Georgia Law to Allow 'Biblical Content' To Be Taught In Public Schools

[left-of-center2012]

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has just made the teaching of what is referred to as ‘Biblical content” in public schools law. A group that advocates for the civil rights of non-Christians says that the law is just one “part of Project Blitz, a coordinated attempt by the Religious Right to enshrine Christian nationalism in our schools.”

The law, called SB 83, is supposed to allow public school children to obtain “knowledge of biblical content, characters, poetry, and narratives that are prerequisites to understanding contemporary society and culture, including literature, art, music, mores, oratory, and public policy.”

The legal grounds for the reasoning behind these laws and the resulting classes would be shaky at best:

“The purpose of such courses shall be to accommodate the rights and desires of those teachers and students who wish to teach and study the Old and New Testaments.”

However, there is part of the bill that says that if no state money funds the classes, people connected to the school system in Georgia can teach the Bible as truth if they like.

https://hillreporter.com/georgia-law-to-allow-biblical-content-to-be-taught-in-public-schools-34585

[greymattermom]

1. So I hope they teach

all of the kosher food requirements. Make sure that every Georgia student knows that eating pulled pork is forbidden by the Bible.

[greymattermom]

3. and that all those Georgia whites (aka shrimp)

are sinful.

[uponit7771]

2. Which bible?

[DBoon]

8. Exactly

I bet it won't be the Tanakh or the Roman Catholic Bible.

I would bet it is this version: https://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/conservative-bible-project-aims-rewrite-scripture-counter-perceived-liberal-bias-article-1.431955

[justhanginon]

12. Or the eight pager of my youth!

[Celerity]

4. Project Blitz

a coordinated attempt by the Religious Right to enshrine Christian nationalism in our schools.

They don't even hide their Nazi aspirations

[DBoon]

9. nothing like invoking a pagan teutonic deity

to push your version of christianity

[Celerity]

13. what pagan deity?

blitzkrieg means lightning war

[DBoon]

16. The god of lightening and thunder

Nazis were big on reviving dark ages pagan mythology.

[Celerity]

17. there is no linkage there

Yes some (the SS under Himmler at the fore) were into pagan revivalism, but there is no tie to the name blitzkrieg and that. Hitler hated the name, and it was a press invention mostly, never an official name used by the Nazi generals or leaders themselves for a military concept. Teutonic paganism also had a separate god associated with each of the two things. Donar, ie Thor in old Norse was the thunder god, and Wotan, ie Odin in old Norse, had lightning as a weapon, although for neither Wotan or Odin was lightning a primary association, unlike the archetypal example of the Greek god Zeus, ie Jupiter in Rome.

Despite being common in German and English-language journalism during World War II, the word Blitzkrieg was never used by the Wehrmacht as an official military term, except for propaganda. According to David Reynolds, "Hitler himself called the term Blitzkrieg 'A completely idiotic word' (ein ganz blödsinniges Wort)". Some senior officers, including Kurt Student, Franz Halder and Johann Adolf von Kielmansegg, even disputed the idea that it was a military concept. Kielmansegg asserted that what many regarded as blitzkrieg was nothing more than "ad hoc solutions that simply popped out of the prevailing situation". Student described it as ideas that "naturally emerged from the existing circumstances" as a response to operational challenges. The Wehrmacht never officially adopted it as a concept or doctrine.

[samnsara]

5. time for FFRF to sue....

[SidDithers]

6. Teach it as fiction, with Catcher in the Rye and Macbeth...nt

Sid

[sinkingfeeling]

7. What's the biblical connection to anime? Gun culture?

[LuvNewcastle]

10. When will they have the time to teach the Bible?

When I was in school, we barely had enough time for the real subjects. I suspect they're going to try to fit it in Biology and other science classes and if they do, that shit needs to be shut down. There's enough ignorance out there already, even without teaching fairy tales as fact in our schools.

[gratuitous]

11. Today's lesson, class, is from the Acts of the Apostles

I'm sure you all read the passage from chapter 4, verses 32 through 35. Now, who can tell us what sort of economic system the early apostles practiced? The group held all their property in common, and no one was needy. Compare and contrast that with capitalism, where we have millions and millions of people in poverty.

Oh, that wasn't the biblical content you wanted to be taught?

[sinkingfeeling]

14. Good one.

[yortsed snacilbuper]

15. "To be honest, it's a bit hard to follow."

[DeminPennswoods]

18. might end up a "becareful what you wish for" law

I might have to have a class where students compare and contrast the 10 Commandments and Trump's behavior.

[lindysalsagal]

19. If I were a GA teacher, I'd immediately begin Buddhist dharma until this was rescinded.

Because if it's open season on teachers preaching, they can't stop me.

We'd need all other religions, including islam to follow suit until they cry uncle and figure it out.