• aesthelete@lemmy.world
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    44 minutes ago

    Honestly, at this point I’d be happy if American children were capable of reading anything.

  • daannii@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    My favorite is the story of Sampson. Who has magic hair.
    And a mean woman cuts it off after he was post nut sleeping and then he was turned into a slave.

    But over time his magic hair grew back and then he killed all the haters.

    Also reading the Bible will

    1. Teach you to have no critical thought and accept absurd stories.
    2. Alternatively, turn you into an atheist.
  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    The only people that think it’s a good idea are people who’ve never read the Bible.

    Song of Solomon is no substitute for proper sex education.

    Even if it is “enlightening”

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    I was forced to actually read the bible in school. It successfully converted me to atheism.

    To be fair, the story of the three daughters that get their geriatric father drunk and repeatedly gang rape him until they are all pregnant was particularly enlightening.

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      55 minutes ago

      Same but the priest was actively telling us which chapter to read and which to jump. I never remembered which to jump or read so i just read everything, and i became an atheist… My mother kept telling me that to ask the priest when noting anomalies or having questions. The priest finally told me that the bible was written by humains so it doesn’t have to be read exactly and is full of mistakes. My great mother told my mother that if you don’t teach the bible properly you become an atheist like me… I think she mean that the priest not hitting me when asking question was a mistake XD

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      13 hours ago

      I prefer when a man calls bears to kill all the first sons in a village because he was called bald.

    • chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 hours ago

      I also had to read the bible in school, although importantly this was highschool english class, we read basically the whole thing, and it was treated similarly to other literature, it was overall very educational and important context for understanding western society. From the article it sounds like a lot of what they’re planning in Texas is to show kindergartners religious propaganda about the bible and small passages rather than giving students an unfiltered look at the full text, which seems less useful.

    • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      i like the part with balaam hitching his ass to a tree and walking a mile. also old baldy elisha and his mastery of the spell summon bear swarm. poor guy could never figure out how to cast

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    11 hours ago

    I’ve experienced reciting the pledge of allegiance and the lords prayer.
    It’s all indoctrination

  • jordanlund@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Start with Ezekiel 20:24-26

    24 Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.

    25 Wherefore I gave them also statutes that were not good, and judgments whereby they should not live;

    26 And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the Lord.

    • Pat_Riot@lemmy.today
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      14 hours ago

      The Satanic Temple is the more activist organization. Church of acts more like a conventional religion.

  • MinnesotaGoddam@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    i learned to read off an old king james version (probably 1920s edition somewhere. my oldest sibling inherited it and their kids learned similarly) when i was 4. honestly, it taught me to read challenging verbiage and stick with uninteresting texts. i think only my parents thought it was literal.