Christian Right, Pat Robertson and Other Scary Stories

Yes. So this REALLY ticked me off. I got an email from the American Family Association which said:

The Kentucky Board of Education has voted to take the first step in redefining how America dates time. The board voted to include a new secular system of dating the calendar, BCE (Before Common Era) and CE (Common Era), and added it to the BC (Before Christ) and AD (Anno Domini, Latin for "in the year of our Lord") method.

The new secular system of time dating will appear in the curriculum and other materials used by Kentucky educators. This new system is already being included in textbooks across the nation.

The new method will replace the birth of Christ as the dividing point in history. For example, the new system would change 2006 AD (Anno Domini) to 2006 CE (Common Era).

It also opens the door for the ACLU to find a liberal activist judge who will forcefully remove the use of BC and AD. The ACLU types will claim that the use of BC and AD are a violation of the First Amendment because it dates history based on the birth of Christ.

So let's all just FREAK out about it, create havoc by introducing LEGISLATION to insure that authors are FORCED to write BC/AD in their VERY OWN BOOKS. I'm really starting to hate the Christian Right more and more. As far as I could find, the ACLU has not tried to forcefully remove the use of BC/AD as these guys would have us all believe. Punks. This isn't a salvational issue. Its not even a moral issue. Its crap, thats what it is. A childish fight, where both sides look more and more like complete fools.

I really hate many of their suped-up hyped up frantic emails, freaking out good little Christians into believing that our government is becoming Christ-Killers and pro-Atheism and anti-Christianity, even when most of them are Christians themselves, good solid church goers.

And so it was that Pat Robertson proclaimed that the little town in what was it, Ohio? anyway, that this town were nothing but godless and atheists when they decided to not teach creationism in their science class but rather teach creationism in a whole seperate classroom, devoted to the creationism vs. atheist positions. On NPR one of the board of directors for the school district said, "We have a church on every street, and each one of us on the board are strong Christians." Robertson was ready to send them to hell. Oh, he also is the one who asked for the assination of a South American President (was it Venezulian?) and who had an affair on his wife in the mid-90s. Bastard.