• solidheron@sh.itjust.works
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    Time to read the multiple pro immigrant and pro refugee quotes in the Bible.

    Also we can read the parts where other gifs are mentioned

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    Passages, mind you, not the book itself.

    If they read the whole thing kids might figure out that “Christian Nationalists” are everything Jesus was against.

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      You could also just go with some of the teachings of Jesus. Like love thy neighbour, that was a pretty big one. Pretty sure he said not to be a judgemental belled too, probably paraphrasing a bit with that one.

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      When I was a kid I was forced into church and Christian school. I was required to read the Bible every day of the week.

      This was how I realized it was all bullshit. I believed fully in God until about age 12 or so, when I completed my first pass of the Bible.

      It really is the fastest way to make average intelligence or higher Christians shed their faith.

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        Thats why they will only memorise a few passages and not actually study it academically.

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      Yeah, I really think promoting Christianity by leadership living Christian values by example would work. Unfortunately for them their conservative brainrot is really far from Christianity…

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    I live over in Arkansas where they’ve mandated 12 commandments (and I get to see them every day, working in a school) and let me tell you, they don’t have the intended effect, unless the intended effect is driving people further away from Christianity in droves by making a show of forcing it down everyone’s throat. So, sure, whatever Texas, breed us some angry atheists in a generation.

    edit: We did away with all the woke commandments and added Stand your Ground, Prosperity Gospel, Hungry Kids Are Just Lazy, and Charter Schools as White as Snow

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    Starting with elementary school children is quite literally the fear-mongering indoctrination that the far right always bitches about Democrats doing.

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    There’s an old saying: “If I owned Hell and Texas, I’d rent out Texas and live in Hell.”

    It’d be cooler anyway.

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    Religious people should be put in camps and be deprogrammed from their insane cult.

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    I’m sure that having it assigned in school will make religion cool again for the next generation ;P

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    They taught my child about angels, Moses, and Noah in history class. But there was one question on the review about Mohammed, so you couldn’t say they were only teaching Christianity. So aways, I moved the fuck out of that state and my kids are receiving a wonderful education in Connecticut where they teach things like critical thinking and dealing with emotions and that everyone is welcome regardless of race, sex, religion, sexual orientation.

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    And to think that some of my family firmly and fully believes that Christians are the most persecuted people in the entire country.

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      Of course they are super persecuted. Just look at how so many people have a problem with them putting bible studies in public school! No one else suffers like that! /s

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        Now that they have the Bible in there, we’ll have to mandate the Quran next and really pump up the discourse.

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    Reading about the USA really is incredibly depressing. I just look at news articles like this, and wonder how things ever got so bad.

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        It’s not hacked. Our government is working exactly as intended: for the benefit of the owning class and reinforcement of their hierarchical control over society.

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          Both things can be true. But it was definitely hacked

          And by that I mean the democracy part has been manipulated over a long period so a minority has more power than the majority. That’s why religious extremists are able to achieve things like this - they’re a small group of the population, but the fascist technocrats behind it all like to use their heraldry

          But without voter suppression, breaking norms, and stacking the courts, this never would have flown

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        These problems have been brewing since before we were a country. Turns out you can’t make a system that panders to racist slavers without substantial consequences.

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          The cracks were always there, but it’s like global warming. Decades and decades of people ringing the alarm bell and warning signs before things come to the natural conclusion

          We’re getting real close to the find out part of both issues