r/nottheonion • u/JeffRVA • 5d ago

Oklahoma state superintendent announces all schools must incorporate the Bible and the Ten Commandments in curriculums

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/27/us/oklahoma-schools-bible-curriculum/index.html
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u/AshuraBaron 5d ago

"Everyone should be forced to read the Bible and learn it's valuable lessons." - Man who hasn't read the Bible

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u/DeadPoster 5d ago

"The Bible is the most potent force for Atheism ever conceived." --Isaac Asimov

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u/jayydubbya 5d ago

I always liked “the only people who actually read the bible are atheists and priests.”

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u/Khavary 5d ago

you would be surprised by the amount of priests that are atheists

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u/jayydubbya 4d ago

Had an ex priest friend at my old job who quit because he wanted to bang women and told me there is no hell. Great guy miss him.

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u/Illfury 4d ago

In our core group, one of my friends is currently a Pastor. You wouldn't know that by playing with him though, that is for sure lol. Love that man to bits though. Good person.

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u/blacktothebird 4d ago

did he go to hell?

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u/Thomasduhtrain 3d ago

That could very much be an educated Priests position though.

To very poorly summarize entire centuries of theology. Early translations of the Gospels were pretty uniform on heaven for good people but terminology on what happened to the rest was mixed and sometimes contradicting.

Over centuries of debate and a lot of translations Hell as a concept was built and became popular belief. There's still some remnants though like clCatholic Limbo

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u/iMossa 4d ago

Friend of a friend liked religion and history enough too read it on University, though the only job he could get from that education was as a priest. So not hard too believe that there might be some atheist priests, even think Sweden might have an atheist field priest.