Keith D JohnsonJun 27, 2024
Upon learning that the #Oklahoma Superintendent of Schools intended to put bibles in every classroom to be used as text books, #JimWright quipped:

"Good Morning, Children. Please open your Bibles to Ezekiel 23:19-21.
"Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses.”
Your assignment is to ask your parents to help you write a 500 word essay on what you think that means. Illustrations optional."
Show threadNazani
@KeithDJohnson
I would go with something more about kids:
Numbers 31:17-18 King James Version (KJV)
Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Jun 28, 2024 at 3:26pmWeb
Show threadchrisJun 28, 2024
@Nazani @KeithDJohnson
Story time could be Genesis chapter 19, wherein the righteous Lot first
offers his virgin daughters up to a violent mob bent on gang rape, and later
ends up impregnating them while supposedly drunk.
Is that what fundamentalists mean when they talk about family values?
Show threadchrisJun 28, 2024
@Nazani @KeithDJohnson
And unfortunately the thinking behind those verses from Numbers is still with us. See, for instance, Washington state representative Matt Shea's manifesto, A Biblical Basis for War.