“We’re going to stop watering down American history. We’re going to teach the truth. Our nation was founded as a Christian nation, and Texas is a Christian state,” said Hall, a Republican who is a pastor in Springtown. He said the Bible has had a “remarkable impact on our culture, our societies and our laws.”
No, you fucking brainstem, this nation was not founded as a xtian nation.
And no, “the” bible did not have much impact on our laws. Find one mention of it in the Constitution.
And then look at the First Amendment vs. the so-called “first commandment”. They are in direct conflict with one another. In this free country, I’m well within my rights to worship any god I want, or no god at all.
Your rules are for YOU and those in your book club. They don’t apply to everyone. No one, least of all minorities in a captive audience, should be obligated to have to listen to your blatantly stupid and wrong bullshit.
If religious people could read they would be very angry with your comment. But then again, if they could read they likely wouldn’t be religious.
I can smell the pretentiousness of this comment through my phone…
What am I being pretentious about exactly? Do you know what the word means?
This holier than thou attitude that equates religion solely with ignorance and hatred. Essentially blaming all of the world’s problems on the feet of the religious when it’s usually just the greedy and prideful. Its like that episode of South Park where they love the smell of their own farts.
Internet atheism is ripe with pretentiousness which is weird because in person it’s usually quieter and a lot more nuanced. And before you go there I don’t subscribe to any religion but I don’t feel the need to call the religious stupid
The Establishment Clause of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits Congress from establishing an official religion or favoring one religion over another. This clause ensures a separation of church and state, allowing individuals the freedom to practice their religion without government interference. This is EXACTLY the opposite of that and I’m so sick of these right wing assholes trying to rewrite history to fit their agenda.
Ironically, it was xtian activists that were highly concerned about those freedoms in the very early days:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptists_in_the_history_of_separation_of_church_and_state
Apparently, decade upon decade of radical extremism among xtians along with huffing their own farts in their propaganda chambers has led to trying to completely overturn our system, in the hopes that out of the 45,000+ denominations of xtianity, it will be their personal lifestyle’s denomination that will come out on top…
This move reeks of desperation of a dying sphere of influence. The old geezers who pushed it will have short term gratification, many on the way to their graves.
But imposing their views will come at a cost. Kids are more aware than they think. The backlash to being force-fed christianity will poison its tentacles even as they grow.
A failing empire says what now.
Ezekiel 23:20
Bible is perhaps the most important cultural work. As long as they don’t say it’s truth, I see nothing wrong with it.
The bible doesn’t contain a fiction disclaimer.
I’ve never seen that in any book
“This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.”
you’ve never seen that? you must not read very much.
I read a lot, but mostly ebooks and science related stuff.
I’ve never seen anything like that.
They are put in the front pages of any work of fiction in the modern era.
As I said I don’t read much fiction. I tried 3 books I know for a fact are fictional from my physical collection and another 3 from my ereader and not even one of them had such disclaimer.
You know that’s not how they’ll implement it
I’ve read the article, have you?
Yep
“We’re going to stop watering down American history. We’re going to teach the truth. Our nation was founded as a Christian nation, and Texas is a Christian state,” said Hall
That doesn’t mean they’re going to teach that bible is the truth. I interpreted those words as: “American origins are christian, so we’re going to be learning about christianity”. Controversial? Sure. Do I agree? No.
But it’s not like they will show bible as truth
You know that’s not how they’ll implement it
Ah, there’s that word: “controversial”.
It’s the biggest anti-culture work ever created. That shit still divides Humanity faster than a cancerous cell does. So much xenophobia and racism is provoked by religious elitism. The Bible is useless. Like 99.9% of the world hasn’t even read more than 5 pages, honestly. We don’t need religion to be good people.
Holy shit are you for real??? Like wtf… pass whatever your smoking already!
