Bids opened Monday for a contract to supply the state Department of Education with 55,000 Bibles. According to the bid documents, vendors must meet certain specifications: Bibles must be the King James Version; must contain the Old and New Testaments; must include copies of the Pledge of Allegiance, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights; and must be bound in leather or leather-like material.
A salesperson at Mardel Christian & Education searched, and though they carry 2,900 Bibles, none fit the parameters.
But one Bible fits perfectly: Lee Greenwood’s God Bless the U.S.A. Bible, endorsed by former President Donald Trump and commonly referred to as the Trump Bible. They cost $60 each online, with Trump receiving fees for his endorsement.
For fuck’s sake in ten years we’re going to hear kids tell us the Constitution was given to us by Jesus.
Yep, that’s when you start with the answer you want, then set “general” requirements that only it can meet
Why are they putting bibles in classrooms in the first place? Did they repeal the First Amendment?
The first amendment doesn’t apply to Christian evangelism.
According to SCOTUS at any rate.
The Bible is really important for understanding western society and it’s history. It has a place in the classroom.
I’m sure that was not the motivation behind that law but it’s true.
Apparently, the State Superintendent gets to decide what gets taught in classrooms, and how it gets taught is left up to individual school districts. But it’s fully within his right because no “commentary” is allowed around the Bible, just how important it was to America’s history.
Why that requires a physical copy that’s leather bound, I have no idea. Nor why the money has to come from the fucking payroll budget.
Oklahoma is ranked 49th in education, yet this is what we’re spending money on? Seriously?
But they are top five in propaganda training!
Is there a term for a society that has all the wealth, technology, industrial knowledge, and manpower readily at hand to be a utopia and despite that, leans hard into dystopia?
Murika
Civilization
I’m sure jeebus had a thing or two to say about marketplaces of thieves and swindlers.
“It is written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are making it a den of robbers.” -Matthew 21:13
To be clear, I don’t believe in fairy tales, but they clearly don’t either.
I like to read the biblical texts as texts you have to interpret. Basically like fairytales and fables are in versions that aren’t from the brothers Grimm and especially Disney - they often were used to carry points that wouldn’t have been tolerated by authority if they hadn’t been covered like that, or simply to tell about some aspects of life.
When reading it like this the Bible is an extremely interesting book, and I’m saying that as an atheist.
Fables if u will
Bible […] must include copies of the Pledge of Allegiance, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights
I’m sorry? Why would people mixed (modern) political text to their religious ones? Aren’t people buying bibles suppose to care about their religion?
By making those requirements they are making sure money is diverted from teacher’s paychecks an into Trump’s pockers
The goal is to abolish separation between church and state bit by bit.
Pretty sure the goal here is to funnel more money to Trump.
This seems more like taking a tank through a screen door. The separation is barely there to begin with.
They catered the criteria so only a single company fit the bill
if that doesnt convince you that religion is made up on the spot for conniving convenience, nothing will
Trump, cashing in on licensing. Like the $100K watches, where proceeds don’t quite go to funding his campaign. They money goes pretty much directly to his pocket. He loves the poorly educated!
To be fair, the average readers just interpret the word as is convenient to their own ends, so…
That is pretty messed up.
There is no better description of the anti christ than trump.
I don’t believe in the coming of an antichrist but damn, why do so many prophecies written two millennia ago point to one specific person, especially when those prophecies are so specific
I think they just had a very good idea of the concept of an evil, immoral leader.
They had plenty of them back then after all. Especially in the Roman empire.
But then there’s also the seven heads (seven trump headquarters), getting shot in the head thinking it’s fatal but surviving seemingly through a miracle, the ones about his relations to the kingdom to the south, resulting in criticism from the north and east etc
Of course it’s coincidence (at some point there just has to be someone who can be accurately described with these prophecies) but it’s still very interesting
He’s also the Republican’s golden calf.
Shouldn’t Church and State doctrine (or whatever it is called) immediately make all of this illegal?
It’s not mixing the two, it’s a founding document of our nation, and what our society is based on. /probably
As someone who is at least a bit religious, get that blasphemy out of the Bible, don’t allow that blasphemer to profit off religion, and whatever you do, get such blasphemy out of the school. Being the state with the 49th best education is not a good thing, nor is aspiring to 50th
It’s probably purposely designed to create a court case so the Supreme Court can hollow out that principle.
I will give credit to Republicans on this. They spent decades playing thre ong game with the judiciary. Now, that Republicans achieve their goal. They are now engineering facts to get cases to SCOTUS. The only way to play, is don’t appeal cases. Leave the cases at the trial level or first level appeal.
Fix the judiciary, then start taking these fucks all the to top.
Yep! That’s why they’re counting on, throwing enough dollars at the conservative judges that they will let this theocratic bullshit stand.
Fuck them and anyone who supports their religion
You haven’t ever been to OK have you?
Marrying your cousin is also supposedly “illegal”
Scam to shovel taxpayer dollars to Trump.
Specifically created for the grift.
Walters is a piece of shit.
Forcing your State to buy 55000 Bibles from ONLY Trump is PROOF that DEMOCRATS are the Swamp!
