Oklahoma orders schools to teach Bible 'immediately'

I have found the bible they are going to teach https://www.amazon.com/Hebrew-Bible-Translation-Commentary-T...

I look forward to the Satanic Temple’s predictable response to this.

Will Christian mythology be taught alongside Greek, Roman, Norse, etc.?

I enjoyed reading the bible when I was a kid. It seemed very real and somehow approachable. Christianty, I think, is a very human-scale religion.

However, note the "teach" in the headline--as if education should be little more than an education beaten into you. Sure, this will help anyone succeed (just follow the asshole in front of you.)

Perhaps they should consider teaching all religions? Or, rather, give students access to all religious texts and teach them about hermeneutics and comparative studies.

The bible as a document is really fascinating from an historical & mythological perspective. Too bad that is probably not what is meant.

This is hot on the heels of this man loosing one case against the Oklahoma Supreme Court.

Ryan Walters recently lost when the highest court in the State ruled that it’s unconstitutional to create a state funded religious charter school.

Not one to obey the law this one - it seems to be the thing with these Christian Nationalists, to embrace the courts when they rule in their favor, then complain, bitch and invariably then ignore when the courts rule against them.

Apparently he saw what Louisiana did, then looked around for someone to hold his beer…

Such a huge waste of time and resources that could be better used to make students actually smarter and better prepared for their lives as adults. This is just hollow virtue signaling that will inevitably be thrown out by the Supreme Court after wasting millions of dollars for nothing.

Cool cool. So we can expect forthwith the hasty inclusion of Locke, Hume, Hobbes, Paine, Voltaire, Spinoza, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Seneca, Cato, et al? I mean... those were all more plainly and specifically influential on the founders than the Christian Bible. I'd be interested to hear specifically what passages they will incorporate and on what basis of relevance to the history of the founding of the US these are chosen, and how they plan to not get lost in the weeds of religious doctrine.

Or is this just another cheap ploy to waste taxpayer money losing another lawsuit to the Satanic Temple?

It's becoming ever more silly & pointless to say as the travesty & ridiculous overreach (of these extremist theocratic/un-democratic) radicals keeps spreading, but like, low key thank you for showing us who you are, for so visibly not caring at all about anyone but yourselves & your particular & strange delusions.

I hope some day we survive (as a free society) to calmer chiller times, and look back & reflect. It feels like theres a total lack of moderation, that this extremism has been growing, and I hope we can survive & not be corralled into a top-down overbearing government that forces a select peoples chosen way of life on everyone.

Isn't this the US, the country of freedom of things like religion? Just asking for a friend.

Up next - evolution is just a "theory", like intelligent design.