Kirk Cameron, he who annoyed his fellow cast members on Growing Pains by making religion so obnoxious behind the scenes that he drove them away from religion as opposed drawing them to it, claimed recently that the pagan religions that predated Christianity had waited until Christianity was established so as to steal its rite and holy days.

Fox and Friends got all upset that President Obama cited a Biblical verse in his speech explaining his Executive Order on immigration. He apparently doesn’t have the right to quote the Bible if it makes the thumpers uncomfortable or it shows clearly that they are not always correct in how they represent religion..

Even though quoting selective and questionably translated Bible verses to support their opposition to people of whom they do not approve and programs they oppose either because it is a principled though warped religious interpretation of scripture, or simply an expedient way to fire up opposition to some things or support of others is their usual approach, they chose in this case to explain that Bible verses are not always exact, but, especially in this case, easily misused.

It’s as if they are realizing their religious claims may not have the strength they would hope, and are resorting to desperation to gain legitimacy.

Now, as another example of the desperation to have their version of Christianity promoted as the only religion for the United States, and the one that trumps all others, Texas has decide that in the next round of textbook revisions, Moses should be included as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America.

Ignoring all other realities, Texas will be teaching its children that the Founding Fathers based the Constitution on the Bible, and our system of democracy was inspired by Moses.

The vote to do this was done by a 10-5 vote of the heavily Republican Texas State Board of Education.

This follows the 2010 decision to have Texas social studies teachers emphasize America’s so called “Christian heritage.”

Because of the number of textbooks purchased by the state of Texas, decisions there influence what is included in textbooks made available to the rest of the country.

Because of the backdoor nature of the discussions that led to this decision, no one who might have some historical expertise was able to have a say or even review proposed changes to textbooks.

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Texas Freedom Network President Kathy Miller issued the following statement the day the textbook decision was made.:
“What we saw today shows very clearly that the process the State Board of Education uses to adopt textbooks is a sham. This board adopted textbooks with numerous late changes that the public had little opportunity to review and comment on and that even board members themselves admitted they had not read. They can’t honestly say they know what’s in these textbooks, which could be in classrooms for a decade.”

TFN also stated that the new textbooks also include passages that suggest Moses influenced the writing of the Constitution and that the roots of democracy can be found in the Old Testament.

Scholars know these statements are inaccurate and subjective.

This move is purely to give the impression that one group of people and one religion had a greater influence than it actually had.

It is not good education, but is, instead, the unfair and incorrect use of power to push a particular agenda, and to present false evidence after the fact to justify the predetermined stance that ours is a Christian nation.

If they have to go to such lengths to improperly teach children, it is pretty good evidence that the claim is wrong.

Moses is not the author of the democracy upon which this republic is formed.

There is actual evidence that much of what influenced the 13 Colonies when drafting the Articles of Confederation that was the basis for the Constitution was actually gleaned from the “Iroquois Confederacy” comprised of the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca and Tuscarora Nations.

It’s Native American Month. Check it out.

But you will note that Moses isn’t going to show up.