Burnt Orange Report

Did I sleep through this

By Nathan Nance

Guest post by Nate Nance

It seems like I woke up the other day to find out we now live in a theocracy instead of a democracy. This is insane. We have a judge walking around with the Ten Commandments printed on his robe, we have people trying to get creationism into biology textbooks and we have other people who want to put parental advisory stickers next to any mention of evolution.

We even have people who refuse to say "Happy Holidays" because there is no mention of Jesus. Instead, they say "Merry Christmas", like there aren't other holidays going on this month or anything.

I've really had it with people like this. I'm a very patient person, but this. Ahhh! You would think people would want to send their kids to school to become educated, but these people seriously seem to want to indoctrinate their kids into this religion, even between Sundays. I don't even really think of them as Christians anymore; it's more like a strange cult that wants people to believe the world really is flat and thunder is God spilling a sack of potatoes.

I don't know how to handle stuff like this short of having a licensed therapist talk to these people and explain that the world is not a giant snowglobe on the back of a tortoise. You might think I'm getting their beliefs all mixed up, but that's the point. We're talking about science textbooks and the rule of law and they are talking about superstitions and judges that think the Ten Commandments are the guide book to our laws. I really don't want my kids growing up in a place where superstition is valued above science and pleasing the church is more important than rule of law.

This is a guest post by Nathan Nance. Nate is a sports/news clerk at the Waco Tribune-Herald and writer/editor of Common Sense a Texas-based Democratic Web log. He can be reached at nate_nance@yahoo.com.