It does not seem to be very Christian

I have not blogged for nearly a week – for no particular reason – I just did not feel like blogging and had nothing particular to say.

I don’t talk about religion much any more because it is a pointless exercise - but PK brought this to my attention.

I find it fascinating – as I do all requests for intervention from God by sports people and teams – because if they are asking God to help them win – by definition they must be asking God to make the other person or team lose.

This does not strike me as being very Christian - and I have never seen a satisfactory explanation for it.

Sure I pray that I will be able beat Lenny at chess – but I also pray for him – just not quite as much. Lately we have been neck and neck so I might cut down the amount of prayer going his way.

But in the instance of the Texas school – there is really nothing surprising about this at all. 

There are regular battles within the Texas Board of Education to try to get Creationism taught in schools (Rick Perry thinks it already is).

Texas is also where the Republican Party platform states:

“Knowledge-Based Education – We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.”

I am not making this up. The Washington Post article is here.

People like me have little to fear from religion – but I worry a lot about the ignorant nutters in political parties who have the power to subvert education because of their own crazy beliefs.

We had our first snow here yesterday. I did not get a photo so have given you one of Stadtpark in Spring. (Spot the Ducks).