North Dakota Bills promote Christian Nationalist Agenda and declare the “Kingship of Jesus Christ”
A series of bills introduced in the North Dakota House are gaining national attention. They have the potential to impact the Pagan and polytheist community not only within the state but also across the US should the spirit of these might be replicated elsewhere creating a residing tide of Christian Nationalist bills in other jurisdictions.
Rep. Jeff Hoverson of Minot introduced House Bill 1145, which would mandate the display of the Ten Commandments in classrooms across public schools and colleges in North Dakota. During a House Judiciary hearing on January 15, 2025, supporters and opponents presented testimony on the bill. The bill states “The state board of higher education shall display the ten commandments in each classroom on the campus of each state educational institution under its control and administration.” It would affect both primary, secondary, and post-secondary educational institutions.
A second bill on intelligent design will have a hearing this afternoon, Wednesday, Feb. 12. The bill would require K-12 schools to teach “intelligent design”—the belief that an intelligent entity designed the universe and created all life—as part of science education.
Senate Bill 2355 directs the state Department of Public Instruction (DPI) to develop materials and training to present intelligent design as “a viable scientific theory for the creation of all life forms” within the state’s science content standards.
The bill’s sponsors include House Majority Leader Mike Lefor, R-Dickinson, and Senate Majority Leader David Hogue, R-Minot, both of whom cited their Christian faith as a reason for supporting the measure.
A third bill, House Concurrent Resolution No 3020, states, calls the citizens of North Dakota to “acknowledge the Kingship of Jesus Christ over all the world so that this
great state may at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace, and harmony.”
https://wildhunt.org/2025/02/north-dakot...hrist.html
A series of bills introduced in the North Dakota House are gaining national attention. They have the potential to impact the Pagan and polytheist community not only within the state but also across the US should the spirit of these might be replicated elsewhere creating a residing tide of Christian Nationalist bills in other jurisdictions.
Rep. Jeff Hoverson of Minot introduced House Bill 1145, which would mandate the display of the Ten Commandments in classrooms across public schools and colleges in North Dakota. During a House Judiciary hearing on January 15, 2025, supporters and opponents presented testimony on the bill. The bill states “The state board of higher education shall display the ten commandments in each classroom on the campus of each state educational institution under its control and administration.” It would affect both primary, secondary, and post-secondary educational institutions.
A second bill on intelligent design will have a hearing this afternoon, Wednesday, Feb. 12. The bill would require K-12 schools to teach “intelligent design”—the belief that an intelligent entity designed the universe and created all life—as part of science education.
Senate Bill 2355 directs the state Department of Public Instruction (DPI) to develop materials and training to present intelligent design as “a viable scientific theory for the creation of all life forms” within the state’s science content standards.
The bill’s sponsors include House Majority Leader Mike Lefor, R-Dickinson, and Senate Majority Leader David Hogue, R-Minot, both of whom cited their Christian faith as a reason for supporting the measure.
A third bill, House Concurrent Resolution No 3020, states, calls the citizens of North Dakota to “acknowledge the Kingship of Jesus Christ over all the world so that this
great state may at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace, and harmony.”
https://wildhunt.org/2025/02/north-dakot...hrist.html
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
