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Passages, mind you, not the book itself.
If they read the whole thing kids might figure out that "Christian Nationalists" are everything Jesus was against.
You could also just go with some of the teachings of Jesus. Like love thy neighbour, that was a pretty big one. Pretty sure he said not to be a judgemental belled too, probably paraphrasing a bit with that one.
Those aren't the values conservatives are talking about
Well then they are not very good Christians
Generally wouldn't consider mass delusion good either way.
When I was a kid I was forced into church and Christian school. I was required to read the Bible every day of the week.
This was how I realized it was all bullshit. I believed fully in God until about age 12 or so, when I completed my first pass of the Bible.
It really is the fastest way to make average intelligence or higher Christians shed their faith.
Thats why they will only memorise a few passages and not actually study it academically.
Yeah, I really think promoting Christianity by leadership living Christian values by example would work. Unfortunately for them their conservative brainrot is really far from Christianity...
To be fair, having a cross as your religious symbol tends to attract a death cult
I live over in Arkansas where they've mandated 12 commandments (and I get to see them every day, working in a school) and let me tell you, they don't have the intended effect, unless the intended effect is driving people further away from Christianity in droves by making a show of forcing it down everyone's throat. So, sure, whatever Texas, breed us some angry atheists in a generation.
edit: We did away with all the woke commandments and added Stand your Ground, Prosperity Gospel, Hungry Kids Are Just Lazy, and Charter Schools as White as Snow
Wait, what are the two that they added?
Worship Thy Leader, and Strength Through Superior Firepower.
Freedom is slavery.
War is peace.
Ignorance is strength.
God is power.
God's lost commandments
(go watch moral orel)
The Table of Commandments has expanded over the years, as new commandments have been found, and also made up.
Maybe the poophole loophole
I read the bible a bit in my youth. Wasn't Christian before, wasn't Christian after. If anything it left me wonder about the sanity of the authors...
Starting with elementary school children is quite literally the fear-mongering indoctrination that the far right always bitches about Democrats doing.
It's always projection.
There's an old saying: "If I owned Hell and Texas, I'd rent out Texas and live in Hell."
It'd be cooler anyway.
No state would ever convict a child. Except maybe Texas.
Still think yall are the land of the free?
I hope the smart kids will pick out the passages that will contradict texas mores.
They taught my child about angels, Moses, and Noah in history class. But there was one question on the review about Mohammed, so you couldn't say they were only teaching Christianity. So aways, I moved the fuck out of that state and my kids are receiving a wonderful education in Connecticut where they teach things like critical thinking and dealing with emotions and that everyone is welcome regardless of race, sex, religion, sexual orientation.
I’m sure that having it assigned in school will make religion cool again for the next generation ;P
Ahhh yes, Genesis 19:33-36, Genesis 38:2, Ezekiel 23:20… lots of classics for the kids to enjoy!
It's Heads-I-Win / Tails-You-Lose with these laws. If you teach too much of the Bible you'll be in just as much trouble as if you teach not enough.
These rules largely exist to dismantle public education. It's far less about The Bible and more about finding excuses to cut funding for useful education and fire teachers who won't robotically repeat whatever the state wants.
Religious people should be put in camps and be deprogrammed from their insane cult.
There's Freedom ...and then there's Texas.
And to think that some of my family firmly and fully believes that Christians are the most persecuted people in the entire country.
"Don't tread on me," said the most privileged class of people ever.
I mean, someone said happy holidays to them instead of merry Christmas one time! How could it possibly get any worse?!
Of course they are super persecuted. Just look at how so many people have a problem with them putting bible studies in public school! No one else suffers like that! /s
Now that they have the Bible in there, we'll have to mandate the Quran next and really pump up the discourse.
Of course it's Texas. It's a shithole state.
Surely not long now, until they add the Book of Trump to the Bible.
Reading about the USA really is incredibly depressing. I just look at news articles like this, and wonder how things ever got so bad.
Our democracy got hacked. You just can't have billionaires and democracy long term
It's not hacked. Our government is working exactly as intended: for the benefit of the owning class and reinforcement of their hierarchical control over society.
Both things can be true. But it was definitely hacked
And by that I mean the democracy part has been manipulated over a long period so a minority has more power than the majority. That's why religious extremists are able to achieve things like this - they're a small group of the population, but the fascist technocrats behind it all like to use their heraldry
But without voter suppression, breaking norms, and stacking the courts, this never would have flown
These problems have been brewing since before we were a country. Turns out you can't make a system that panders to racist slavers without substantial consequences.
The cracks were always there, but it's like global warming. Decades and decades of people ringing the alarm bell and warning signs before things come to the natural conclusion
We're getting real close to the find out part of both issues
It would seem that Texas wants to tell the world what complete backward small minded fucks they are.
I suspect none of those will be Matthew 25:31-46
Of course, yes, Matthew 25:31-46!
Gotta love when people cite chapter and verse of the bibke and expect everyone else to know what the fuck they're referring to.
31 When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 All the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate the people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 He will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.
34 “Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in, 36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
that's nothing compared to Matthew 21:17 tho
To be fair, that one COULD be interpreted as pretty bigoted towards goats.. 😁
Come to think of it, though, that's far from the only time. I guess the drunk and high monks who wrote the bible just really didn't like goats 🤷🏻
Ah yes, cause everything I was forced to do against my will in school totally became cool and fun once I grew up. /s
not legal burn the bible