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Re:Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters orders Bible taught ... by jollofricepeas on Friday June 28, 2024 @09:34AM (#40820490)
To be fair.

They said teach the Bible NOT Christianity.

We should most definitely teach the Bible in its historical context starting with:

- the genocide of indigenous peoples particularly the California Genocide from 1846-1873

- slavery and corporate interests (160?-1865)

- manifest destiny

- lynching in a Christian country (1860-1950)

- the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

- civil rights movement (1950-1968)

- the Catholic Church sex abuse scandals

- Christian Zionism, corporate interests and apartheid in the Middle East

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Re:Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters orders Bible taught ... by TeaBrain on Friday June 28, 2024 @11:12AM (#40821438)
Some of what you listed might be appropriate if the class were a Christianity focused social studies class. By teaching the bible, they would be meaning the teaching of the text of the bible. I'd assume this would be more like a literature class where only the overall text and passages are evaluated, not the influence of the text on other people.

That said, this is very arguably a violation of the establishment clause.

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Re:Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters orders Bible taught ... by yawpitch on Saturday June 29, 2024 @02:35AM (#40828294)
They’re not actually interested in teaching the text of the Bible, too much incest and rape and incestuous rape for the young minds to bear.
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Re:Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters orders Bible taught ... by krapp on Friday June 28, 2024 @10:05AM (#40820724)
If you really want to be fair, they said "teach from the Bible," not teach about the Bible.
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Re:Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters orders Bible taught ... by noworriesnate on Friday June 28, 2024 @10:24AM (#40820892)
This is a good list, but why start there? We should start with the genocides in the Bible itself. There are so many, it's hard to pick just one, but I think my favorite is where David, a man after God's own heart, killed all the males in Edom. Who said that feminism has no place in the church? /s
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Re:Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters orders Bible taught ... by jollofricepeas on Friday June 28, 2024 @12:08PM (#40822066)
Good point.

Seems like a good place to start to answer…

“How did genocide and murder in the Bible influence government and church sanctioned violence in the so called New World?”

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