There’s that story about collecting all the enemies foreskins. That should be near the top of the To Read list
One should point them to the interesting passages then.
the incest, rape, or rape incest?
Lot, Noahs daughters, Solomons song, one of the kings (was it David or Solomon) got virgins in his bed every night (and back then, those virgins were likely not older than 18, on the contrary).
And, to balance this out a bit, the places where Jesus teaches to love your neighbor like yourself, where rich people won’t enter heaven, where he drives those who commercialize faith out of the temple with a whip.
If you’ve actually read the bible and not just remember the few sanitized bits from some preachers with an agenda, you’ll notice there are a number of messages they don’t want you to really know.
I bet the Sermon on the Mount won’t be required reading.
Or “give away all your wealth to follow me”.
Don’t forget the genocide.
This is less “Today I Learned”, and more “News”.
There’s another post here on Israel’s use of drones on Gazan civilians.
People either don’t understand or don’t care about the original purpose of this community and the subreddit that inspired it.
Not every space needs to be used to keep the outrage machine pumping, man…
It’s because that was a rule on the reddit community and for some reason the mods here don’t have that rule.
I would argue this violates Rule 5.
Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.
Posts and comments which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.
Maybe. But I’m not sure that should be a rule anyway.
I’d replace it with: “No events that have happened within the last year.”
There used to be rules about this sort of thing.
Maybe it’s a good thing. Reading the Bible was what made me an atheist.
Day 1 create light. Day 4 create light source.
Day 3 - things that rely on photosynthesis
Sounds like a weird tutorial for a game engine.
Religion is the ultimate form of control because it perpetuates itself. Once a person is indoctrinated they are compelled to go out and infect others. It is then twisted to mean whatever the ruling class wants it to mean.
i know exactly what you mean. Ive indoctrinated myself with concepts such as human rights, privacy and linux.
Im such a nuisance to the people around me, especially with privacy as a lot feel like they have no chance and got used to it
(i try to limit the annoying to useful stuff so they are less annoyed and i can influence them more later)
I thought gay propaganda was shoved to students in schools? How the turntables.
I thought gay propaganda was shoved to students in schools?
It’s not a table turning so much as a ratchet clicking. Americans need to have the courage to release it.
Let them do it, it’s a good way to drive them from religion. Because the Bible is boring af
The books of Judges, Ruth, and Esther are actually pretty engaging for things from antiquity. Some of the nuance is lost if a person isn’t familiar with the cultures of the time. Anything from 1 Samuel about David’s Mighty Warriors (or Men of Fame, or Mighty Men, depending on translation) is usually pretty engaging as well
People don’t usually get driven from religion because it’s boring, they usually are turned off by hypocrisy. “Do this because God says so. Yes I’m not doing it, but [excuse]”. This is true of any religion. Either the person comes to terms with the gap between doctrine and behavior or they turn away from their religion of origin
Translation: Our base isn’t dumb enough. We can make them dumber!
in texas of all places. a literal desert, and overruned by feral hogs, very fitting.
if god was real, you wouldn’t have to indoctrinate children into believing it
I’m in a fortunate position to be able to send my kid to private montessori school in Texas. The public schools here are totally fucked. The state has been cranking down funding for years, and the tax recapture system the state set up takes funding from urban districts and sends it to rural districts. Then, when the urban districts languish with significant underfunding, if even one school in a district receives a failing grade on standardized assessments 3 years in a row, the state can come in and take over the school district. They’ve already done it to Houston ISD, and they’re about to do it to Austin ISD. Education in Texas is absolutely fucked
(Copied this from my comment on another thread about this)
most of the red states likely having diverted funding to “charter school vouchers” which are actually just scams that redirects the funding back to the gop campaigns. its by designed to create more incels/ bumpkins that keep voting republicans. they need to source the future generation of GOP voters/politicians. it a double edge sword, because if they make them too DUMB , they cant even be used as cannon fodder for the military.
I wouldn’t mind, if they would also be required to read important texts from other religions (eg. Qur’an, Bhagavad Gita, etc.).
The whole thing, or just select passages with an adult to tell them what it means?
Critical analysis of the text in it’s entirety might produce unexpected results.
Great! Maybe they’ll finally notice how fucking stupid it is?.. Right? Right?
This is obvious SCOTUS bait.
The genuine worry is, will SCOTUS use this to destroy the 1st amendment?
From what I’ve heard the law is written requiring rather Protestant verbage, where 6/9 justices are Catholic. Depending on flavor of Protestant, not all even consider Catholics as Christians.
They did this during the GWB admin, they quietly walked it back after kids started applying the lessons from the bible to their right wing leaders, and asking why they didn’t adhere to them.
Never interrupt your enemy while they are making a mistake
