If the Bible is going to be taught in schools

I wonder if they’ll teach all of it

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Have you ever read the Bible, I mean, like the whole Bible, not just the lines and passages of the Bible your pastor or preacher plucks out from in between the rape, incest, murder, and all sorts of nefarious no good thing that goes along with it.

The Bible, read in its entirety, would put any erotic novel to shame, it would have the most vile of the blue movies suddenly rated PG.

People who operate under the assumption that the Bible is some exquisite version of Emily Post with sweet and loving morality tales and happy stories of love and light haven’t read it.

And those that want it taught in school, aren’t interested in the love light parts either. They are looking for ways to control and exert power over the young minds that have slowly become free in the last 60 years or so.

Haven’t we done this already? Didn’t it end with women literally being burned at the stake because they were practicing medicine?

Let’s look at just a couple of the passages, that I wonder how they will be taught and explained, if in fact, we’re actually teaching the Bible.

Let’s first look at the idea of lineage. Bible thumpers love to talk about the traditional marriage. That’s “taught” in the Bible, you know that woman is some sort of precious gem, owner by her husband, that must be protected and cared for and cherished at all times… and again the lineage part is a little sketchy, they often fail to mention that if it’s true that we’re all just descendants of Adam and Eve, well somebody had to fuck their mother and their father.

Let’s discuss Genesis (19) : 33 – 36.

“And they made their father drink wine that night: and the firstborn went in, and lay with her father; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. And it came to pass on the morrow, that the firstborn said unto the younger, Behold, I lay yesternight with my father: let us make him drink wine this night also; and go thou in, and lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father. And they made their father drink wine that night also: and the younger arose, and lay with him; and he perceived not when she lay down, nor when she arose. Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their father.”

I suppose one could argue that this may be taught so that the young girls would start willingly allowing their Fathers, Uncles, Cousin, etc. to rape and molest them. I mean the population of humanities at stake right?

I suppose now an argument in the Supreme Court stating that it’s in the Bible so it must be OK is next? Is that how this is gonna work now?

And let’s not forget King David who raped another man’s wife (Bathsheba) and then tries to get her husband to sleep with her to cover it up, but Uriah is too noble of a gentleman and busy with a war to cavort with his wife, so King David has him murdered.

Come to think of it there’s a whole lot of murderer in the Bible, there’s a whole lot of war and pillaging, entire populations are massacred actually. In the name of God though, so it’s ok to murder if it’s righteous and the wisemen tell us it is or they decide to pretend it is, just like King Trump ( oops I mean David)

I mean, I do find it ironic that the men who demand the 10 Commandments be splayed across the walls of our educational institutions are often the same men that don’t adhere to them.

And if history is taught us you guys wanna go inside anything, it’s that children who are abused and oppressed and forced into false morality by old men, grow into young adults who are able to see the hypocrisy and rise up against it. One can only hope that the youth of today won’t tolerate this bullshit and an uprising is on the horizon.

I mean, if they’re gonna teach the Bible, all of it, then the kids are going to learn all about the greed and malfeasance, depredation and megalomania of the high priests and the kings at the stories in the Bible and hopefully they’ll make the comparison.