The Stephen Williams Law Suit

The Stephen Williams Law Suit

There is a lot of press locally about a Cupertino teacher, Stephen Williams, who is suing his school district for not letting him express his religious bias in his fifth grade class. His case has even gotten some national press. His contention is that Christianity is part of the history of the United States and he should therefore be allowed to teach about that Christianity.

I would not want my grand children to be taught such information even though one of my grand children is going to a church support school and is indeed learning just doctrine.

I therefore suggest some additional lessons as a test of the sincerity of the interest in historical accuracy.

1. One of the largest churches practices catabolism. That is the church encourages the eating of the flesh and blood of a person. The official dogma of the Catholic Church and the doctrine of some Protestant churches proclaim that the wafers and wine of the Eucharist literally becomes the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ. Participants are therefore eating the flesh and blood of Christ.
2. Almost all sins, murder, rape, adultery, robbery and most others, could be paid for and would be forgiven. The money went to the medieval church, the church that proclaimed that it had a direct line back to Jesus Christ.
3. Many people, especially poor old women, could be possessed by evil and were then burned alive under the sanction of the Catholic Church.

The doctrinal references might also be included as examples of what the church teaches.

1. God chose to punish by an exceptional horrible execution his own son for the sins of other people.
2. One of God’s chosen people, Lot, had sex with his two young daughters and got them both pregnant. The fact that he was dead drunk made it OK. However, because his wife looked back to take one last look at her home town she was turned into a pillar of salt. All of the people in the town, women, children, little babies, were killed by a vengeful God because there was sin in the town.
3. God requires sacrifice of you to prove your love of Him. Abraham was required to kill his first born son to show his love. Abraham was allowed to substitute a lamb at the last moment once he was ready to cut his son’s throat.
4. Even the august Abraham practiced incest by marrying his half sister. Then he claimed she is his sister to save himself and allowed his wife to enter into the harem of the Pharaoh for a generous payment. The great prophet of the Old Testament and revered by Jews, Moslems and Christians would today be called a pimp.

There are many, many more horrific tales in the Christian Bible that are not taught in Sunday School and which are ignored of unknown by most Christians. Neither the doctrine nor the practice of the Christian Church is noble or honorable. To teach children that the belief in Christianity is a good thing is not historically correct. Teaching only selective myths and limited episodes in the name of history is to endanger the intellectual integrity of the students.