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issued this memo today requiring teachers in all schools to keep a Bible in their classroom and teach from it as a historical document.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.
And on the shmita, Where after 49 years all land is given back to its original owner. Which is why next year Lakota will be a required language course.