OK State Dept of Ed head, Ryan Walters, to purchase 55,000 Bibles for schools. Describes tRump Bibles!

[jmbar2]

This is crooked as can be... I think this guy wants to be Secretary of Gilead in the next tRump administration, after they gut the DOE.

Link to tweet

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

1. "only the Kings James version for historical accuracy"... only this version because it's Ryan's Bible preference

[FarPoint]

2. My first thought...

Time for a student bonfire event .... We will never get the money back and they will escape prosecution...so, why not burn them in a message protest? Just an idea.

[hatrack]

3. Of course!

Because only the version written in the 1600s, three thousand years after the initial folktales were scribbled down on parchment, is "historically accurate".

[rurallib]

6. The historically accurate Noah's Ark and Job in the belly of a whale

Those must be reported accurately

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. They can always put them in every motel

and hotel room in the little drawer next to the double bed.

In Utah they even had Book of Mormon as well.

It doesn't work to push radical any religion on kids. They will rebel and go the opposite direction.

[jmbar2]

9. PKs were always the wildest kids in my school

They're gonna turn a bunch of kids into preacher's kids. Fun, fun....

[leftyladyfrommo]

10. I use to love feeling like I was radical but

I was stuck in an almost all Mormon highschool.

[jmbar2]

12. I hope you have recovered from that trauma!

[leftyladyfrommo]

13. I have liked a lot of Mormons and the

Teachers in that highschool were really good. Somehow Mormons are able to put their religious views in a box and keep them separate from their practical daily views. It was the control of the church that I had a problem with.

[jmbar2]

17. That's true - they really do value education

I lived in Japan earlier in life and the Mormon missionaries all spoke excellent Japanese. They have amazing language curriculum.

[leftyladyfrommo]

19. Brigham Young University is famous for

it's language program.

[dalton99a]

5. Pure Trump trash

[tanyev]

7. "Siri, tell me a legal way to funnel school tax revenue to Donald J. Trump."

[LeftinOH]

8. "King James version for historical accuracy..." There are

a LOT of American fundamentalist idiots who sincerely believe that the bible was originally written in 17th-century English -- and that every other bible version (in English or in any other language) is an inconsequential corruption of the KJV.

[Conjuay]

11. I thought it was required to receive bids for purchases and generally the lowest bid won.

I'm sure "Trump's God Book" is not the low bid option.

[tanyev]

15. Yes, but if you write the bid to include even small details of the product you want,

most of the other bids will not meet all the requirements, leaving the field free for the preferred product.

[RainCaster]

14. King James version because it's public domain

No royalties to pay means more money in TSF's pocket. MAGA gonna grift.

[struggle4progress]

16. Walters wants to spend $6 million

By Beth Wallis, StateImpact Oklahoma
Published September 27, 2024 at 4:00 AM CDT

... State Superintendent Ryan Walters announced in his annual budget proposal $3 million was already being spent on classroom Bibles, and the board voted to ask the legislature for an additional $3 million ...

The request comes three months after Walters announced schools would be required to have Bibles in classrooms and teachers would be required to teach about them. A survey published earlier this month by StateImpact found among the 54 district superintendent respondents, about 90% say they are not changing their instructional practices to teach the Bible, and about two-thirds say they will not supply physical copies of the Bible ...

https://www.kosu.org/politics/2024-09-27/superintendent-ryan-walters-asks-for-6-million-to-put-bibles-in-oklahoma-classrooms

[jmbar2]

18. Glad to see them kicking back

Walters going all out here for Trump. I hope his world crumbles if Trump loses.