ARE MOLOTOV COCKTAILS OKAY?

Donald Trump and his bumpkin supporters wish to let prayer back into the schools. Never mind that they worship an entirely different deity, and the prayer-in-schools types would be doing that on the taxpayers dime.

The best reason for continuing to forbid prayer in schools is that doing otherwise would force children to aquiesce or participate in heathen practics, idolatrous rituals, damnable heresy, or witchcraft. At which point one would be justified both burning the edifice down and taking the administration to court. BTW: "thou shalt not suffer a witch to live". And by the standards of everyone else, faith healers and fundamentalist preachers are close enough to practitioners of witchcraft that incendiary devices become religiously required. Y'all want to bring prayer back into the schools? Fine. Some of us will bring some other religious traditions back.
We've been itching to do that since the Treaty of Westphalia.
And particularly the Peace of Münster.

I bitterly remember group prayer as an exclusionist practice.
So I do not think kindly of religious types.

An argument could also be made that "Christian" children should not ever be educated. It is a waste of public money to make them fit for any other role than hard manual labour in the coal mines of Apalachia, Mississippi's cotton fields, or farm work in the Central Valley.

Do you want them to become like Karoline Leavitt?
Well, do you? Heaven forfend!

STORM IMPACT

Anyhow, the cardiologist's appointment this morning went very well. My bloodpressure is excellent. And I now have an appointment for ultrasound imaging on my legs (next week) in preparation for a discussion (early October) about angioplasties on the lower extremities, sometime later this year. Probably after follow-up on the full physical with my regular care physician in a few weeks. So I'll be running marathons in no time!

Well, actually, that will very probably not be the case.
But possibly fleeing from the howling mobs.
The world had better be ready.


Better than I was.



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