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#Texas has approved Bible-infused lessons in public schools in an initial vote. The curriculum could become a model for other states under the #Trump administration- NYT

David

@GottaLaff Every teacher should ask "How many of these Bible rules has Donald Trump broken?"

@david1 @GottaLaff 9 commandments. All 10 if you count attempted murder.

@david1 @GottaLaff

Amazed that non-Christian parents are okay with their children being forced to adhere to requirements of another faith.

This is how factional violence begins...making a state religion & imposing it on nonbelievers.

Checks notes on the centuries of Irish & English religious wars, Arabic nations & religious wars, & religious wars in Asia

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religi

It doesn't end well
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe

Decades of human advancement & progress lost to factional violence

en.m.wikipedia.orgReligious war - Wikipedia

@GottaLaff @david1 @Npars01 Teachers should teach from The Orangeman’s Bible, or Catholic Bible or The Book of Mormon or the Adi Granth (Seik). And focus on the books that are different. Result: big religious organizations will weigh in a beat each other up, demonstrating quickly the fundamental reason this is dumb and untenable.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuter

en.m.wikipedia.orgDeuterocanonical books - Wikipedia

@Npars01 @david1 @GottaLaff the founders intended to create the “wall” between church and state precisely because they were closer to living memory of the religious wars in Europe.

@mwyman @Npars01 @david1 @GottaLaff
They weren't just closer in time*, but a lot of them, or at least their ancestors, had emigrated because they lost the wars of religion. They had a very strong reason to resist the government imposing religion on them.

*It's interesting to think that the English Civil War was closer in time to the American Revolution than the American Civil War is to today.