Oklahoma's top education official has ordered schools in the state to begin incorporating the Bible into lessons, in the latest US cultural flashpoint over religion in the classroom. A directive sent by Republican state Superintendent Ryan Walters said the rule was compulsory, requiring "immediate and strict compliance".
It comes a week after Louisiana's governor signed a law directing all public schools in that state to display the Ten Commandments. In a statement on Thursday, Mr Walters described the Bible as "an indispensable historical and cultural touchstone".
"Teach it completely sans any religious dogma"
That's pretty much how I learned it in public school.
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