Oklahoma Bible mandate challenged in Court

martin said:
I wasn’t a believer myself even as a kid but I remember feeling a kind of wonder at the inspiration that had empowered this amazing writing
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Me too. I still have the Lutheran Bible my parents gave me when I turned 11. I also have my uncle's JKV Bible inscribed to him by his Sunday School teacher in 1929.

The Bible has not only beautiful poetry, but wisdom as well. I can follow the wisdom and teachings without being a Christian or a Jew.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Me too. I still have the Lutheran Bible my parents gave me when I turned 11. I also have my uncle's JKV Bible inscribed to him by his Sunday School teacher in 1929.

The Bible has not only beautiful poetry, but wisdom as well. I can follow the wisdom and teachings without being a Christian or a Jew.
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Agreed 100%. Humanity would be best served by learning from all ancient wisdom. Those who push a "holier than thou" attitude, be it ISIS or the MAGAts, are part of the problem, not part of the solution.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Me too. I still have the Lutheran Bible my parents gave me when I turned 11. I also have my uncle's JKV Bible inscribed to him by his Sunday School teacher in 1929.

The Bible has not only beautiful poetry, but wisdom as well. I can follow the wisdom and teachings without being a Christian or a Jew.
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There is no 'Lutheran Bible', idiot. They usually use the NKJV and KJV, but some also use the ESV and others the NASB.
 
The KJV is one of the great classics of English literature. The development of the English language between Chaucer's time and Shakespeare's is expressed in it, for one. It should be studied for its historical significance alone.
 
EdwinA said:
The KJV is one of the great classics of English literature. The development of the English language between Chaucer's time and Shakespeare's is expressed in it, for one. It should be studied for its historical significance alone.
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Not by sixth graders.

The kind of elaborate and antiquated Elizabethean English used by Shakespeare and the KJV should be studied in college.

If Oklahoma Bible thumpers actually cared about sixth graders getting anything meaningful out of the Bible, they would have used taxpayer money to purchase widely available translations in contemporary English, like the ubiquitous and hugely popular NIV translation.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
Me too. I still have the Lutheran Bible my parents gave me when I turned 11. I also have my uncle's JKV Bible inscribed to him by his Sunday School teacher in 1929.

The Bible has not only beautiful poetry, but wisdom as well. I can follow the wisdom and teachings without being a Christian or a Jew.
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Dutch Uncle said:
Agreed 100%. Humanity would be best served by learning from all ancient wisdom. Those who push a "holier than thou" attitude, be it ISIS or the MAGAts, are part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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All of the writings about ethics in western civilization for the last two thousand years have basically just been footnotes to the sermon on the mount, the Decalogue, the parable of the good Samaritan, and the commandment to practice universal love.
 
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