There was quite an uproar...

... in world history class today.

What I "learned" today: Christianity is the same as all other religions and you're racist if you wouldn't vote for an athiest president.

For a school system that claims to keep religion out of schools, they sure do a good job of bring it up in every class - I've learned the evolution theory in every single class from English to Chemistry to Psychology to History. Somehow the term "world history" got changed to "world religions - as long as it doesn't shine any light on Christianity". You think it's a hint when you're required to write an essay on the contrubitions of Muslims to society one day and the corruption of the Pope the next?

So today, we had a class discussion: Why should there be separation of church and state? Of course, the first person to speak brings up the whole "rights" thing - we're given the right of separation of church and state. Actually, that's a lie. Find it for me in the Constitution. You won't. The idea was first proposed by Andrews (or Jefferson?) in a letter to a Quaker during the founding of Maryland who was concerned about having to practice Catholic rituals (holla, Countering Culture Sunday School) - we just ran with the idea for fear of "offending others" and finding ourselves in a law suit.

So a few more people go to speak, and the general concensus is that there should be separation of church and state to have equality. I said that in theory, government and religion shouldn't be separated - the bible teaches that God should be in every aspect of your life. Oh my. I said the "G" word in school. That gets everyone going. "What if I don't believe in God?" Well... you asked for my opinion, did you not?

So then we got onto the topic of Barack Obama winning and what would happen if he was Muslim. He wouldn't have been voted in. That's a given - I think we can all agree on that; America just won't do it. So the next question: would you vote for an athiest president? I said I didn't think Christians as a whole would - and since America is predominantely Christian, they wouldn't be voted into office. I want someone in office with my same beliefs, my same values, my same morals.

And that's when my teacher stepped in and said that all religions are the same - all religions have the same basic morals. And that's when the class stepped in and called me racist - we're not talking about skin color you're born with, we're talking about a chosen belief system. And that's where a profound athiest called me out for being a hypocrite because I, and other Christians, don't follow all the laws in the Bible, and she made references to Levitical Laws. I told her those were Levitical Laws, Old Testament, before Jesus; in the Christian faith most of those aren't viable anymore... because that's not a long conversation or anything...

I think it's interesting that we can sit there all day and badger about equal rights and such, but the minute a Christian starts to defend his or her faith, they're called arrogant, narrow-minded, pushy, hypocritical...

2 Timothy 3:12.