Part of me says bring it on. So many atheists are created by the simple act of reading the Bible, instead of having it selectively spoonfed to you. You're like "talking snakes and 500 year old men? Nah."
Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters issued this memo today requiring teachers in all schools to keep a Bible in their classroom and teach from it as a historical document. (Via KOCO 5 News)
My father was a Mass every day fellow until my mother convinced him to sit down and read the actual book. I will always admire him for changing his mind.
As Thomas Paine said, "Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the word of God"
What if a teacher just decides to read a bunch of the crazy ass Old Testament. “Did you kids know king David murdered 200 hundred men, cut of their foreskins and traded them to Saul for his daughter?”
Even if you choose to consider this as an opportunity for iconoclasm and skepticism (a take I would seriously question) you have to consider what the classmates and also teachers of the bright kid you imagine will do to them, if they express a word of that in the classroom.
Absolutely true for me. Read the bible cover to cover as a teen and decided any religion that was based on the bible was completely insane. And the god of the the bible is an insane megalomaniac
