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That dude is a complete piece of shit. I live in Oklahoma. I hate his fucking face. The Bible is not “history.” It a fictional document. Teach it as literature if you want, but they will likely be presenting the material as fact.
Don't teach it as anything to fucking fifth graders though. That is just not appropriate at that reading level.
But apparently it is in Oklahoma now.
I would say nearing the end of high school at the earliest if you want to be able to teach the Bible as literature. It might even not be grade school appropriate at all and should just be taught on the college level.
After all, unless you're teaching it dishonestly, you'll want to cover translation issues, which would require a lot of reading and analysis.
Gosh these Republicans can never resist an opportunity to groom children.
"So you see class, Samson was actually an allegory reframing the collapse of a Philistinian Great Hall as a fairy tale that justifies a schizophrenic's mass murder of persecutors."
I can work with this.
Only for those children who have been Washed In The Blood™ of the Lord Jesus Christ and accepted Him as their one true savior.
Heathen children, blasphemers, and oh yes the Jews will be consigned to the pit of hellfire to anguish in torment for all eternity. As the Bible clearly teaches. Probably.
Worst, it's revisionist pseudohistory mixed with fiction and delusion. Well there is some archaeological evidence that corroborates some of the more grounded contents, and some of it is relevant to ancient culture and genealogy, it's all mixed up with superstitious nonsense, magic, justifications for what we would now consider crimes against humanity, hyperbole, hallucinations, and code used to bad mouth authorities without getting executed. That last part is the entirety of the Book of Revelation.
It is possible to sift some facts out of it, but it's far easier to either take it at face value, or cherry pick the parts you like. That's what they do with it today, and honestly I would just do anything to make the entire concept of religion just evaporate from human consciousness.