Maybe it is but nobody cared. Why don't you ask the Davis County Texas school district.
They would know.
>If you are all so interested in the reasoning of all this, as well as why, then
>why do it from the point of ignorance? All you lazy people do is to copy lists
>of verses, cherry picking them and then try your "Gotcha Games".
So you don't mind teaching your kids that the greatest King of Israel who ever lived,
committed adultery with another man's wife, got her pregnant and then sent him on a
dangerous mission hoping he'd be killed?
>If you really cared to prove your so-called points then why not read the whole
>bible since all the reasoning for these things is written right there. AND, as
>inspired by God speaking to man.
I've read it and it's full of sin. So here's this religious group practicing holier than
thou, getting divorced, committing adultery, smoking meth with rent boys, molesting small
children and all the other sins your pastors commit. You make us read a book filled with
filth, violence and obscenity but ban, "The Bluest Eye", a memoir about growing up black
and female in the Depression, ostensibly because it makes white kids feel uncomfortable or
some such shit. This despite the fact that experience is the best teacher.
You ban "Lawn Boy", a coming of age novel about growing up on the 'wrong side of the
tracks'.
You ban "Crank", a book about surviving addiction to crystal meth. If ever a book was
useful in teaching the dangers of drug abuse this would be it but *you* want your kids
ignorant and naive so when they grow up and encounter these things in life, they won't be
able to deal with them.
And so it goes. Stories taken from real life *today* that can be used to help kids
understand the world around them aren't ok. But violent tales of filth from millennia
ago, unreadable in modern language and with no insights relevant to today is ok.
>Then if you were as astute and you all pretend to be, you can argue with God
>Himself as to why, as well as explain to the Christian plebes what all was so
>wrong about it.
I see no reason to argue with a Sky Fairy when there is plenty of human experience right
here and now to draw on to teach our kids not to sin.
>If someone were foolish enough to take up your arguments with you, they would
>have to quote the entire bible to you so that you could see.
See what? That it's written in languages dead for thousands of years and translated into
another dead language centuries ago by scholars with an agenda?
>If would be far
>faster for you to read it all with the idea of finding out why God said these
>things and what was so wrong with them.
Except the Bible never tells us *why*. It tells us what to do and what others have done
but rarely does it offer any explanation as to *why* except that it'll piss off some
mystical Sky Fairy who will then not send you any presents on Christmas morning.
Christians lost their religion centuries ago. What they practice today is a hollow shell
constructed by the clergy to control the people while giving the clergy license to sin.
>However, we know that you are all to
>lazy. So here you are as either witting or unwitting tools of the evil one, the
>god of this world, and speak the thoughts he puts into your minds.
You are the evil one, trying to pretend that children are going to learn anything from an
apocryphal and self evidently false account of human history.
>There are two basic covenants given to man, one old and done away with, and one
>new.
Both of which are bullshit.
>Many of you were taught false doctrine when you were young and so you have that
>burnt into your minds. And that little bit of knowledge, is all you have and
>upon which you base your rancor.
Oh, yeah? Maybe it's YOUR doctrine that's the false one. Ever think of that?
>When the end of the time of man takes place, in around 1,000 plus years and the
>judgment of all men without God takes place,
*laughs and points* Humans have been saying Jesus is coming back *soon* for millennia.
The Apostles expected the end times in *their* lifetimes!
>it is that you will be raised
>up and judged according to your words and action that were not forgiven of God,
>and then it is that you will bow before him and acknowledge that He alone is
>God, you will know and see your sins, as you are then cast into the Lake of
>Fire and Brimstone to be tortured forever. Far, far worse than the things on
>earth that you question.
Sounds like a good place to put the self righteous who sit in judgment on their fellows.
>And Oh Yes, the reasoning for all of that is also written in that same bible,
>better to understanding it now and change while you are still alive, or die in
>a fixed state where one cannot change their mind.
Except there is no reasoning in the Bible. Aside, that is, from some of what Jesus said.
The Jefferson Bible is the most worthy document to come out of Christianity and even that
isn't guaranteed accurate.
Literal word of God, my ass.
>God loved you enough to offer you free eternal life, Jesus even died for you,
>and if God the Father gave up his Son for you, how then can he hold back any
>good thing from you, if you are willing to believe in him?
Why am I supposed to believe in justice or morality from a God that let the Holocaust
happen *and* pray to Him that He helps us win the game this Sunday?
Swill