• 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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      Yeah I feel like this may have the opposite effect, making kids see it as some boring school/old people stuff rather than ignoring its existence and learning about it from “tradcon” memes on social media, which may make it look “cooler” to them

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      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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      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.

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