Damned Christians

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Largest Christian university in US faces record fine after federal probe into alleged deception

The country’s largest Christian university is being fined $37.7 million by the federal government amid accusations that it misled students about the cost of its graduate programs.

Grand Canyon University, which has more than 100,000 students, mostly in online programs, faces the largest fine of its kind ever issued by the U.S. Education Department.

"GCU’s lies harmed students, broke their trust and led to unexpectedly high levels of student debt,” said Richard Cordray, chief operating officer for Federal Student Aid, an office in the Education Department. “Today, we are holding GCU accountable for its actions, protecting students and taxpayers, and upholding the integrity of the federal student aid programs.”

https://news.yahoo.com/largest-christian...33160.html

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Jerry Falwell Jr. candidly admits that his late father, Jerry Falwell, Sr., founded the university solely to be an institutional arm of the Republican Party and not to be a Christian university aimed at spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ.

In fact, Falwell Jr. is slamming his brother, current Liberty Chancellor Jonathan Falwell, for trying to actually run it like a legitimate Christian educational institution rather than a front for training hardcore culture warriors.

As if that weren't enough, Falwell Jr. said his brother was blowing it by surrounding himself with too many honest people.

In an interview with Axios, Alberta said that Fallwell Jr.'s criticisms "will rock the Liberty community to its core — not just because he's antagonizing his brother, but because he's speaking difficult truths about Jerry Sr. and America's leading Christian university that have long been strategically concealed."

https://www.rawstory.com/jerry-falwell-jr-2666333522/

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A documentary on Christian Nationalists

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James Carville explains that Christian Nationalism is fascism using a Bible

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Satanists unmask Christians again and show that they think how the U.S. is a Christian nation, not a secular one.

An Iowa fight over a Satanic display reminds us: Republicans believe "free speech" is only for them

It's become a holiday tradition, especially in the red states. Every year, in response to overtly Christian displays put up in government buildings, the Satanic Temple petitions to set up a display honoring Lucifer in state capitols. They usually succeed. See, the Supreme Court long ago created a loophole in the First Amendment to allow religious displays, by arguing that as long as every group gets to have one, it doesn't violate the "no establishment of religion" clause. By putting up altars to Satan next to the annual nativity scenes, the Satanic Temple makes their point about the silliness of this loophole.

More important, however, is the trolling part. Every year, Christian conservatives discover the Satanic display and have a loud, public temper tantrum about it. In this, Satanists prove their point: Conservatives claim to respect religious plurality, but it's a lie. The overt religious iconography on government property was always about promoting the Christian nationalist view that theirs is the only "real" American religion.

It's hardened into a ritual because both sides get something out of it. The fundamentalists get a chance to freak out and use this as evidence for their lurid conspiracy theories claiming demonic forces are out to get them. The Satanists and their fans get a chance to remind everyone that Republicans are hypocrites who never really believed all that "free speech" talk. This year, the annual rite is playing out in Iowa, where the Satanists have antagonized the Christians with a goat's head wreath in the Des Moines capitol building.

https://www.salon.com/2023/12/12/an-iowa...-for-them/

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Oh no, YEC Christians are just a minority. Only evil atheists like Dawkins and Hitchens pay attention to them.

Well... fuck you!

How Mike Johnson Helped Open The Door To Creationism In Louisiana Public Schools

The House speaker is known for his work as a Christian-right operative. This is how he became the "legal go-to guy" to put creationism into public schools.

Johnson has a long history of supporting and promoting creationist causes, acting as a lawyer for the Creation Museum and Ark Encounter in Kentucky where dinosaurs are seen as passengers on a re-creation of Noah’s Ark. But perhaps most important is his key role as a lawyer for the religious-right forces in Louisiana, which successfully passed legislation enabling teachers to inject creationism into public school classrooms and aided his rise to become speaker of the House.

When the law faced challenges to its implementation and schools faced lawsuits for teaching creationism, Johnson, who worked as a senior litigator for the Alliance Defending Freedom and sat on the Louisiana Family Forum’s attorneys resources council, was the one to swoop in with legal memos, letters threatening lawsuits, and prayer rallies on behalf of the religious-right groups opposed to secular education.

Johnson’s role defending creationism in Louisiana public schools emerged in the late 2000s. Louisiana, one of the most religious states in the country, had long been a focal point in fights over creationism when, in 2008, the state passed the Louisiana Science Education Act, which enabled teachers to use supplemental materials to counter evolution with creationist "theories" in science classes. It was part of a larger strategy built over years of public back-and-forth about how much religion was to be permitted in schools.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-john...24b4342739

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitzmiller...l_District

The speaker should review this.

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Satanists unmask Christians again and show that they think how the U.S. is a Christian nation, not a secular one.

An Iowa fight over a Satanic display reminds us: Republicans believe "free speech" is only for them

The most persecuted religion strikes again: The satanic display has been vandalized.

https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/conser...he-satanic

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Meet David Wernsman, Kidnapped and Beaten at 17 for Being Gay
His parents sent him to a school in the Dominican Republic run by U.S. Christians who beat and humiliated him.

If you haven’t heard of the industry, it’s largely owned and operated by conservative Christians who deny mental-health science and work to “convert” LGBTQ youth into being cisgender or straight. They claim to be able to cure “delinquency,” drug addiction, alcoholism, depression, “defiance,” and even panic attacks.

The movement’s boot camps, ranches, outdoor-adventure programs, and boarding schools have long been dogged by complaints of brutality and ineffectiveness. Despite that, the industry receives billions of public dollars to “treat” teens whose only crime was not conforming with their parents’ religious beliefs. The American Bar Association estimated that the industry received about 23 billion USD in 2021 alone. Those are your taxpayer dollars if you live in the U.S.

https://medium.com/prismnpen/meet-david-...edc0aeb1af

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Religious groups argue for right to hire, fire staff based on sexuality

The Minns government has been warned that attempting to stop religious schools from hiring or firing staff because of their adherence to “Christian ethos”, including sexuality, would be a breach of religious freedoms.

Religious groups including Catholic Schools NSW, Christian Schools Australia and the Presbyterian Church all argue that existing exemptions within the state’s Anti-Discrimination Act which allow private schools to discriminate on the basis of sexuality, marital status or gender should be retained because of their religious views.

The demands from religious organisations to keep the exemptions in place signal a looming test for the Minns government as it seeks to balance their concerns with a push from key crossbench MP Alex Greenwich to prevent gay students and teachers from being expelled or fired by religious schools on the basis of their sexuality.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw/reli...5evmt.html