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issued this memo today requiring teachers in all schools to keep a Bible in their classroom and teach from it as a historical document.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)
Ok class today’s lesson is on the Jubilee, in which all debts were forgiven after 7 years.
Next week, how rich people suck ass and can’t get into heaven.
"And here in Exodus 21:22-23 we learn that if someone punches a pregnant woman and she dies, the attacker is to be executed, taking "a life for a life"; but if she only miscarries, the penalty is only a fine.
Anyway, back to our lesson about Roe v. Wade..."
A *free* pregnant woman. Same section of Exodus makes clear it has no interest in whether a pregnant slave woman miscarries and precious little interest in protecting any slaves from attacks.
This is one of the under appreciated attractions of the Bible for the confederate crowd.
@slacktivistfred.bsky.social has been explaining how the roots of modern American evangelicalism come from its part in slavery and subsequent racist response to civil rights for decades.
