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Texas students could soon be forced to read from the Bible in public schools
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2026
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To be honest, my junior year English teacher forced us to read the bible "to have a stronger basis for understanding western literature" and it had zero impact on my lack of religious beliefs. Literally, we spent like 2 or 3 months on that crap. Looking back it was a pretty obvious scam by her, but it had zero impact in the direction that she wanted it to have impact.
I can get the cultural relevance, but between world history, the enlightenment, and American revolution, Christianity is basically covered in history class already. Not to mention the exposure from society at large.
Like maybe have a religious studies elective if you're really feeling it. Requirement is crazy though, and it's not like reading the bible is about to convert any kids as you experienced.
The more I think about it, I feel like meaningful study of anything biblical is past high school level to begin with.