of stuff they’re doing:

1) America was very much founded on the idea of religious freedom (amongst other freedoms of course). I don’t see how you can on one hand emphasize that religious freedom and then turn right around and use that history as an evangelistic tool for your particular religious view.

2) It seems to play into a philosophy that whatever religion “owns” the majority of seats on the school board can use it as a platform for launching evangelistic programs (even if mild ones). This not only turns a school board into a religious battle ground but also opens up the possibility that Christians would lose that battle…

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