Episode 30: The Pope, Condoms, and Christians in Coffee Shops

After a holiday break, Episode 30 is now available, covering:

• Texas Schools Displaying the Ten Commandments
• Pope Approves (Some) Condom Use
• Congressman Shimkus Uses Noah’s Flood to Deny Global Warming
• Christians in Coffee Shops

Hosts: Chris Thielen, Tom Beasley, Robin Marie, Samuel Won, Dalton McGee

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Texas State Congressman Files Bill for School Ten Commandments Display

This is necessary to protect teachers who have the desire to establish that the country’s historical background is based on Judeo-Christian traditions …

This might be a reassuring step to the people that we are wanting to maintain and hold on to those historical findings of how our country was founded …

And anything that helps build the morals of our young people would be helpful. For too long, we’ve forsaken what our Judeo-Christian heritage has been. Our rights do come from God, not from government.

Texas State Congressman Dan Flynn (R) repeating the mistakes of Kansas and demonstrating a mighty powerful understandin’ of politics.

Episode 16 Now Available

Episode 16 of the American Atheist show is now available, featuring new contributor Daniel and a smattering of topics:

* Discussions of naturalism and denialism

* Lars Vilks Attacked During Lecture

* California Moves to Block Textbook Changes

* Nun Demoted for Perfoming Abortion

* Child denied Admission to Religious School for having Gay Parents

And much more. Please let us know what you think of this episode using the comments section, and thanks for listening!

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California Moves to Block Texas Politico-Religious Textbook Alterations

In a follow-up to a story covered some time ago on the podcast, Sen. Leland Yee D-San Francisco has introduced a bill into the California state government to block the controversial changes introduced by Texas a few months ago; Texas notably, due to its size and well-funded public education say, has a great deal of clot when it comes to demanding standards of the national textbook publishers, who themselves save money by selling the same book to multiple states despite varying educational standards.

While this is all good business to the textbook industry, it doesn’t much help the states that don’t agree with Texas’ changes, chief among them the erroneous statement that the American Founding Fathers were largely guided by Christian notions, and that the 1980s saw a conservative resurgence which greatly improved the nation.

The bill would require that the California Board of Education review the textbooks specifically for the changes introduced by Texas, to deem them worthy or not for California students. The article quotes the bill has saying that the Texas changes are specifically “a sharp departure from widely accepted historical teachings” and are “a threat to the apolitical nature of public school governance and academic content standards in California.”