This comic was instigated by the inability for American educational leaders to move beyond Christianity and Jesus-centric ideologies and realize that there is a scientific truth overtly apparent to anyone who (without being funded by ExxonMobil) studies or pays attention to the research of our environment, specifically climate. Children are not being allowed to learn about our climate because the religious (not only extremists) portion of the population wish to rather believe that any warming is either due to god's spite or due to natural causes - exonerating both church and state, religion and oil.
It makes for great conversation, yes indeed. But the stark and horrible reality is that at the end of the day millions of children in one of the most guilty regions of the world are going home ignorant of their actions. They are bred to maintain a stance of being unaware that god is neither here to save nor spite them, and that the control of the sustainability of this planet is not a question for debate, but for action. Allowing a foreign and domestic policy to be dictated by a religion is an arcane way of dealing with a country, let alone a country that is one of the roots of the problem.
An atheist approach clearly erases this illusion of godly saving. It puts the onus on us, our way of being, our cultures. It puts the onus on those who wronged to do right - our energy system has worked, but it is now wrong and it is now proving to be more wrong than imaginable - and we need clarity and separation from religion to do so.
So, education is but another puppet of the christian fed politics of America.
And in Canada, the land of "god keep our land, glorious and free", we are not much further ahead in the effort for enlightenment. Less controlled by the bible, but still, as a population, controlled by it. Stand in a classroom and see how long it takes before the christian myth is assumed to be true through the curriculum and conversations.
We are enganging in demonous acts all in the name of a mythical creature (god, jesus, moses, Abraham, ...), of a mythical history, or a fiction novel. We are (well, certainly not me and not in my classrooms) maintaining an unhealthy predisposition to christian based ideologies, which have demonstrably injured all life on Earth.
God....god nothing.
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