Hobby Lobby: Moses Had a Magic Wand
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Hobby Lobby is a nationwide chain of retail stores that offers merchandise for the home, including a wealth of Christian religious claptrap. Note that “Christian” is emphasized because Hobby Lobby doesn’t sell items favored by any other religious cults. The owner of Hobby Lobby is a dedicated religious fundamentalist who cares only about his “god” and little about people, a trait quite common in Christians.
As one might expect the fanatic religious, and there are an uncomfortable lot of them, refuse to accept contraception or abortion for any reason. Hobby Lobby itself has been leading the fight to prevent ObamaCare from covering contraception and Planned Parenthood issues and at this writing the issue is waiting a ruling from the Supreme Court, which consists of a majority of conservative catholics.
Unfortunately for the sane among us, and even the reasonable religious, of which there are many, Hobby Lobby makes a lot of money and they use it to spread the “word” through the “bible” the handbook for Christians everywhere. While the bible contains mostly insane scribblings of ancient desert dwellers it also contains a few common sense platitudes, which the religious like to interpret to serve their own agenda, and that’s what Hobby Lobby does.
From Raw Story:
A pair of religious liberty watchdogs urged an Oklahoma school district to drop its plans to implement a Bible-based curriculum designed by a conservative Christian business owner.
Americans United for Separation of Church and State and the Freedom from Religion Foundation sent letters last week to the Mustang Public School District board expressing concerns about the implementation of the “Museum of the Bible” curriculum.
The groups, which are based in Washington, D.C., and Madison, Wisc., said the course work designed by Hobby Lobby owner Steve Green was taught from a sectarian perspective and would expose the district to costly, time-consuming lawsuits.
“The courts have been clear: there is to be no proselytization in public schools,” said the Rev. Barry W. Lynn, executive director of Americans United. “Schools are welcome to teach religion objectively, but they’re not welcome to teach any one religion as literal truth. That’s exactly what the Mustang public schools are about to do.”
Americans United noted that Green, who has mounted a U.S. Supreme Court challenge to the birth control mandate in the Affordable Care Act, explained that the curriculum was intended to show the reliability of the Bible and to complement his planned Bible museum.
Green has also said the class would teach the doctrine of Bible inerrancy, the groups said, which they said undermined his claims that the course would be taught from an objective standpoint.
“The materials show a clear Christian bias, treat the Bible as historically accurate and true in all respects, and make theological claims, to name but a few problems,” said FFRF staff attorney Andrew Seidel.
The attorney lists dozens of potential constitutional violations in the curriculum, although he admits there are likely more because he sent the letter before conducting a thorough examination of the materials.
Seidel said the curriculum asks and answers the question, “What is God like?” and asks students to consider the various aspects of God, including His love, promise, justice, and presence.
He also noted that only four translations of the Bible are used, each of them associated with Protestant sects, and treats the material as historically factual and accurate – including the questionable claim that Moses wrote the Book of Genesis and critical examination of the fictional novel “The Da Vinci Code.”
“The book assumes all the stories to be true, going so far as to list biblical artifacts yet to be discovered including: Noah’s Ark, the Ark of the Covenant, the Holy Grail, and
Moses’ magic wand,” Seidel said.
The course also teaches that constitutional principles, including freedom of the press, were based on biblical teachings.
“This book reads like a Sunday school lesson for elementary schoolchildren, not a legitimate public high school text,” Seidel said.
Both groups urged the school district to cancel the elective curriculum, which was approved for next fall.
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Yep. I got a million of ’em. I could write a whole comic opera about Noah alone if I had the inclination – something to make Wagner jealous including the “Elohim” seducing women and filling the earth with Sons of God who needed to be exterminated by drowning even though you’d think the Sonsagod would be smart enough to find something to float on. There’s almost too much material.
Moses had a magic wand
Jesus had a bat
Krishna had a tennis racket
Confucius wore a hat
It’s all true, I know it’s true
Get on your knees and pray
The Holy Ghost eats Texas Toast
I’ll believe whatever you say
I went to a conference this weekend. I belong to an organization that teaches navigation and boating safety and while trying to concentrate on what the lecturer was saying – some pretty technical stuff – a Christian Bible group in the next conference room began to sing. Most of what made it through the wailing wall was a relentless drum beat at about two per second and I found, although it wasn’t loud at all, it made it totally impossible to think or concentrate. I think I’ve discovered their power to ‘stupidify’ the listener. Enough of that and you’ll lose the power to think at all and you’ll believe whatever they say.
Noah’s ark? Of course and also Noah’s airplanes that ferried the penguins to Antarctica and the Kangaroos to Australia and the polar bears to Greenland. . . I’ll believe whatever they say but of course reject what anyone else says because in the absence of any evidence whatever, only one hypothesis can be true, right? I mean, that makes sense as long as the drum keeps beating.
LOL LOL! Perfect Glenn and I love that little ditty. An original? 🙂
Jesus Christ Superstore????? Really????? It’s kind of impressive in a stupid way don’t you think?
What did anyone expect? Honesty and fairness from the religious rascals? Never has happened, never will happen.
I’m learning to hate these crazies more and more each day and I will NEVER go into another Hobby Lobby again!
What scares me Jess is we shouldn’t even be having this discussion. What kind of country, beyond those nutty Islam places, can force schools to teach religious mythology? It’s fucking crazy!
You have heard about all the uproar in England right? So there are a few schools in one of the districts there I forget if it is Birmirham(sp) that extremists have been invited to speak at the schools. Not only that but they have started segregating the girls and boys there and some of the boys go around telling girls they have to wear head coverings even if they are not Muslim. What the school heads is that what you call the superintendent there. anyway the school head people are getting rid of regular teachers and admin and putting in crazy extremists for religious stuff. there was a story over Easter said some boys in groups were going around busting up chocolate eggs kids had brought in for their little friends because Jesus Christian stuff. They had to have big gubbmint come in and start investigations to rid themselves of these people. The Subway sandwich places over the pond have had to get rid of bacon and pork products off their menus. I am sure when Norman sees my reply he can add more to it because my take is an outsider just reading the stories at the Guardian or Mail online places.
It’s my understanding that the Muslim community is having an impact on normal life in the UK. The Brits aren’t like us, and won’t tolerate such shit for long. Like you I would like to hear Norman’s take on this Jess.
Many people don’t know that Hobby Lobby also invests in companies that make the slut pills. They are ok taking money by way of investments in pills but they don’t want anyone knowing about it and they want to stop people from taking it. Wait won’t that cut into their bottom line, they never thunked that one through I bet. Moses was the Harry Potter of his day then. I’m down with that because Harry has been a favorite of mine since I was a junior in high school.
Are we turning back the clock? In the very early days the majority of learned people were religious and most universities were supported by churches. That is the reason that religion is so pervasive today. Unfortunately, the same systems generated arrogant, wealthy people who care only for themselves who rarely ever practice what they preach.
Bill that’s a good point. America isn’t moving forward, we are moving backward.
Oh, but Moses DID have a magic wand! Remember, it was the fact that he doubted its magic nests and tapped a stone when he asked for water that denied him entrance into the “promised land”. See, there are things one can learn from the Bible. Really there are. And anyone who doesn’t believe that is just a doo-doo head.
I am so tired of Christians or any other religion trying to take over educating! We do have archaeologists who try to confirm different things that are stated in the Bible. For instance, we have discovered that there was a building or Castle dedicated to King David. I suppose that someone could say that that proves that everything about David in the “Old Testament” is true, but the fact that there is multiple evidence of the idols in ancient Jewish homes, does that prove that, in fact, though Bible was not believed or practiced every way in ancient history? I love trying to discover things from ancient books that actually DO get supported by history, but said it into books do more to offer questions and directions for research than anything else. I’m still waiting for someone to find TRUE evidence of Noah’s Ark, but I significantly doubt that any such thing will ever happen. The fact that I don’t believe any of the “stories” that something has been found just supports my view that I tend to have a little more believable expectations!