Chuck Norris sucks up to Christianity

If you're anything like me, you're sick and tired of those stupid Chuck Norris jokes.  Maybe I don't get it because I have a vagina functional brain.

I am also sick of Norris' support of the intelligent design movement. Apparently it's supposed to be amusing that he wants to tattoo "in god we trust" on the foreheads of every atheist. I am going to have to thank Skeptoid for publishing this as part of their "Ten Most Wanted: Celebrities Who Promote Harmful Pseudoscience" podcast. Chuck Norris is a flaming creationist:

Chuck Norris' main offense is his frequent public appeals to teach a Biblical "alternative" to science in public schools. In a series of public service announcements (here and here), Chuck and his wife advocate the mission of the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools, a nonprofit organization with its own 300 page textbook advocating Young Earth fundamentalism, The Bible in History and Literature. Although Chuck and the Council state that it's legal and has never been legally challenged, this is patently untrue, its having failed every Constitutional challenge brought forth against it. Chuck, become a Sunday School teacher in the church of your choice. You should not use your celebrity status to wage war against religious freedom, or to further erode the quality of science education in the United States.

  Mr Norris apparently thinks the documentary Expelled will

"wake up many people to the truth. What truth? That educational arenas have become limited learning environments because of biases against God, the Bible and creationism."

 Mr. Norris, truth about the world does not revolve around belief. It revolves around observation, experimentation, and rational analysis. I don't have a problem with the Bible being taught in public schools as part of a course on religion (one in which theism and non-theism are both discussed, or as material one can use to critically analyze the difference between scientific claims and nonscientific claims, or in a literature class, or as part of critical thinking curricula, but not if the course is designed around revisionist history, sectarianism, shoddy research, etc.   The Bible should be taught in school, but not by the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools using a textbook that asserts the existence of God and the validity of Christianity, even if subtly.

Incidentally, Evangelicals hate the textbook too, but for entirely different reasons - gasp! It encourages students to think! So maybe it's not all that bad.

Mr. Norris also has said publicly that school shootings and violence are due to atheism and the scientific teachings of evolution by natural selection. Dude. Morality is not dependent on religion. You're undermining science and rational thinking.

Also, make better movies. Thanks.