There are waaay better fantasy books out there…
Doesn’t the first clause of the first amendment say the government shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion?
I guess Texas can’t read.
Texas fought two wars to preserve slavery. One against Mexico, and one against The Union.
They can’t read but they can sure tell you some Bible stories.
Well, the lines that give them excuses to hate people at least.
The Supreme Court has already ruled against this. The point is to let this corrupt court reverse that ruling.
If they let this stand I would be motivated to be violent
On the plus side, forcing middle-schoolers to actually read the Bible is a great way to get them to hate it. The Bible is… not exactly an enjoyable reading experience, and that’s coming from someone who loves to read. You think this is going to be anything but torture for today’s TikTok-brain kids?
Bold of you to assume America’s public school students are still capable of reading.
You still have a public school system?
Ya’ll Queda strikes again
Can parents exempt their children from this? Because they already let them avoid sex education and anything that might not be hetero.
The American Taliban
Isn’t Mythology required reading in many states? How is this different? (ducks)
Actually ducks don’t appear too often in mythology too much. Swans do though, if you are in a myth and a swan appears just run it’s probably Zeus and he is fully intending to commit sexual assault.
They did the specifically to get sued. Then they can claim their being attacked by the left/woke/lgbt/athiest/satinist/bogeyman and make a bunch of noise when (if but probably when) it’s ruled unconstitutional. It’s become their MO; do something blatantly illegal, then kick and scream like a toddler because you forced everybody else to sue to strike it down. The assholes get to brag that they did something to protect religious freedom, or cultural values, or family protection, or some such shit, and then they get to make a lot of noise in the press when they get knocked on their ass for it. Then while the people who actually care about the law are busy fighting that they can repeat the process two or three more times. It’s sisyphian bullshit and I hate it.
To promote their Christian nationalist agenda.
But the ones pushing the law didn’t read the bible.
No but Jesus will forgive them if they force it on our kids
It’s okay I’m sure they’ll focus on the passage about the rich getting into heaven as likely as a camel going through a needles eye and all that chasing money changers from the temple
Teacher should make a whole thing of teaching them the original languages of each passage, and also the Latin Vulgate so they’ll get something useful out of it.
Not gonna lie if I had the opportunity to learn Hebrew, Koine Greek, Aramaic and Latin in school that would have been amazing. Where I live, it was only Spanish
Latin
All the better for demon-summoning incantations. And just freaking people the fuck out.
Latin and Ancient Greek were fun for a cumulated 3 minutes before I realised how unrelated those are to any of young-me interests. And it was a 2 or 3 years ride…
What about old you? I’ve always thought reading the classics in their mother tongue would be great!
In the “highest(?)” secondary school called, Gymnasium in the Netherlands you still have to take years of both Greek and Latin. My son hated ever second of it, but it’s fun my wife can still read a tiny bit of modern Greek.
Sure. I learned english largely to be able to read OG Pratchet & Tolkien. Old Greek & Latin I have actually zero interest into most of it. Maybe if that’s your thing it would be great but in that case nothing it preventing you to learn old language whenever. Young-me had no choice - those were mandatory at school.
Reading doesn’t mean understanding. If I had children in Texas, I’d encourage them to ask questions over and over.
Critical thinking is the problem they’re trying to solve.
I’d move.
