Bible banned from Texas schools for being sexually explicit

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Whether parents choose to have it in the home or not, it’s still not appropriate for school. Many passages in the Bible are not appropriate for children. Some parts are sexually explicit; others condone or even encourage various forms of violence, including sexual violence, all in the name of God. Religious texts should be kept out of schools for that reason. There are too many ways that kids could be harmed by them. It would be cool if there could be a class that taught how to read the Bible, but I don’t foresee that happening in the US any time soon.

I'm Christian as f**k and Catholic as f**k, but I can't help but be amused by this.

No, I am not in favor of censoring LGBTQ and queer books in schools. Bible is definitely more sexually explicit than are LGBTQ books for kids... I recall in "family altar" as a kid, accidentally reading the passage in Deuteronomy that described how much genital touching there needed to be before it was considered sex. (Or something. I actually forget what the point of that passage was, other than it was actually pretty explicit.)

Such “Bible classes” are about indoctrination NOT education.

I do think there's poor religious education versus good religious education.

If I had my druthers, religious education insofar as the goal is to teach children how to practice a religion, would dive into academic study and the why's of why said religion teaches what it does. Or at least equip kids who wish to learn on how to do so.

I was homeschooled, and the curriculum we used in highschool, I feel had a lot of good points in terms of studying Christianity and pointers on how to delve deeper into that. (An assload of reading various books was involved, including books on logical thinking and fallacies to avoid.)

Also if I had my druthers, no religion whatsoever in a public school. Keep it to private schools or at home.

Homeschooling is... not for everyone, but can be a good option. I scored well on standardized testing from the state, and got an honors scoring in two subjects when I graduated. (I'm convinced homeschooling was the best thing for my undiagnosed AuDHD, honestly. When I was in traditional schooling, I had a lot of issues and teachers told my mom I needed "extra attention".)

I homeschooled, too. I “graduated” high school with just a basic arithmetic knowledge of math. I bought some books before taking placement tests for college, including Algebra 1 and 2 for Dummies. I ended up doing quite well and even ended up tutoring math in college. It was hard getting to that point, though. I had to do a lot of cramming before and during college to get to where I needed to be. Science was a problem as well. Sometimes I wonder if I would’ve went into a science-related field if my background would’ve been more conducive for it.

I guess my thing is, as a religious person, if I believe God exists and I follow an organized religion around it, and I believe that following this religion is critically important... yeah, duh, I'm going to teach my kids to follow my religion.

But I'm also going to equip them to study and learn and delve deeper for themselves, or try to. (Hypothetically speaking... I'm aroace. I'm not interested in marriage, and I don't want children.) If they leave the faith once they have the capacity to think for themselves, that's entirely their choice and one I'd respect.

I went to public school in elementary school except in 4th grade. I think we mostly got cheap books out of a homeschool catalogue that year. I remember an entertaining math workbook that had a Bible verse on every page and idiotic math problems involving Jesus and his disciples.

In middle school, my parents borrowed books from the public school, and I tried to teach myself out of those. My mom was into the unschooling method of homeschooling…sort of. No instruction from my parents or anyone else went on. I spent most of those years reading Dickens and other Victorian novels. Well, I played video games and roamed the woods, too.

In high school, I did the American School program. At the time, it was a correspondence school that worked solely through the mail. They sent me books and tests. I did the readings, took the tests, which were entirely open-book, mailed them in, and they graded them. That was it. Their algebra book was so bad I decided that I couldn’t teach myself algebra. I even thought that I was bad at math - a notion that was reinforced by my family - and decided to switch to basic math. It turns out I am good at math. I found that out in college. I just needed to be taught or, at least, to have decent books.