Friday, October 04, 2024

'Trump Bible' One of Few that Meet Criteria for Oklahoma Classrooms

The Oklahoman finds that there are few bibles, besides the 'Trump Bible', that fit the written criteria for mandated classroom bibles in Oklahoma. "Bids opened Monday for a contract to supply the state Department of Education with 55,000 Bibles. According to the bid documents, vendors must meet certain specifications: Bibles must be the King James Version; must contain the Old and New Testaments; must include copies of the Pledge of Allegiance, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights; and must be bound in leather or leather-like material," the Oklahoman reports.

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Can you say, "Let's dumb down the students".
I knew you could.

-The GOP.

They don't like questions, just easy to read
fake answers and nice stories. That's a good little hamster.
Now climb on your wheel...

#1 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-10-04 11:14 AM

"Let's dumb down the students"

Crap like this will never hurt any kind who is curious and ikes to read,

And so, and of course, MAGA attacks libraries and librarians.

As MAGA will officially track menstrual periods, they will also officially track book purchases.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2024-10-04 11:25 AM

Why the hell would the country's founding documents be included in bible. And which version of the pledge, the original without 'under god' in it? These are for the 'originalists' aren't they?

And the bigger question is why is the bible in public schools. As a work of literature it ain't that great. Why King James version?

This is just a judicial system test.

#3 | Posted by MBlue at 2024-10-04 11:31 AM

Here in Okiehomie this guy is hated more than any teen girls dark skinned boyfriend. He is clearly angling to be education secretary in a new Trump administration and reign of terror. If Der Dotard is not elected Walters will be impeached in the coming year.

How did he get elected in the first place? Almost 80% of GOP voters here vote straight ticket (yes, it's still possible here). And the locals are so dumb they can't figure out the reason why they voted for such an awful person ...

#4 | Posted by catdog at 2024-10-04 11:53 AM

Those are some oddly specific specifications...that seem to match the Trump Bible exactly.

It's almost as if these specifications were created precisely for the purpose of....nah. Couldn't be.

#5 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-10-04 12:08 PM

Can you say "pay off" boys and girls?

I knew that you could.

#6 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-10-04 12:12 PM

"According to the Bible, dinosaurs must have been created by God on the sixth day of creation. Genesis 1:24 says, "And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so."

The sixth day of creation was also the day when God created people (Genesis 1:26-27). Therefore, dinosaurs and people must have lived together on the earth at one time."

www.morrowcountysentinel.com

Saddles are generally made from leather made from the skins of cattle. My question is how many cattle have to be skinned to make one good, comfortable dinosaur saddle?

That question assumes that if diosaurs and people existed at the same time then cattle did too.

I will say this though; I believe the Trump Bible just as much as I believe any other Bible but "God Bless the USA Bible," which is inspired by country singer Lee Greenwood's patriotic ballad the inclusion of Lee Greenwood's ballad "God Bless the USA, makes it far funnier than any other Bible!

#7 | Posted by danni at 2024-10-04 12:38 PM

Well low and behold, there's only ONE Bible currently 'in print' which meets this exact specification, the so-called 'Trump Bible', from which Donald Trump is personally paid a 'royalty' for every copy sold. Gee, how convenient.

OCU

#8 | Posted by OCUser at 2024-10-04 12:57 PM

This smells very Mein Kampfy

#9 | Posted by truthhurts at 2024-10-04 01:16 PM

christofascism

#10 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2024-10-04 01:36 PM

#7 | Posted by danni

My aunts told me there were never dinosaurs and all those skeletons are just the devil's work to make us doubt Gawd.

#11 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2024-10-04 01:41 PM

@#3 ... Why the hell would the country's founding documents be included in bible. ...

That was my first question when I read the article.

Why the conflation of the Country's important documents with a religious text?


#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-04 01:41 PM

Why the conflation of the Country's important documents with a religious text?

So the state can give taxpayer's money to Lewzer.

#13 | Posted by REDIAL at 2024-10-04 01:52 PM

Also on that vein... The King James version is a terrible thing to base anything on. I suggest anyone who is Christian check out "Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why" by Bart D. Ehrman

#14 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2024-10-04 01:53 PM

#12 | Posted by LampLighter

To better sell the country as "Christian".

#15 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2024-10-04 01:54 PM

just another money laundering scam to funnel more money to Trump.

#16 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2024-10-04 03:28 PM

"Why the conflation of the Country's important documents with a religious text?"

Oh come on! Surely he see Jesus Christ's signature on the Declaration of Independence! How else would we be sure this is a Christian nation?

#17 | Posted by danni at 2024-10-04 03:46 PM

Only the gullible buy Trump Bibles.

#18 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2024-10-04 03:59 PM

Does the orange pedo's bible include the flight logs from Lolita Express?

#19 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2024-10-04 04:01 PM

Only the gullible buy Trump Bibles."

You can't really be a trump Cult full member if you don't have the Gold Sneakers, watch, Medallion and Panties! The last item is free but only for carefully selected cult members!

#20 | Posted by danni at 2024-10-04 04:08 PM

Blasphemy?

#21 | Posted by Tor at 2024-10-04 04:28 PM

The contents of the "Trump Bible" are in the public domain and available for free. Requiring students (or school districts) to purchase that overpriced version is pure scumbaggery. No one is surprised.

#22 | Posted by anton at 2024-10-04 04:29 PM

Israel is the model.
Zionism is the model for this Christian Nationalism.
And the left is completely asleep as it continues to feed money and weaponry into the model.

#23 | Posted by NerfHerder at 2024-10-04 10:38 PM

All that stuff is available online.
No charge.

#24 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-10-05 06:53 AM

I've lived in Oklahoma, traveled around it, gotten to know the place fairly well, and I will venture an opinion that this bit of brazen MAGAt fookery is a stretch ... even for Oklahoma.

#25 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-10-05 06:57 AM

here's an answer for you dopes.

if you live there...move.

if you don't live there....shut the fk up.

--and there you do....I've solved yet another " problem" for you dopes..

#26 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2024-10-05 04:45 PM

#25 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis

According to new reporting by The Oklahoman, state Superintendent Ryan Walters opened bids to purchase 55,000 Bibles for schools. Interestingly, a Bible endorsed by Donald Trump, known as "Lee Greenwood's God Bless the U.S.A. Bible," is one of only two that fits the bill"and the other one is endorsed by his son, Donald Jr.

"If the Bibles cost $60 each, and the state buys 55,000, that's $3.3 million."

www.oklahoman.com

#27 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2024-10-05 06:22 PM

(They just happen to have to include all that other non-bible stuff only included in Trump & Trump Jr's bibles)

#28 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2024-10-05 06:23 PM

At least some of the MAGAts may read the Constitution for the first time since 6th grade.

They'll be loathe to discover there are MANY amendments (and maybe read the full text of the 2nd Amendment for the first time.)

#29 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2024-10-05 06:40 PM

Trump Bible?

So the antichrist has his own Bible?

The fat orange slob is literally guilty of all seven deadly sin.

Greed, pride, gluttony, lust, envy, wrath and sloth.

He's doing a magnificent job.

Hail Satan.

#30 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-10-05 06:46 PM

Hail Satan.

Pretty much.

#31 | Posted by tonyroma at 2024-10-05 06:57 PM

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