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reading the bible made me aware that 100% of all american christians aren't following jesus's teachings and way of life, and more follow the biblical satanic ideology
You just gotta love how these Christians, always ready to show the world their virtue signalling, always ready to paint themselves as the best people that people can be, also always cheat and fraud to get ahead and get their religion shoved down the throats of little children, and you always have to be thankful that that's all they try to shove down your own child's throat.
Fuck everything about religions in general, but Christianity specifically
"Your religion is like a penis. It's fine if you have one, as long as you don't try to shove it down my kids' throats."
In school we only did their creation myth. There were so many other myths in the world that we didn't have time to learn the whole thing.
If they read it and comprehend how crazy it is, how Christians pick and choose what they follow, and the discrepancies and inconsistencies in it. Sure. Let it backfire on them.
We had a super Christian lady in my first job, always smiling and happy and telling us how gods got a plan for us all. I tried reading the bible to see if I could get some of that blessed happiness. In the first 10 minutes of reading god makes everything, sees its shit, spakes "whoopeth" and fireballs everyone to ash and starts again.
Thats the being they truly believe is in charge of everything and they're happy. Scares the shit out of me.
That is what I was thinking. They consistently pick out extremely short peices of passages to quote. In context, most would push people away from religion. Maybe other states should force kids to read the entire bible. That would cure todays youth of any religous intentions.
I’d have no problem with that were it done critically, comparative to “christians”, and analytically. Dissecting the Bible would create a lot more atheists.
But we know that’s not what they want. The talibangelicals want unquestioned dogma.
My great great aunt forced me to read the Bible. I am now a half feral Neo-Pagan, hail Odin fuck that trash, Jesus is kinda chill and Sampson gets overlooked too frequently.
Yeah Jesus was chill. The issue is the other half of the bible and also that people who force others to read it usually don't even follow what Jesus taught so whatever.
Yep, honestly I'm kinda surprised that there doesn't seem to be any major Christian sects who said fuck it and either cut out or simplified the old testament kinda like what Islam did or at least better separate it all out.
Yeah, there are many variations but it's taboo enough that the closest to a major sect I can think of is that Catholics have additional books.
But fun fact, one of the founding fathers (I think Ben Franklen) made a very short version that took out all the history or magic and just left being the laws and rules to follow
You're thinking of Thomas Jefferson
I think that was Jefferson?
Ask very innocently: which version.
it's always the KJB, or some later evangelical even more bastardized version of the KJB
That's a great point. They may want to nail down exactly which version is the correct one, to avoid any issues...
So you mean the state will make a decision about ...dogma?
I feel like texas is doing this because the people just aren't going to church anymore
Coming soon to all 50 states. We are one Insurrection Act away from Gilead.
I'm pretty sure if there is a hell the god bothers outnumber the devil worshipers.
You WILL get on board with pastoral expansion
Maybe someone should hint them on the ... interesting ... bits. Things their boring preacher usually leaves out. Song of Salomon, Lot's daughters, etc.
hell, even just the sermon on the mount. lotta holier than thou capitalists hate reading that one
all of Ecclesiastes too, basically about how $ is evil and corrupts everything iirc
Honestly, at this point I'd be happy if American children were capable of reading anything.
Separation🤣of🤣church🤣and🤣state🤣
I don’t necessarily have a problem with this, so long as the lessons aren’t dictated to be from a religious perspective. I think the Bible and the Quran make sense as required reading as historical works. They’re tremendously important cultural and historical documents. As long as they’re taught from that perspective, I don’t have a problem with them being required reading texts.
The problem starts when they’re being required as texts to legitimize the religions they’re associated with. Then, you’ve got the state supporting some religions over others or no religion at all.
actually examining all the contradictions in this stuff is a great way to build critical thinking skills. but actually reading the bible is something most of the fundy types really have a hard time with, their religions as a whole have been built around unquestioning top-down pushed faith for so long that (ime) they almost seemed scared to actually think for themselves
This is the shit hole south.
Of COURSE they're going through turn it into a fucking 5 day Sunday school session. Ripe for indoctrination and they cannot even leave
My favorite is the story of Sampson. Who has magic hair.
And a mean woman cuts it off after he was post nut sleeping and then he was turned into a slave.
But over time his magic hair grew back and then he killed all the haters.
Also reading the Bible will
That's what solidified it for me.
I was forced to actually read the bible in school. It successfully converted me to atheism.
To be fair, the story of the three daughters that get their geriatric father drunk and repeatedly gang rape him until they are all pregnant was particularly enlightening.
Same but the priest was actively telling us which chapter to read and which to jump. I never remembered which to jump or read so i just read everything, and i became an atheist... My mother kept telling me that to ask the priest when noting anomalies or having questions. The priest finally told me that the bible was written by humains so it doesn't have to be read exactly and is full of mistakes. My great mother told my mother that if you don't teach the bible properly you become an atheist like me... I think she mean that the priest not hitting me when asking question was a mistake XD
I prefer when a man calls bears to kill all the first sons in a village because he was called bald.
Average druid behavior.
Totally normal reaction though, how dare they? He was not bald, he was temporarily optimizing for vitamin d production.
The Song of Solomon is also pretty well naughty.
Lotsa porny sex talk in that.
The only people that think it’s a good idea are people who’ve never read the Bible.
Song of Solomon is no substitute for proper sex education.
Even if it is “enlightening”
That's so blatant a constitutional violation we might not get a 6-3 ruling on it.
I've experienced reciting the pledge of allegiance and the lords prayer.
It's all indoctrination