[Bring] the Bible in its essential historical and literary context to Oklahoma classrooms
I don’t know what America’s founding documents have to do with the context of ~300 AD (or whenever Christian texts were first organized into the New Testament). But I can’t think of many places whose founding would be more offensive to Jesus’s teachings than Oklahoma.
The whole south would be about the biggest possible fuck you to Jesus.
And if he ever came back i doubt he’d live to see trial much less his legal execution.
Bet the televangelists who demanded his death would be so upset they’d need to buy new private jets to get over it
The South is like 30% black — majority black where I live — and the black churches organize around civil rights and charity. Jamelle Bouie recently noted that his religion professor once said, “In the black church tradition, Christians worship a Jesus who has been lynched. In the white church tradition, Christians worship a Jesus who could be forgiven for lynching"
I’m personally secular but actually living in the South, it’s more complex than election maps make it seem. People doing work in Georgia against the odds flipped it blue.
And you know what? They literally founded the southern baptist convention because the national triennial convention wasn’t pro-slavery or racist enough, they needed Christianity to be pro-slavery racist first and foremost because it was their only true core moral value, and I haven’t seen that change one whit.
Hitler wrote explicitly about Jim Crow in the south as a model and inspiration for the genetic policies Germany needed.
We have been too gentle for too long, if the south had shown any interest or intention in seeking redemption that would be one thing, they constantly double down in their pride and arrogance and demand others respect their perversion.
It’s gone too far. Georgia in 2020 was not something we can rely on to keep our secular democracy. If they had shown an ounce of contrition in 160 years, but they aren’t capable of that because they’re incapable of imagining ever being wrong about anything.
Southerner here. It’s this kind of carte blanche thinking that had left the liberals and progressives of the South fighting an uphill battle. When the major party most aligned with our values throws up their hands and withdraws all support, we are left only with our metropolitan counties trying to lead by example, however flawed we may be. I want to help my rural statesmen get the help they need so that they’re above water long enough to realize the true opponent, the 1% aka the new age plantation owners. But when we only have 2-3 counties per state trying to stem the tide while weathering the onerous rulings of a gerrymandered state legislator, it’s slow going. I almost left once, but that’s accepting defeat. I’m not leaving this country if we take a significant rightward turn, because I’ll lose any ability to right the ship. Same goes for the South.
From a Blueberry in a Raspberry pie, with love.
A grift in broad daylight.
The “requirements”:
- a Bible that is bound by leather or material like leather
- has the Pledge of Allegiance, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights
- is the New King James version of the Old and New Testament
- has no commentary
Is there a known beforehand contractor to provide these with a markup? I guess there’s a shade of a simple local grift too.
has the Pledge of Allegiance, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights
Why does a bible need these things?
I’m in sales and have seen the strategy discussed where if you’re trying to sell a product to an institution with a formal bidding process to coach your contact to draw up requirements which only your product can meet.
Conservatives want a collection of things they won’t read or ban. This sums it up.
They’re putting these in schools to try to tear down the separation of church and state.
It fits two purposes:
- grift for Trump payments with state funds
- keeping kids dumb so they stay republican later
Because Trump’s version has these things
That still doesn’t explain it
What don’t you get? 🙃
It’s a way to funnel public money directly to Trump and his campaign.
The rules are written explicitly to cater to Trump’s edition so they will be forced to buy only Trump’s edition. Meaning they can now fund Trump’s nazi grift using Oklahoma taxpayer funds legally.
The school boards are run by republicans
Trump’s qualify because they are naked political graft and not a religious document?
