ACCORDING to The Washington Post:

Christmas and Easter have been stricken from next year’s school calendar in Montgomery County. So have Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashanah.

Montgomery’s Board of Education voted 7 to 1 Tuesday to eliminate references to all religious holidays on the published calendar for 2015-2016, a decision that followed a request from Muslim community leaders to give equal billing to the Muslim holy day of Eid al-Adha.

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Dnr writes:

We live in MD, so this hits home for us.  Although we do not reside in the same county, and by the grace of God, we are now homeschooling our children, I am still outraged by this foolish decision by the Montgomery county school board.  This is just another example of the fallout that comes from loosening our anchor to the once-proud Judeo-Christian heritage of this nation.  The United States of America does not have a foundation in islam – in fact islam represents the exact opposite of what our Founders fought for, lived their lives for, and died for.  Islam is a political system masquerading as a religion that seeks only to oppress, torture, and deny freedoms to those who live under its boot.

Our collective memory of the history of the United States of America has been greatly eroded and undermined, generation upon generation.  Shame on those on the Montgomery county school board who are so cowardly and inept as to further undermine the education of our children for generations to come by not articulating the reason why Christmas, Easter, and Jewish holidays are integral parts of the school calendar and our nation’s history.  I mourn for our nation.

Laura writes:

I certainly share your alarm.

But I hope I won’t offend you by saying that you are not making sense here. How can schools honor both Christianity (including entirely divergent forms of it) and Judaism, given that they are opposed belief systems? Our schools attempt to reconcile the irreconcilable in the religious sphere prepared the way for the inclusion of Islam in the mix.

The Founders believed in political liberation from all established religion. No religion can significantly influence a society over time unless it is embodied in the civil realm.

Terry Morris writes:

Same story, different day.

The article reminds me of Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Virginia in which he discusses his bill for religious freedom as it was debated and passed in the Virginia legislature. When the proposal was made to add the words Jesus Christ to Jefferson’s phrase “holy author of our religion,” so that it should read “Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion,” Jefferson reports it was rejected by a large majority, proving that its mantle of protection was meant to be universal, to include the Jew, the Christian, the Mahometan, Hindoo and the infidel of every denomination.

So our religion is?…

Buck writes:

The school board members are public-school hacks. They start from the dead-end of anything that was American or Christian. They did the best that could be expected of them, which is little to nothing. The one who voted the other way, wanted Islam on the calendar. They had no acceptable choices under the regime in which they exist. They live and operate in a secular realm, as an arm of the secular state. They’re mission is to put increasing distance between the system and religion, especially Christianity; and to maintain the quiet.

Soon, most public school districts ( like Fairfax county across the Potomac)will declare Winter and Spring breaks and simple “no-school days” based on an arbitrary threshold percentage of routine absences, forswearing any relationship with whichever coinciding religious day of observance. We’re too far down the modern liberal road to expect anything but less out of state appendages.

Islam is the only “religion” that appears to have an fighting chance within the state, against the state, as they continue to demonstrate with success. Islam often gets what it wants, one way or another. Unlike a disorganized, internally conflicted religion, Islam knows exactly what it wants and how to go about getting it. It’s simple minded and single minded. There’s not much doctrinal conflict or confusion, as far as we’re concerned. Islam doesn’t conform to the community in order to be embraced by it and to get its vote or membership, it embeds and creates its community with state assistance. Islam doesn’t seperate itself from the state, it incorporates the state.

We increasingly submit to one Islam and increasingly disregard and reject the muddle of divergent, disparate Christian churchs. A sufficient number of our population seems okay with that, or are not bothered enough to actually resist it, even if they understand. Most probably see these kinds of tradeoffs as a good and as fair. Some grumble, but are clueless as to what to do about it. Because, most are modern liberals just trying to get through their day.

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