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Taxpayers are funding private school tuition. It's helping classical Christian schools expand
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Midnight slrpnk.net Midnight@slrpnk.net
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Hominine lemmy.world Hominine@lemmy.world
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Saw the source on AP this morning and yeah, it got my blood going just about as quickly as the coffee.

Conservatives are banding together to leverage these expanding taxpayer-funded scholarships. Last year, ACCS formed a coalition with some powerful conservative groups, including Turning Point Education and the Heritage Foundation. Their goal is to convert or create 5,000 new classical Christian schools in the next decade with 1.5 million students nationwide.

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Ariselas piefed.ca Ariselas@piefed.ca
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Yep, in Canada too, we're getting all kinds of far right and christian schools in Alberta thanks to the UCP

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CIA_chatbot lemmy.world CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world
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Saw the source on AP this morning and yeah, it got my blood going just about as quickly as the coffee. Conservatives are banding together to leverage these expanding taxpayer-funded scholarships. Last year, ACCS formed a coalition with some powerful conservative groups, including Turning Point Education and the Heritage Foundation. Their goal is to convert or create 5,000 new classical Christia...

Looks like it’s time to start some satanic temple schools boys!

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Rhynoplaz Moderator Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world
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Looks like it’s time to start some satanic temple schools boys!

Oh man, were going to have the BEST sports mascots!

"This Friday, the Townville Tigers take on the Azazel Academy Leviathans!"

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taiyang lemmy.world taiyang@lemmy.world
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God, that picture is creepier than everything I've seen all October. Really suits the depressing article.

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dumnezero piefed.social dumnezero@piefed.social
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Madrassas

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MrSulu lemmy.ml MrSulu@lemmy.ml
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That picture certainly has a strong Aryan look about it.

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darthsundhaft piefed.social darthsundhaft@piefed.social
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No wonder the kids are turning to AI. Asking God for help to learn from the quaks that teach at these schools clearly doesn't do anything for them.

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YragNitram1956 feddit.uk YragNitram1956@feddit.uk
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Saw the source on AP this morning and yeah, it got my blood going just about as quickly as the coffee. Conservatives are banding together to leverage these expanding taxpayer-funded scholarships. Last year, ACCS formed a coalition with some powerful conservative groups, including Turning Point Education and the Heritage Foundation. Their goal is to convert or create 5,000 new classical Christia...

I am a reasonable man and am certain that the holy book Bible is an absolute heap of disgusting, slavery condoning, male infant genital mutilation demanding, repellent, demented, vicious dark age mumbo jumbo. Christians should be told quite clearly that our citizens have the legal right to criticise, lampoon, ridicule and mock god and Jesus to their heart's content, in any way that they wish: that Christians have no special claim to protection from the rough and tumble of post-Enlightenment intellectual, political and social life. If they cannot live in a society in which this is the case, they should go somewhere else; they are, after all, spoilt for choice, at least in theory. I do not believe in leprechauns, pixies, ghosts, werewolves, jujus, angels, Tooth Faeries, Odin, Thor, Zeus, Ra, Brahma, Athena, Hera, Poseidon, Yahweh, Allah, or the Trinity, demons, devils, Astrology, the Tarot, Satan. For the same reason in every case: there is not the tiniest shred of 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐨𝐟 empirical, π₯𝐨𝐠𝐒𝐜𝐚π₯, 𝐑𝐒𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐒𝐜𝐚π₯, 𝐨𝐫 πœπ¨π«π«π¨π›π¨π«πšπ­π’π§π  𝐞𝐯𝐒𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐑𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐒𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 any 𝐆𝐨𝐝 and the burden of proof rests with those who wish to believe. Even given no evidence for specific gods, we could make a case for some unspecified "intelligent designer" or "prime mover" or begetter of "something rather than nothing"?
By far the most appealing version of this argument is the biological one - living things do present a powerful illusion of design. But that is the very version that Darwin destroyed. Any theist who appeals to "design" of living creatures simply betrays his ignorance of biology. Go away and read a book. And any theist who appeals to biblical β€œevidence” betrays ignorance of biblical scholarship. The burden of proof rests with those who wish to believe. Even given no evidence for specific gods, could 'his ignorance of modern scholarship. Go away and read another book. As for the cosmological argument, whose God goes under names such as Prime Mover or First cause, again no evidence. Because physicists are closing in, with spell-binding results. Even if there remain unanswered questions - where do the fundamental laws and constants of physics come from? Obviously, that cannot help to postulate a designer whose existence poses bigger questions than he purports to solve. If science fails, our best hope is to build a better science. The answer will lie neither in theology nor - its exact equivalent - reading tea leaves. In any case, it is a fatuously illogical jump from deistic Unmoved Mover to Christian Trinity, with the Son being tortured and murdered because the Father, for all his omniscience and omnipotence, could not think of a better way to forgive "sin". Equally unconvincing are those who believe because it comforts them (why should truth be consoling?) or because it "feels right". The wife of a former UK prime minister may stand for the” feels right” brigade. She based her belief on β€œan understanding of something that her head cannot explain but my heart knows to be true.” She aspired to become a judge! My’lud, I cannot provide the evidence you require. My head cannot explain why, but my heart knows it to be true. Why is religion immune to the critical standards we apply not just in our courts of law, but in every other life?” Richard Dawkins

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