theHRguy@lemmy.world to Atheism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoOklahoma is Now Required to Teach Students About the Bible and The Ten Commandments in All Public Schoolsmedium.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up130arrow-down11cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up129arrow-down1external-linkOklahoma is Now Required to Teach Students About the Bible and The Ten Commandments in All Public Schoolsmedium.comtheHRguy@lemmy.world to Atheism@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square5fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2 months agoTo pre-empt the people who say that it’s just going to be straight teaching the Bible and thus teachers should teach lessons about horse semen and the like, supposedly it has to be within the context of how the BIble influenced U.S. history. So instead, they should teach about the Bibles given to slaves with anything about breaking the bonds of slavery removed- https://www.npr.org/2018/12/09/674995075/slave-bible-from-the-1800s-omitted-key-passages-that-could-incite-rebellion Or about how Thomas Jefferson had his own personal edited version of the New Testament that removed all the supernatural stuff- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible Or maybe just Father Coughlin in the 1930s using the BIble to justify Hitler’s antisemitism- https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/personal-story/charles-coughlin Just a few ideas for any Oklahoma teachers.
To pre-empt the people who say that it’s just going to be straight teaching the Bible and thus teachers should teach lessons about horse semen and the like, supposedly it has to be within the context of how the BIble influenced U.S. history.
So instead, they should teach about the Bibles given to slaves with anything about breaking the bonds of slavery removed- https://www.npr.org/2018/12/09/674995075/slave-bible-from-the-1800s-omitted-key-passages-that-could-incite-rebellion
Or about how Thomas Jefferson had his own personal edited version of the New Testament that removed all the supernatural stuff- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible
Or maybe just Father Coughlin in the 1930s using the BIble to justify Hitler’s antisemitism- https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/personal-story/charles-coughlin
Just a few ideas for any Oklahoma teachers.