Trump touts proposed Bible literacy classes in state schools
Source: The Hill
BY BRETT SAMUELS - 01/28/19 08:58 AM EST
President Trump on Monday embraced a proposal from lawmakers in six states that would allow public schools to offer Bible literacy classes shortly after the subject was discussed on "Fox & Friends."
Link to tweet
The tweet came roughly a half hour after North Dakota state Rep. Aaron McWilliams appeared on "Fox & Friends." McWilliams is co-sponsoring a measure in North Dakota to support Bible literacy classes.
Similar measures have been introduced in Missouri, Indiana, West Virginia, Virginia and Florida.
USA Today reported that the proposals would require or encourage public schools to offer elective classes on the Bible, with a focus on its historical significance.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/427217-trump-touts-proposed-bible-literacy-classes-in-state-schools
trusty elf
(7,404 posts)cstanleytech
(26,361 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,485 posts)Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)Needs a constitution study class.
Larrybanal
(227 posts)trump didn't even know where the religion he was raised in fit into the "christian world" he knows nothing except how to lie
Roy Rolling
(6,943 posts)"I don't want no heathens teaching my kids. We was born snake-handlers, we will die as snake-handling Christians."
---Snake Handling church member.
Lonestarblue
(10,170 posts)jmowreader
(50,601 posts)There are some videos of Signs Following church services on YouTube. They tend to use timber rattlers that are three to four feet long - big enough to kill anyone that pisses them off.
Strange thing is, if someone gets bit they just start praying real hard and dont administer first aid They dont call EMS for the obvious reason: all states where known Signs Following congregations are, except West Virginia and Georgia, have banned snake handling. If the fire department were called in, theyd lose all their snakes at the very minimum. And quite a few videos talk about how someone they loved died of snakebite, but they just keep right on going.
keithbvadu2
(37,051 posts)traveling preacher goes around to back country churches making supper and a little money.
they invite him to stay for supper.
then they invite him for further services.
what services? he asks.
they bring out the snakes.
he asks where the back door is.
don't have one.
reckon where they want one?
Moostache
(9,897 posts)unless ALL religions and their significance, INCLUDING non-belief or simple deism of the founders is included and given equal time and weight.
Enough is enough. This is NOT a "Christian" nation, it is a secular representative republic, period.
notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)Kids can learn about god.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)A false prophet of Christianity, pretending to be the new way.
Corrupting people with honeyed speeches to lead them astray.
A corruptor, liar and deceiver.
And there's the thing about the Anti-Christ's horns and Trump's hair.
Response to DetlefK (Reply #5)
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Basement Beat
(659 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)Harker
(14,138 posts)Even as a non-Christian, I find his feigned interest in religion disgusting.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)"See!? He's one of us, he wants the bible in schools, yay!".
Never mind that virtually every thing he says and does would have made Christ himself shake his head in disbelief.
As long as there's the promise of unrestricted access to guns, and women can't control their own bodies, the Christians can be counted on to fall in line.
Harker
(14,138 posts)The rest just rationalize the inconveniences away. I'd be interested to hear Christian Trumpskyites compare and contrast his merits and values with those of Jimmy Carter, among others.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)But it if did -- I recommend Beshazzar's Feast in the book of Daniel. "mene mene tekel upharsin" - You have been weighed and measure and found lacking
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)So he again proposes something crazy that everybody (including him) will have forgotten by next week... Rinse and repeat
oberliner
(58,724 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,696 posts)Have a little faith in creation and tax cuts.
onetexan
(13,081 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)dhill926
(16,391 posts)in his tiny orange hands. Pandering fuckstick...
yaesu
(8,020 posts)that was his bible no doubt.
eggplant
(3,919 posts)avebury
(10,953 posts)Confucianism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, and so on.
TygrBright
(20,780 posts)yonder
(9,687 posts)Ramen, brothers and sisters
eggplant
(3,919 posts)AllyCat
(16,267 posts)B Stieg
(2,410 posts)Seems only fair.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)justgamma
(3,667 posts)someone should teach him the 6th, 7th, and 8th commandment. Also maybe he should learn the 7 deadly sins. Then get back to us, because I'm pretty sure he would think the Bible is all about trashing him. lol
kag
(4,079 posts)"We're going to have so much sinning! You're gonna be tired of all the sinning!"
jmowreader
(50,601 posts)Watching Trump sin is a whole 'nother kettle 'a' fish.
SeattleVet
(5,485 posts)he appears to have mastered the information in the (fake) 'pamphlet' that Jean Shepherd used to (jokingly) tout on his WOR radio show in the 60's and 70's:
"The Seven Deadly Sins, and How to Get the Most Out of Them"
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Also, this would be unconstitutional. So this is just a play to lock down his evangelical cult base.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)TheBlackAdder
(28,261 posts).
He needs pictures.
.
SweetieD
(1,660 posts)Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Ohiogal
(32,196 posts)In first grade in the early 60s our teacher read out of the Bible to our class every morning. I dont know how she got away with it. We had three Jewish kids in that class too.
snort
(2,334 posts)rockfordfile
(8,709 posts)saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)He really has erased the dignity of our Oval Office. The fool on the hill.
tenderfoot
(8,443 posts)for a while there was a DUer with that name who posted things like that.
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)Just what his base of phony Christains want. Cryfous the Great, king of America speaks
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)European literature, in which I include English literature for this statement, is replete with Bible references. Understanding them, like understanding something about Greek mythology, is very helpful to one who reads literary classics. However, they would never refrain from preaching.
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)My high school offered "Bible as Literature" and that's exactly what it was. You'd read some of the bibile, and then read other works that involved allusions or references to them.
Rizen
(728 posts)Stop trying to force religion on us.
lilactime
(657 posts)You need that to understand English Literature.
Girard442
(6,088 posts)...if Bill Maher teaches them.
area51
(11,944 posts)njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)Did you hear the one about 2 Corinthians who walked into a bar
usaf-vet
(6,239 posts)tRump by all reasonable measurement is illiterate. He's so far away from being the smartest, the biggest brain, the best words, the _______ fill in the blank, delusional fool..... that he is laughable. Laughable for most of the world's leaders.
This bible literacy meme is him desperately trying to please his delusional base.
Snellius
(6,881 posts)defacto7
(13,485 posts)a la izquierda
(11,803 posts)So would that include using the Bible to justify slavery, torture, and also the subjugation of women throughout history?
What else am I missing?
LakeSuperiorView
(1,533 posts)Texin
(2,600 posts)Puhleeze!
Maxheader
(4,374 posts)Offer both...let the student decide...
rocktivity
(44,588 posts)in history class.
rocktivity
Rizen
(728 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,256 posts)being offered as an elective. While I'm not religious and never have been, I can't deny the influence of religion on the history of our planet. That being said, the biggest Bible thumpers I know only know as much of the Bible as their particular preachers share with them. If young people in public schools studied the Bible cover to cover, it probably wouldn't have the outcome the fundies hope for.
oberliner
(58,724 posts)pwb
(11,318 posts)Not much Jesus in this Fake religious right crowd.
stopbush
(24,399 posts)elleng
(131,416 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,485 posts)Drumpf's one of the least Christian people around.
elleng
(131,416 posts)dalton99a
(81,708 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,955 posts)2 Corinthians could put up a good argument against that!
pepperbear
(5,648 posts)I graduated HS in VA in 1981. The English department offered a class called "The Bible as Literature" It was exactlly what it sounds like. There was no proselytizing. We also already took care of school prayer with a moment of silence. This was as early as 1976.
IcyPeas
(21,955 posts)Rizen
(728 posts)What unconstitutional nonsense.
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)Matthew 25:35-40 English Standard Version (ESV)
35 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, 36 I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me. 37 Then the righteous will answer him, saying, Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? 38 And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? 39 And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you? 40 And the King will answer them, Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers,[a] you did it to me.
Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)but that is one part of the Bible I try to live by.
lunamagica
(9,967 posts)Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)I am not very knowledgeable about most religions and other spiritual ways of living, but I have never found a better way to live.
Politicub
(12,165 posts)Guess this is his attempt at buying off his base who wants gawd back in schools.
If this isn't a violation of church and state, then why bother even trying?
But if someone suggested teaching the Quran they'd freak out.
keithbvadu2
(37,051 posts)Amazing how many folks want gov't to teach religion to our children rather than leave it to parental choice.
niyad
(113,966 posts)I am having trouble thinking of the tangerine tyrant touting ANY kind of literacy, let alone biblical.
that is what private religious "schools" are for,yes????
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)Thinking that is a pretty low goal but that seems to be all the Trump supporters look for.
WhoWoodaKnew
(847 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)Takket
(21,715 posts)Drumpf takes and passes the test himself
He doesnt have a chance lol
Archae
(46,377 posts)***Update***: The North Dakota bill at the center of this controversy died in the State Senate after a 42-5 vote against it.
Earlier today, North Dakota State Rep. Aaron McWilliams appeared on Fox & Friends to talk about his bill that would force public schools to offer Bible classes. His legislation, as weve discussed before, doesnt distinguish between teaching the Bible as literature (which could be okay) and teaching it as fact (which would be illegal). His bill doesnt lay out what needed to be taught, only that schools needed to teach it, and that it could replace a one-semester U.S. Government or economics class as a requirement for graduation.
The bill would almost certainly be challenged in court the moment it passed. So of course he was defended it on FOX News.
Bob Loblaw
(1,900 posts)world wide wally
(21,762 posts)and all the Amendments are about the rights you DO have?
No wonder they don't gel as a course in school.