Not Everyone Believes the Holocaust Happened

An email sent by the principal of Spanish River High in Florida told a mother who was asking about the curriculum for teaching the Holocaust, 

"Not everyone believes the Holocaust happened."  

He followed up later with,  "I can’t say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event because I am not in a position to do so as a school district employee."  He also added that he felt the same about slavery.

He later claimed the emails (note the plural signifying multitiple emails) were hastily written and not very well thought out.  The local school district did not respond to further inquiries by Yahoo.

I am told by the Left that I am supposed to be sensitive and accommodating to those folks of different views on Life.  I am told by many on the Right that facts do not matter.  There are always alternative facts.

Have we gone mad?  Have we decided to collectively take a stupid pill and deny the parts of Reality we do not like?  Sure looks like it to me.

Accommodating stupidity is not something I am at all comfortable with.

Which brings me to my daily whine - Evangelical Christians.  Nobody knows how to warp the truth and re-wrap it into a newer and better Truth than Evangelicals.  Religious zealotry makes it easy.

In an article in The Atlantic titled "The Deepening Crisis in Evangelical Christianity" , Peter Wehner starts off with a quote from Ralph Reed, Faith and Freedom Coalition founder and chairman that reasserts what we heathens are still shaking our heads over. 

"There has never been anyone who has defended us and who has fought for us, who we have loved more than Donald J. Trump. No one!'

The article continues with some of the excuses the Evangelicals are using to cover up and justify their hypocrisy.  Jerry Falwell Jr, a well established Evangelical apple who never even left the Jesus tree said, 

"Conservatives & Christians need to stop electing ‘nice guys.’ They might make great Christian leaders but the United States needs street fighters like @realDonaldTrump at every level of government b/c the liberal fascists Dems are playing for keeps & many Repub leaders are a bunch of wimps!"

Never mind that his reference to Dems as fascists is wrong on so many levels and using commie or socialist would be a better fit, it is obvious that of all the enemies the Evangelicals have to pick from, they consider Liberalism to be the new scourge out to destroy Christianity and allow Satan to rule us as he will.  

Take a moment to consider what that means.  North Korea, Vladimir Putin, Muslim backed terrorism, and even those evil Canadians take a back seat to Liberals in the Christian quiver of things to be afraid of.  Again, Wow!

After a fine synopsis of the current political trend in Evangelical Christianity, Peter Wehner then opens up regarding his own heart felt Christian views and discusses how this trend is doing more damage than good for the Christian movement.  Sacrificing their ethical and moral base for short term political gain will only hurt them in the end.  He reaches out to Karel Coppock, a pastor in the state of Washington who was integral in his "Christian Pilgrimage".  Karel tells him this stunt the Evangelicals are pulling is driving away a whole generation of potential Christians.  

"We’re losing an entire generation. They’re just gone. It’s one of the worst things to happen to the Church."

His concern dovetails nicely with my notion that the leaders in the Christianity network here in the States are shooting themselves in the foot and causing harm to their movement for years to come.  And all because the movement has become a one trick pony concerned not with overall Christian values but centered only on Pro Life and the political power to defeat the evil abortionists.  Their notion that Life is only important while it gestates in the womb really negates all the possibility of good they could be doing by not inserting themselves into the world of politics.  Just look to the Muslim world for how wrong it is for religion and politics to mix.

And people wonder why I hate organized religion.  Organized religion is where taking stupid pills on a weekly basis is not only not frowned upon, but advocated.  

Keep it 'tween the ditches ................................................................