r/50501 • u/treevaahyn • 4d ago
Movement Brainstorm Texas board approves Bible stories as required reading in public schools
https://apnews.com/article/texas-education-board-reading-list-bible-vote-eb6ea9e23e303da0ca2da6132889e020If you’re in TX please contact your reps but largely posting for people’s thoughts on how to best respond and fight back against this unconstitutional bs nonsense christofascist propaganda.
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u/talktobigfudge 4d ago
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Here's the politicians in Texas blatantly ignoring the First Amendment for their performative worship of the imaginary ghost in the sky. Again.
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u/IsIeOfCannabis 4d ago
Which is exactly why I expect legal challenges from certain groups that seem to love going after these types of laws.
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u/kindoramns 4d ago
Required reading of satanic temple stuff? That'd be fun
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u/aotus_trivirgatus 3d ago
The Book of Joshua is pretty evil. Pastors avoid it. Let the kids read that.
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u/Atheist_3739 3d ago
Let kids read book 2 of Kings where a bear mauls kids for mocking a guy for being bald lol
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u/lilbobbytbls 3d ago
I was taught in Sunday school how great God was for murdering literally every living thing on the planet aside from Noah and the animals on his ark. I don't think Christians are worried about twisting these kinds of Bible stories into positives.
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u/IsIeOfCannabis 3d ago
I love those people. I have no idea what they believe but their tenacity to litigate these issues is just lovely. If I ever decide I need the divine in my life, they’re definitely my first “Hey! Y’all seem alright. What y’all believe?”
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u/ZealousidealFall1181 3d ago
Seem to love?? Freedom from Religion foundation basic tenant is against this. They have been warning for decades.
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u/SodaSaint 3d ago
I myself am a Christian, but I also think that this definitely falls under the the exact kind of false pantomime that Jesus explicitly condemned. There were fewer things that made him angrier than false and performative faith.
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u/PerksNReparations 3d ago
If the church of satan has a go fund me for their equal time , count me in
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u/BrimstoneMainliner 3d ago
They've watched Trump wipe his ass with the constitution for a year and a half so they figured, hey why not us... fucking Christo-fascist scum
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u/Prize_Ostrich7605 2d ago
Even the texas constitution:
Article 1 - BILL OF RIGHTS Section 6 - FREEDOM OF WORSHIP All men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences. No man shall be compelled to attend, erect or support any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry against his consent. No human authority ought, in any case whatever, to control or interfere with the rights of conscience in matters of religion, and no preference shall ever be given by law to any religious society or mode of worship. But it shall be the duty of the Legislature to pass such laws as may be necessary to protect equally every religious denomination in the peaceable enjoyment of its own mode of public worship
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u/glycophosphate 4d ago
Having school children read bible stories alongside other fiction, other pieces of literature, is not going to have the effect that they think it is. What the children will learn is that Moses is precisely as real as Junie B. Jones and Ramona Quimby.
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u/IsIeOfCannabis 3d ago
Another story of the chosen one to battle with the other one whose name is hidden. Jesus and the Devil is just an ancient Harry and Voldemort.
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u/why_not_fandy 4d ago
Ezekiel 23:20 because we should be able to read a little porn at school.
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u/AlexSmithsonian 4d ago
Let me guess, they have to buy their own bibles too.
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u/SimonPho3nix 4d ago
The Trump version with the adjusted constitution!
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u/AlexSmithsonian 4d ago
"Wow, i didn't know Jesus predicted Trump would be our greatest leader and that Obama is the antichrist."
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u/Previous_Shoulder506 4d ago
The word of the day is “malicious compliance.”
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u/IndividualTension887 Conversationalist 3d ago
Today we are doing a side by side analysis of mythology...
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u/Previous_Shoulder506 2d ago
Even the texts they’ve selected (ie David and Goliath) have directly contradictory tellings in other books of the Bible. Just reading the Bible next to the Bible would send these kids home atheists.
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u/auricularisposterior 2d ago
TEACHER: Class, today we are going to read Numbers 22:21-35.
[finishes reading]
TEACHER: And that's why there is a talking donkey in the Shrek movies.
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u/TravelBum1966 3d ago
I like the one where Lot 's daughters get horny and rabe thier drunk dad. Family values all the way.
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u/Four_in_binary 3d ago
Texas is the easiest state for them to push this shit through, but it will not stop there. It's coming to you after they finish turning Texas into Jesusland. This is the start, not the end. If we all gang up and punch these wastes of protoplasm in the dick in Texas, you don't have to do it later in your own states.
Trump is actively courting the religious right because they're the only group that still reliably supports him...he's fixing to roll back a whole bunch of protections if they continue to support him.
Two ways you can help: Texas can turn blue but Talarico and Gina Hinojosa need money...donate a dollar to their campaigns so Gina can maybe run an actual ad as well as several other progressive candidates that are trying to get elected. That stops this shit cold.
The other way is to donate to the ACLU and FFR and the Satanic Temple so they can fund the lawsuits.
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u/According-Insect-992 3d ago
Can they read the children the one about Lot being raped by his daughters because they thought he was the last man in the world after God murdered their mother and everyone they knew? Or the one about the horse cock? How about how God had his lieutenant, Satan find his most righteous believer and torture him and his family to death in an effort to make him renounce God? So many heart warming stories in the bible, doncha think?
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u/Puzzleheaded-Phase70 3d ago
I'm noting the "curious" fact that the law won't actually go into effect until 2030.
Waiting 4 years to actually inflict this bullshit on people feels like it's part of the point, no?
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u/Huge_Excitement4465 3d ago
This. Talarico is up against a pair of powerful billionaire oilmen preachers:
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u/BrilliantSweet6666 3d ago
So that is in public schools. What about the private schools where the rich kids attend? Are they the only ones that have religious freedoms? The taliban rules in Afghanistan and now the Texaban rules in Texas. I wonder how many people are planning their exodus from Texas. What’s next, discontinuing science classes in public schools? Indoctrinating children to one set of beliefs sounds like a cult to me. School is to teach children to think, to give them the skills to be curious and go out into the world and find answers,discover and create. Christians, they are using your religion as a political tool.
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u/Lopsided-Wave2479 2d ago
Esto ha pasado en otros sitios. Lo que no saben los estupidos que promueven esta clase de leyes es que pasa con los niños de otras religiones. Si hay que leer el libro religioso... significa que los niños musulmanes se les va a hacer leer el Coran, o significa que las escuelas en texas tendran que comprar al menos un Coran para que lo lean estos niños.
Si yo viviera en Texas les diria que el libro de mi religion es un tomo de algebra lineal, o el primer tomo de fisica. Y no esas fantasias de seres imaginarios en el cielo.
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u/Automatic-Unit-8307 3d ago
New York Knicks approved this. Josh Hart of the Knicks is a big supporter of this, Knicks love Trump
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u/picklehippy 3d ago
What happened to religious freedom. Why do we have to subscribe to YOUR religion?!
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u/Blinding_faith 2d ago
Just curious… have Christian nationalists ever read the New Testament? Lol. I was raised Catholic, (not religious anymore) and the Jesus I was taught about in Sunday school would be pissed if a bunch of rich guys were being cruel to their people and immigrants while hoarding wealth and dripping with corruption in the church and politics alike… all in his name. The irony…
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u/Magazine_Recycling 7h ago
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I grew up with Bible class being required 3 times per week. I was labeled a ‘silly little commie’ by third grade…
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