Bible banned from Texas schools for being sexually explicit

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So when does "The Art of Oral Sex" debut in school libraries?

Also sure bible studies in my catholic school focused on the new testament which is "clean" except for the John the Baptist stuff which was a little eye opening.

No—you only think you need outrage if you’re playing by a system already rigged to respond to nothing but pressure and polarization. That’s not a sign of strength—it’s a symptom of dysfunction. Yes, in the current model, outrage is often the only way to break through the noise. But that just shows how deeply broken the structure is if the only way to get attention is through anger and mass agitation. You're not wrong that it's effective in the short term—but it keeps everyone locked in a cycle of crisis and reaction, where meaningful reform is traded for spectacle, and collective energy is spent managing fires lit by the system itself.

What I’m arguing for isn’t the absence of outrage—it’s the creation of a new framework where it’s no longer the only fuel available. In Syncrotocracy, legitimacy doesn’t rise from outrage or wealth—it rises from emotional resonance, accountability, and community alignment. The goal isn't to suppress people’s passion but to redirect it into systems that can absorb and act on it without distortion. Under current systems, outrage often gets hijacked, commercialized, or used as justification for crackdowns. In a healthier architecture of power, you don’t need to scream to be heard—and no one has enough money to drown out everyone else.

So yes, outrage plays a role—but if that’s all a system responds to, it’s not a democracy, it’s a pressure cooker waiting to explode. What we need is not more fuel for that fire—we need to rebuild the damn kitchen.

Bernie Sanders has been effective at riling people up, no doubt—he’s tapped into very real anger about inequality, exploitation, and the erosion of public trust in government. But the problem is, he stops at outrage. His entire platform revolves around pointing to who's to blame—billionaires, corporations, "the 1%"—and while there's truth to the claim that extreme wealth concentration is a systemic issue, simply blaming them doesn’t build a vision. It doesn't show us how to reconstruct power—it just tells us who to resent.

What does he really expect to accomplish by naming villains without designing new systems? People get angry, they march, they post, they vote—and then what? The gears of the machine keep grinding, because there’s no real alternative architecture being presented. No blueprint. Just noise. That’s not a revolution. That’s a pressure valve.

Real change doesn’t come from assigning guilt—it comes from inviting people into something bigger than anger. And that’s where Sanders, for all his passion, falls short. He's a voice of frustration in a broken system, but he’s not offering a genuine escape route from that system. We need more than a diagnosis. We need a design.

Nowadays, most children are exposed to pornography on the internet.

That doesn’t mean that they should be exposed to inappropriate content and religious indoctrination in school. My son is 14 now. I’d let him read the Bible if he wanted to. We’ve already had a lot of conversations about it. He tends to be interested in it from a secular standpoint. I wouldn’t have been okay with him reading it a couple years ago and certainly not in school without my permission. There’s too much harmful BS in there centered on gender, sex, and consent especially.

Except the right wants porn outlawed (it's part of Project 2025).

The Bible, as practiced by conservative Americans, is summed up in one sentence: "Be sexually frigid or burn in hell"

Well, they could read the Book of Mormon. Lots of violence. No sex. Boring as Hell.

Isn't The Mirror basically a tabloid?

I am inclined to take all this with a grain of salt

https://thetexan.news/issues/education/ ... 9d2e6.html

The Bible is back.

https://www.amarillo.com/story/news/202 ... 174252007/

Amarillo? They're fascist, even by Texas standards. The whole Panhandle is. Google "Roberts County, Texas", and you'll see what I mean.

You're relying on moving goalposts, likely because you lack a serious argument.

What is our goalpost?

The initial argument was over whether or not the sexual content of the bible is appropriate for children.

kokopelli has pivoted towards his life on the farm, as though that's relevant.

Additionally, it's essentially the but I turned out fine argument, which is questionable.

no adult content should be anywhere near kids, and it’s illegal for a reason in most countries. That’s the weird part when it comes to the Bible though. It’s been around for centuries, and up until fairly recently, I always thought the more explicit stuff had either been censored or at least kept out of reach for kids by the church or religious institutions.

But now it’s just handed out without any kind of content warning, even though parts of it include war, sexual violence, murder, and all kinds of stuff we’d normally slap a huge age rating on if it were in a movie or game. I get that it’s considered sacred by a lot of people, but it’s strange how it doesn’t go through the same scrutiny as other media.

Historically the church kind of acted as the “age gate,” deciding which bits people actually saw or read, and most kids were only ever exposed to the nice, simplified versions. But now, with full access everywhere, it’s weird that no one really questions whether it’s age-appropriate anymore. Not saying ban it—just think we should be consistent. Just one of my thoughts on an objective multi linear viewpoint.. I'll bow out of the conversation now.