In Education News...

I caught this report on CNN, home of Wolf Blitzer and The Mole's Anderson Cooper, about a decision by the Staunton, Virginia school board endorsing off-site Bible study for elementary schoolkids during school hours. I, for one, couldn't care less if these kids are playing hookie for God, although I don't think the program's really working that well. According to CNN, the eighty-five percent of kids in the Bible study program tend to ostracize the fifteen percent who don't participate. I searched my Bible, but I can't find the passage where Jesus tells His followers to treat the non-devotees as lepers. Maybe it's in the King James Version...

Anyway, they interviewed one of the moms who can't believe that there are Americans — in Staunton, Virginia, her own community, no less — who believe kids shouldn't be taken out of school for religion classes. She has a theory, wholly unfounded, of course: "I hope they aren't persecuting us because we're Christian."

And with that comment, I can only pray that this self-centered bitch receives a divine beat-down from God. No, Lady, they're not persecuting you because you're Christian. They're not persecuting you, period. You and your crazy, pseudo-victimized Christian friends make up an overwhelming majority of the population; there's absolutely nowhere in America where Christians are persecuted. If you want to see some real persecution, why don't you head down to Kosovo or Saudi Arabia or Tamil Nadu in India. Or better yet, spend a week as a Muslim in America. Try getting through airport security, then complain about the opposition to your Bible study.