You have mistakenly judged my motives in calling me Euro-centric and even "racist" because I advocate the dominance of European Christian culture and history in our public schools. It is neither race nor ethnocentricism that are the central motives of such advocacy, but the desire to transmit Christian culture and history to our Christian Children. Almost 90% of Americans are from a Christian background and have a right to have their tax money spent on educating their children in their own cultural values. In La. it is well over 95%.
European civilization and Christianity are essentially synonomous terms and cannot be separated. Whether we like it or not, Christianity spread from its Jewish beginnings in the Middle East to European North Africa and Europe but was rejected, for the most part, in Africa, Asia and India. Until recent centries, Christianity was almost unknown in Africa, India, and the far East, and that despite many efforts at evangelization throughout the centries. In the last century or so we have seen significant inroads in these places.
The history of Europe is the history of Christianity. The two cannot be separated. For almost 2000 years the Art, social mores, Architecture, morals, music, in short the overal culture of Europe was based on the Bible. (The American Culture is only an extension of the Christian culture of Europe. Nine of the first thirteen states had exclusively Christian constitutions.) It is the Bible and the Christian themes that gave European civilization its greatness.
The Greeks, the Romans, the Iberians, the Celts and later the Germanic, Russian and Anglo-Saxons were all converted to Christianity.
The primitive Europeans worshipped many false gods before the Jewish Apostles and disciples introduced Jesus--the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The culture of prechristian Europe was a culture of paganism and barbarism.
After their conversion to Christ, the Europeans, as a society, rejected their false Gods and pagan culture and established their morals and ethics on the biblical standards and the Ten Commandments. It is true that their were elements of paganism that survived, but the Christian virtues and spirit clearly overwhelmed the darkness of these elements.
It is not the primitive and original indigenous pagan culture of Europe that should be taught in our Schools but the glorious and in a sense holy Christian culture that was established on Jesus.
Christian children are cultural and socially naked without the great Christian music, the great Christian art, the great Christian architecture, the great Christian lieterature of Christian Europe.
This generation of parents and government officials have stripped our children of their Christian heritage. To deprive Christian children of their Christian heritage is a form cultural and spiritual genocide.
Now to the point of teaching the primitive values of the pagan cultures of Africa, China, India etc. on an equal footing with European Christain Culture. We should have courses to introduce our children to these false cultures but why should we exalt these false and dark cutlures on the same footing as the glorious and spiritual culture of Christianity?
It is this Christian culture that holds the universal and eternal Standards of Weights and Measures---the Holy Bible.
I hope this explanation helps you understand my political stand on concentrating on Christian European culture and history rather than giving equal time to a multitude of pagan nonchristian cultures.
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