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2024-06-28 Olde Tyme Religion

Oklahoma superintendent orders all schools must teach the Bible and have a copy in every classroom

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-06-28 00:27|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [166 views ] Top

#1 It is a historical document of Western Civilization whether you like it or not. Now which version did the Superintendent mean. O.o

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-06-28 07:56|| 2024-06-28 07:56|| Front Page Top

#2 I would propose the freely available Gideon Bible.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-06-28 08:47|| 2024-06-28 08:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Expecting a district judge somewhere in the USA to overturn this any moment now ...

Posted by Gromble+Dribble4342 2024-06-28 10:15|| 2024-06-28 10:15|| Front Page Top

#4 The Bible is a historical document? You mean a serpent really did convince Eve to eat fruit from the forbidden tree?

Posted by jpal 2024-06-28 11:13|| 2024-06-28 11:13|| Front Page Top

#5 ...it is historical in its impact upon Western Civ. As much as one may despise the Roman Church, it was the one thing holding together what was the West in the post Roman era till around the Treaty of Westphalia. Even Luther started the translation process into local languages.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-06-28 11:31|| 2024-06-28 11:31|| Front Page Top

#6 So it's historical because believers fought wars over it and the different interpretations of it.

Posted by jpal 2024-06-28 11:59|| 2024-06-28 11:59|| Front Page Top

So it's historical because believers fought wars over it and the different interpretations of it.

History is just the result of all the wars fought to date and survivor's/victor's notions about each other. Doesn't matter if they were "believers" or otherwise, just that they were left standing after the most recent war ended. "They killed God at Magdeburg" - line from the movie "The Last Valley"

Posted by Gromble+Dribble4342 2024-06-28 12:11|| 2024-06-28 12:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Abu's tribe had abandoned its bible
But neighbors soon held a revival
On top of the tell
Where his god used to dwell,
For their force was of course more reliable. ;-)

Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2024-06-28 13:20|| 2024-06-28 13:20|| Front Page Top

#9 Oops. ~~Abu's~~ jpal's

Posted by Pancho Poodle8452 2024-06-28 13:22|| 2024-06-28 13:22|| Front Page Top

#10 You mean a serpent really did convince Eve to eat fruit from the forbidden tree?

Crazy isn't it? Getting her to choose a place to eat.

-hides under the desk-

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-06-28 15:37|| 2024-06-28 15:37|| Front Page Top

#11 So it's historical because believers fought wars over it and the different interpretations of it.

You mean like the 20th Century godless Marxists? One hundred million and they're still racking up the count. Given they still imbue or teach that dogma in our universities, its fitting to put something counter to it.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-06-28 15:54|| 2024-06-28 15:54|| Front Page Top

#12 You mean a serpent really did convince Eve to eat fruit from the forbidden tree?

Consider the Bible as a major work of Western Civilization’s great literature, jpal, like Shakespeare and Aesop’s Fables and the Robin Hood tales, that give us common images and phrases. Whether or not one believes the stories themselves — and nobody will argue that Romeo and Juliet or The Mouse and the Lion are historically true — they provide a useful common shorthand and illuminate a common understanding of how people work.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-06-28 16:09|| 2024-06-28 16:09|| Front Page Top

#13 #6 It is historical if analysed in combination with other sources.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-06-28 16:30|| 2024-06-28 16:30|| Front Page Top

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