By Alan Singer
They call it Christian education, but there is not much I identify as “Christian” in these schools. You certainly don’t see the compassion of Christ for the poor, sick, and downtrodden that is portrayed in the Gospel of Luke.
Christian Academies require that their students to read the Bible, but the meaning they impose, literal interpretations that deny evolution and claim some people are destined for servitude because they are descended from Noah’s cursed son Ham, are restrictive and racist. Every Christian is not a racist, but the academies, in effect, become training grounds for the next generation of rightwing ideologues and white nationalists. Enrollment in these “schools” has expanded as they push a rightwing agenda, rallying people to oppose “Critical Race Theory,” the latest code phrase for denying the history of the United States and African American rights, and vaccination and mask mandates. Unfortunately, there is fertile ground for a rightwing revivalist movement in the United States where spokespeople like Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) announce they do not believe in evolution and a 2019 Gallup poll found that 40% of Americans still believe the biblical story of Genesis that on the sixth day of the universe God invented human beings in a separate creation.
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Source: Daily Kos