"We want the Bible in our schools" -- Ryan Walters, Oklahoma superintendent of public instruction

[Swede]

These fucks just won't stop.

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[JohnSJ]

1. Which bible would that be? and what would the SC do if that case came before them

I’m

[Mr.Bill]

13. The current Supreme Court

would probably write a decision making it mandatory in all 50 states.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

28. This genocidal wanker needs to be careful what he wishes for

Because if he and his other traitorous trash want to insert their delusion into public schools, then the government gets to insert reality into their churches.

Hope you enjoy having your membership whittle to near-nothingness after a few classes on evolution and big bang theory.

[MagickMuffin]

2. Only if all religious beliefs are equally distributed, otherwise NO WAY

There are plenty of schools available that allow the bible to be taught.

Stay away from public schools. It won’t have the effect that you think it will!

[we can do it]

33. No religion in school, period.

[pandr32]

3. As long as it is for a "Western Religions" class...

and also offers Eastern Religions to round things out. Maybe one semester for each.

[Torchlight]

4. And I want science textbooks in the church pews.

Six of one, half a dozen of the other.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

6. This!!!

[gratuitous]

5. Who is the "us" in "our schools," Ryan?

Have you received positive feedback on that proposition from Hindu, Muslim, Atheist families? Not to mention the Christian families who don't want their practice of religion tangled up with the state because they know what that inevitably leads to, and it's not good.

[Act_of_Reparation]

29. White people.

And not cool white people with a sense of humor and great taste in music (you know, like me). I think he means the "I'm going to eat a whole box of saltines and listen to some Michael Bolton" kind of white people.

[Johonny]

7. He wants to go back to the dark ages?

[Hugh_Lebowski]

9. Or modern day Afghanistan, Iran, KSA, etc (nt)

[lpbk2713]

8. Who the eff is "we"?

The vocal minority.

[roamer65]

10. I want the State of Sequoyah.

[plcdude]

11. He is

An ignorant assw**** and this is the superintendent of public education. We need to call for his resignation for being a dumbs***.

[Ocelot II]

12. Teach it in high school as a compilation of ancient middle-eastern folklore.

Compare and contrast it to other old religious texts like the Koran, the Rig-Veda, the Zend-Avesta and the Bhagavad-Gita (there are many others). Add some of the texts that didn't make it into the Bible, like the Apocrypha and the Pseudepigrapha, then throw in the Book of Mormon. I'd have no problem with including the Bible in a comparative religion course, where students could discover that evangelical Christianity isn't the only game in town - but that would never fly in Oklahoma.

[SCantiGOP]

14. Our schools

are not your church.

[republianmushroom]

15. Huh, they want pron in their schools as defined by the state of Utah.

[maxsolomon]

16. Fine. Comparative Religions class is the appropriate venue.

Now, if you want to teach the ethics of the Bible, then teach their commonality with other religious texts.

The Golden Rule and the Sermon on the Mount aren't singular thoughts no one else ever had.

[The Magistrate]

17. This Fella Only Thinks He Wants Kids Reading The Bible, Sir

No better way to make an infidel....

[czarjak]

18. The Book of Mormon is subtitled "Another Testament of Jesus Christ" for a reason. Ask Mitt.

[Initech]

19. No we don't! Get your fucking church out of our schools NOW, fuckheads!

[Norbert]

20. Okay but no King James Bible

It isn't the Bible I grew up with and one I would want my kids to read.

[NowISeetheLight]

21. I Hate These Guys

I'm a fairly friendly person. I don't say "I Hate You" much. But I really hate these guys. They want to turn America into a Christo-Fascist Theocracy. Totally against what the founding fathers intended. Freedom of Religion must also mean Freedom FROM religion. If you want the Bible in your schools, kids can bring one in their book bag. No law against that. I googled "Small Travel Bible for Sale" and found the KJV Economy New Testament and Psalms for $2.00 online. It's 2 3/4" by 4 1/2". Have at it.

As for religion in school. Which one? I've read there are over 4,000 different religions in the world. In America another article I read said there are SEVEN main religions in America. Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and unaffiliated including atheists and agnostics. But each of those have offshoots. Christianity encompasses everything from Pentecostal to Catholic to Mormonism to Southern Baptist to Protestant to Methodist to others. We all know they sure don't agree on much.

As for the Bible in school. Which one? Over the centuries it has been rewritten, translated, reinterpreted, revised and updated. We also must remember it was written by MEN not God or Jesus or the Holy Ghost. It has contradictions in different books and passages. How do you explain those to kids? After all... if you're going to "teach" the Bible to school kids you need to teach them EVERYTHING. If not you're just a hypocrite... oh wait, you ARE a Repubqcan.

[jmowreader]

22. This could backfire quickly

"Children, we have a special guest with us today, Superintendent of Public Education Ryan Walters. He wants to sit in on our Bible study. Please turn to 1 Samuel 18. Now why do you think King Saul made David kill 100 Philistines and cut their dicks off?"

"Ms. Jones, it was so David could marry Michal."

"Do you think there was another reason?"

"Yes, ma'am. King Saul didn't like David very much and wanted him to get killed."

"And why would he have been killed?"

"Because no one wants his dick cut off for no reason."

"Exactly right. He thought someone would kill David before David could cut his dick off."

"Dammit, quit teaching such filth!"

"Superintendent Walters, I'm just teaching what's in the Bible. Read it yourself!"

(Walters reads the Scripture.)

"Damn...it does say that, doesn't it? No no, teach a nice part of the Bible."

"Okay, fine. Turn to Judges 15.16. In this passage Samson bragged about killing a thousand men with the jawbone of an ass. Where would he get the jawbone of an ass?"

"From a Republican superintendent of public instruction?"

"Yeah, pretty much."

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

26. Have them read Genesis 19

Where Lot's daughters get tired of being locked away with no chance of marriage, so they ply their drunkard father with alcohol and hump him to have kids by him.

Or Ezekiel 23:20 with the part about lovers with wangs the size of donkeys.

Or, well, any part of Song of Solomon.

Or, if you want to scare the crap out of the little sprogs, read them 2 Kings 2:23-25, where a bear mauls 42 kids to death for making fun of a bald guy.

And that's only touching the surface of the obscenity that is the big book of bad ideas.

[jmowreader]

32. There are a BUNCH of questionable things in the Bible

Let's see...

God whacks Uzzah for keeping the Ark of the Covenant from falling out of an ox cart.

God whacks Onan for refusing to impregnate his dead brother's wife so she could say the kid was his dead brother's.

Solomon threatening to settle a custody dispute by cutting a baby in half.

The very precise instructions for performing an abortion.

"Thou shalt not kill" in the same book that's full of story ideas for slasher flicks.

And then...Genesis 22. Oh. My. Word. "Then God said, 'take your son, your only son, whom you love - Isaac - and go to the region of Moriah. Sacrifice him there are a burnt offering on a mountain I will show you." WHAT KIND OF INSANE FUCKING SHIT IS THIS?

[no_hypocrisy]

23. Nah. Make your kids put down their phones, and

make them listen to you read the Bible aloud to them every night.

It'll bring your family together and much closer.

Leave the school out of it.

[ExWhoDoesntCare]

27. It doesn't bring families closer togeether

Because it has too much hate and violence in it for that. The misogyny alone is an affront to every woman with a brain.

The best-known result of reading that utterly evil waste of good trees?

Well, it does tend to create atheists. Lots of them.

[Flatrat]

24. I won't think in your church

if you don't pray in my school.

[Duppers]

30. Perfect quote!

[SamKnause]

25. Fuck you !!!

Fuck you imaginary friend.

Why don't you move to a theocratic country ???

This country was not founded on the bible and you are a dangerous liar.

You don't want freedom of religion.

You want to shove your religion on to everybody.

Fuck you !!!

[Greybnk48]

31. I firmly believe that Hogwarts Witchcraft and Wizardry should be taught in all OK

public schools!


Anyone else have something they truly believe should be taught?

[DFW]

34. "We want?" Here's who didn't want:

Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
James Madison

I‘d say their „wants“ take precedence in this case.

[Hotler]

35. Home school your little bastards.

[dalton99a]

36. How else are they going to learn about dicks and boobs?

https://www.salon.com/2015/04/06/the_8_kinkiest_passages_of_the_bible_partner/