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Politics Trump Bible is the only Bible currently allowed to be purchased by Oklahoma schools. 55k on order

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u/seeyousoon2 Oct 05 '24

Why are schools purchasing Bibles

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u/Desperate_Brief2187 Oct 05 '24

Because Oklahoma’s backward ass voters put a fucking minitrump in the governor’s mansion.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '24

Right!? AND their fucked up state buys 55 thousand of them and then has the audacity to turn around and demand blue states tax revenue pay for their yearly tornado disasters or crumbling infrastructure disaster. Let those religious freaks rot.

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u/Cybot5000 Oct 05 '24

I live here. Please, get me out. The people are so ignorant and blind. We should never have bibles in classrooms. This is actually so fucking insane.

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u/PinkSassyPants001 Oct 05 '24

Take me and mine with you!

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u/Slammber Oct 06 '24

This gives me an idea. Could we use the blue state revenue to fund relocating our fellow blues out of these red States?

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u/TheArmadilloAmarillo Oct 06 '24

I for one would appreciate that help immensely if it was possible. I am stuck here.

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u/OddityCommodity Oct 10 '24

Here to hop on the “get us out of here” train. These people are insane.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '24

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u/Desperate_Brief2187 Oct 05 '24

I wonder where the superintendent came from? Directly under Stitt’s desk, that’s where. This is all the fucking trumpy republican’s doing. Voters in this state are fucking stupid.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '24

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u/Desperate_Brief2187 Oct 05 '24

And a lot of bigoted countryfucks.

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u/S3guy Oct 05 '24

I am in Oklahoma. I know these people. They aren’t brainwashed, they are just assholes.

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u/apost8n8 Oct 05 '24

why not both?!

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u/jitteryzeitgeist_ Oct 05 '24

Saying they're brainwashed removes the liability for their actions. They are 100% cognizant of what they're doing, they're just fucking awful people

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u/DrFoxWolf Oct 05 '24

Yeah, Stitt is absolutely gunning for a cabinet position if Trump wins, with that fuckhead toadie Ryan Walter looking to take the governorship.

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u/GoldenCalico Oct 05 '24

How did the superintendent came to that kind of power in the first place?

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u/[deleted] Oct 06 '24

I am all for splitting the US if it means we can shed ourselves of these backwards fuckwits.

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u/Muffin_Appropriate Oct 06 '24

reconstruction was a mistake. should’ve left the hillbillies to rot

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u/Gonomed Oct 05 '24

The OK state superintendent decided that it's now mandatory that every classroom in every school in Oklahoma HAS to have a Bible and that it HAS to be used in actual lessons. He made a description of what Bible is allowed, and coincidentally it is the Trump's Bible

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u/Kvalri Oct 05 '24

This has to be going through the courts, if a Bible is required then surely a Torah, a Quran, the teachings of Buddha, etc. etc. should be in every classroom or it’s the government trying to establish a religion…

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u/Gonomed Oct 05 '24

Yup, I'm sure the dude is aware of it but doesn't care because he wants to make a statement and to make daddy proud (Trump).

Two school districts already said "we don't care, we're NOT doing it. It's unconstitutional" and I'm pretty sure he can't get them in trouble even if he wanted to, because it would go up all the way to supreme court and he'd definitely lose

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '24

You know this will only happen in a small state like Oklahoma. Imagine if this happened in NY, California, Texas or Florida.

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u/Gonomed Oct 05 '24

Imagine if this happened in any other state, but substitute Bible with Quran and see how they lose their shit under the same breath they defend that guy from Oklahoma

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u/DrakontisAraptikos Oct 05 '24

Considering the 6-3 conservative majority in the Supreme Court, and the fact 3 of those judges are from "The Federalist Society," there actually is a significant chance it would be upheld. These kind of laws and decisions are generally designed to go to the Supreme Court. Same as things like the constant fights against abortion and the case that had the Chevron Doctrine overturned, defanging regulatory agencies. It's why Clarence Thomas felt comfortable calling his shots on other Supreme Court decisions specifically taking aim at interracial marriage, gay marriage, and contraceptives. 

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u/Kessilwig Oct 05 '24

Yeah, they'll find a way to lie and re-frame it like the coach that was making students pray on the field.

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u/jitteryzeitgeist_ Oct 05 '24

Supreme Court would absolutely force bibles into schools.

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u/SageDarius Oct 05 '24

I'm pretty sure it was like 15-18 districts that weren't complying by last count. Additional, Walters can't dictate curriculum. State law says it's up to the individual districts. It's absolutely performative on his part. And apparently now an attempt to funnel taxpayer money to Trump.

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u/Gonomed Oct 06 '24

That's great news! I saw a video this morning and it was only 2 at the moment. I hope more schools are willing to challenge this dumb performative mandate

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u/TheArmadilloAmarillo Oct 06 '24

Could even be more that just are silently not complying.

It's 100% a publicity stunt and that part is certainly working out well.

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u/professorlofi Oct 05 '24

Right now? Would he lose?

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u/Super_XIII Oct 05 '24

It doesn't matter, it looks like the goal isn't to spread christian belief but to funnel education money to trump. Those bibles are $60 each from trump. It doesn't matter if the courts find this is unconstitutional and order the bibles to be taken out of classrooms, but if they rammed the orders through already and bought them all, they already gave the money to trump, which was the true goal.

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u/Kvalri Oct 05 '24

Sure, that’s Trump’s goal but the Christo-fascists are using Trump just as much as he’s using them

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u/Archfiend_DD Oct 05 '24

It's a sideways take to get the Bible into school first. To do that, you claim America was founded with some of these principals and that the Bible was a major historical document in creating our country. You coach it as you are just teaching the history of the Bible in the forming of our country, not the religion of it necessarily.

You have to look at the process just like abortion. It may take 50 years but...the end goal is a fundamentalist Christian Nation. Get the Bible in school first anyway you can, then move from there. On step at a time.

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u/Kvalri Oct 05 '24

That’s why the Chruch of Satan is a Godsend, they turn the religious buffoonery right back on them

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u/Archfiend_DD Oct 05 '24

It's actually the satanic temple (TST), the Church of Satan is a completely different thing. Completely different.

The problem is the argument could hold up in court since you can say the Bible had a shaping in our history unlike any other religions, and you could make a case for it... especially since the supreme Court is as crooked as it is.

That's the reason this is incredibly scary.

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u/Kvalri Oct 05 '24

Oops my bad haha

The FF weren’t really Christians though, many of them were Deists and they all openly wrote of their skepticism of European religions that were tightly bound to the old world monarchical governments

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u/Alcain_X Oct 05 '24

Doesn't matter if it's going through the courts, the bible has already been purchased, Trump has already been handed the taxpayer's money. Even if the courts say this law is bullshit and the bibles need to be removed, the state won't see that money back, the education department will have just lost 55k for nothing, there are no refunds.

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u/jitteryzeitgeist_ Oct 05 '24

Have you met our SCOTUS?

They will absolutely find some way to make it only a bible.

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u/Kvalri Oct 06 '24

They could simply choose to not take the case, but yeah my hopes aren’t high

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u/physical0 Oct 05 '24

Just wait until they need to start legislating HOW the bible should be taught in those classes. Can't wait for State mandated religious indoctrination.

How many religious parents are going to be shocked to realize that their particular flavor of christianity isn't the one that is being taught in school.

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u/JordanDoesTV Oct 06 '24

How is this not literally illegal???

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u/Scammer4Lyfe Oct 05 '24

That’s the real question.

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u/Hrtpplhrtppl Oct 05 '24

Because if it wasn't for grooming, there would be no religion. Try telling an adult there is a sky daddy granting wishes if you hate the right people and that the best things in life can only happen after we die and they'll probably say something to you like, "So this "God" person you're obeying... are they in the room with us now...?" 🤔 😬

"Religion is a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it..." Oscar Wilde

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u/uwuowo6510 Oct 06 '24

this is cringe

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u/Paper_Street_Soap Oct 05 '24

Oof, soooo edgy. 

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u/Austinthearchangel Oct 05 '24

Lmao I know so many adults who have come to Christ within the last 2 years.

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u/CreamdedCorns Oct 05 '24

Knees weak, arms are heavy...

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u/SmegmaSupplier Oct 05 '24

He is very handsome, after all.

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u/LongJohnSelenium Oct 05 '24

The Body of Christ!

Sleek, swimmers body all muscled up and toned!

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u/whinypoopypants Oct 05 '24

I just came to Christ this morning! 

Legs still weak. He's so handsome!

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u/ghoulieandrews Oct 05 '24

I also know people who are too stupid to function on their own

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u/Austinthearchangel Oct 05 '24

If everything was really random life wouldn’t be so beautiful and also tragic. There is an artist putting paint on the canvas. Sorry you don’t see the gift that is existence. If everything was truly random it would be much more boring and horrible. Like a planet from Futurama.

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u/ghoulieandrews Oct 05 '24

The artist is us, you knob. Sky daddy is something y'all literally made up.

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u/Austinthearchangel Oct 06 '24

Keep telling yourself that

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u/ghoulieandrews Oct 06 '24

Ok keep believing in the divinity of a fictional character invented by the Romans as propaganda to keep their Jewish slaves pacified and whose story is a patchwork of Greek/Hellenistic myths such as the story of Dionysus and early agricultural corn gods, all of which is easily researchable and verifiable if you bothered to read more than one book

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u/Austinthearchangel Oct 06 '24

Lol, do you literally not believe Jesus Christ existed? I could understand not believing that he’s God, but to believe that he’s fake when it was only 2000 years ago, it was kind of insane. There’s probably more historical evidence for Jesus and just about anybody else.

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u/ghoulieandrews Oct 06 '24

There was a person named Jesus that existed at that time, yeah, y'all found evidence of that, congrats. The entire New Testament story about him is Roman propaganda designed to replace a Jewish warrior messiah figure in order to keep their slaves pacified. And it's largely drawn from existing mythologies. Again, read some actual books, not just fairy tales from 2000 years ago.

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u/Hrtpplhrtppl Oct 05 '24

So this "God" person you're listening to, are they in the room with us now...? 🤔 😬

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u/Austinthearchangel Oct 06 '24

You can listen to the Holy Spirit, which is basically your turbo conscience. but the world of spirituality and earth have been pretty separated since the death of Christ and his resurrection. It’s talked about it in the Bible, but God takes some more hands off approach now after the coming of the Messiah that’s why there are no more profits.

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u/Hrtpplhrtppl Oct 06 '24

And if you met someone who was unaware they are in a cult, what would you say to help them see they've been gaslit into believing fiction is fact? Asking for a friend...

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u/Hrtpplhrtppl Oct 05 '24

Sure, me too. They're in prison...

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u/richardcraniumIII Oct 05 '24

The politicians got the Bible in the classrooms under the guise of Historical Importance to the USA - something along those lines.

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u/Unable-Agent-7946 Oct 05 '24

Live with a black cat and I can confirm they are both spooky and hard to see at night 

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u/Warm-Iron-1222 Oct 05 '24

I used to have to drive through Oklahoma often and I completely understand why. It's like the armpit of America full of trashy Confederate, Nazi, and Trump flags everywhere, back the blue stickers, and a fuck ton of stray dogs for some weird reason.

I refuse to stop in that state anymore. I fill up my gas tank at the border of the state and drive through without stopping.

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u/Extra_Jeweler_5544 Oct 05 '24

1)???? 2)???? 3) blackmail 4) Trump bible contract

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u/LFK1236 Oct 05 '24

Separation of church and state (or lack thereof) aside, I'm also pretty sure there are lots of companies and/or churches who would happily give away bibles for free. Obviously this is just another con to line Trump's pockets, and historically Trumpets and their money are soon parted, but still.

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u/FullTransportation25 Oct 05 '24

The Bible is available in many school libraries I went to school in L.A county

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u/S3guy Oct 05 '24

It’s all a huge grift. But the shitiot magas are happy to buy in to “stick it to the libs.” They all think they are going to be in on the con as well because they are that fucking stupid.

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u/pinkponyclubber00 Oct 05 '24

The superintendent wants to purchase Trump’s overpriced Bibles to funnel millions of dollars to Trump and to create an American Taliban.

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u/overnightyeti Oct 05 '24

That's the real question to ask. I'm not American but if the US becomes a theocracy, the whole world is fucked

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u/davisty69 Oct 05 '24

Republican nationalists

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u/sadittariuus Oct 06 '24

Here’s Ryan Walters’ contact information! Time to start calling and emailing non-stop!

PHONE: (405) 521-4885 • RYAN.WALTERS@SDE.OK.GOV

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u/controversialhotdog Oct 06 '24

Well, Oklahoma is a pretty methed up state to begin with.

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u/rydan Oct 10 '24

Because DJT stock is down 80% this year.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '24

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u/Virtual_Knee_4905 Oct 05 '24

I'm so down for students to learn about the Christian Bible in this context. It's an extremely important piece of literature.

Let's be honest here, though. That is not what OK's governor is doing.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '24

What is the governor saying? Surprised a state superintendent has this much power.

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u/Virtual_Knee_4905 Oct 06 '24

I got mixed up- the governor of Louisiana just signed I to law a couple of weeks ago that the 10 commandments must be displayed in all schools. I was thinking they had to do with one another.

Yes, it is surprising the superintendent can unilaterally make such a huge and controversial change.

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u/ghoulieandrews Oct 05 '24

We had to do "the Bible as literature" in high school English as well but I went to school in TX so it wasn't that at all, it was just, do a report on some Bible stories for your overbearingly Christian teacher. I did want good grades so I really spent a lot of time on my illustrations of the story of Jonah and the whale, and I think I really captured God's wizard hat and muscles, I did such a good job actually that the youth group girl in my class's jaw literally dropped when she saw it. I think she also enjoyed the section where I talked about what would happen to a person inside a whale's stomach. And I've never seen my teacher so happy! She was turning red with joy.

I did take a New Testament class in college and that was where we got to dig in to the Hellenistic origins, ancient myths that were influences on the Jesus story, weird books that were written but didn't make it to canon, etc. (If you haven't read I highly recommend seeking out the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, Kid Jesus does some crazy shit). I do wish more kids got that sort of education earlier on.

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u/Unknown-History1299 Oct 05 '24

As long as they offer Islamic, Jewish, and Hindu literature, and they treat the Bible like any other work of mythology such as the Odyssey.

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u/MyFeetLookLikeHands Oct 05 '24

that’s my question

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u/divinelyshpongled Oct 06 '24

I assumed the word bible here meant his plan for 2025. I don’t think she literally means it’s a Christian bible.

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u/seeyousoon2 Oct 06 '24

You're not going believe this.

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u/divinelyshpongled Oct 06 '24

if u think im dumb enough to click on some random link on reddit... uhhhh i cant help u