State’s bid cites requirements that $60 Trump-endorsed God Bless the USA Bible appears to be tailor-made to meet
Oklahoma’s top education official is seeking to buy 55,000 Bibles for public schools and specifying that each copy contain the Declaration of Independence and US constitution, which are not commonly found in Bibles but are included in one endorsed by former president Donald Trump.
The request is part of Republican state superintendent Ryan Walters’ ongoing efforts to require Bibles in every classroom, which has been met with resistance by some of Oklahoma’s largest school districts.
Walters is seeking to spend $3m in state funds for Bibles that fit a certain criteria, including that the pages are supplemented with US historical materials. The Bibles must also be “bound in leather or leather-like material for durability”, according to state bidding documents posted this week.
I called it once they announced the bible thing lmao:
https://sh.itjust.works/comment/14286107
It’s such a transparent grift I just can’t.
55k would make one helluva beautiful bonfire
I really would rather my taxes not go to dipshit Donald or geriatric Joe. There are roads that need fixing and libraries that need funding.
it doesn’t matter how the books are printed or bound…
THIS is the problem:
spend $3m in state funds for Bibles
The point is the requirements have been tailored so that they aren’t just buying bibles for schools (already bad), but their only option meeting the requirements will be the Trump one.
Okay not Christian but isn’t this heresy?
the source material is all created and editted by men under orders from the king of england at the time. inasmuch as it was a royal effort i suppose it could be considered heretical but not in an ecclesiastical sense
At this point in history … the only legimate way to be a Christian is to just say you’re one. It’s about the only criteria anyone goes by now.
It used to mean something a hundred years ago … it doesn’t mean much any more
It’s about the only criteria anyone goes by now
as opposed to what?
As opposed to actually practicing being kind to your neighbor. Stuff like that.
When in the entire hostory of Christianity was that ever the metric?
Invading jerusalem, burning witches, stuff like that.
:-)
Deus vult intensifies.
pretty sure there have always been, probably always will be, people who say “i’m christian” just because that’s what they’re supposed to say.
“i’m christian” has literally never made someone a good person just because they slapped that label on themself. if anything, if someone is one of those “i’d be a bad person if not for religion,” then that person is still not a good person
actually believing in the religion’s stuff
What a weird, sad, loser Ryan Walters is.
Man the United States really IS a shithole third world now.
The 3rd world country with a Gucci belt*
*knockoff Gucci belt from Temu
He does know that Trump isn’t going to pay him the kickback promised for this deal, right?
Well, he’s Trump. He’s like the anti-Lannister. A Trump never pays his debts.
Well it’s a cult, so I doubt any kickback was promised.
I heard it has a copy of the constitution/bill of rights in it, missing amendments 11 - 17, because a lot of those prevent his coup, and allow for his prosecution.
Those morons probably get the Ten Commandments and the Amendments confused if they’re missing that many.
It’s not that they cut any in particular, they just only included the Bill of Rights, which isn’t uncommon when pairing them with the Constitution. Not defending them, still a grift going on here, but that particular detail isn’t as nefarious as some people want to think. At least, not on its own.
What a waste of money.
Thank god no kids are getting fed at school with that money!
-Republicans, presumably
The shipments of the Koran and Torah are on the way too, right?
And the Satanic Bible of course. And Nietzsche for the atheist philosophers, prose and poetic eddas for us heathens, some text or another for Wicca, and a Latin edition of Ars Goetia… right? No? Then I smell religious favoritism worthy of the supreme court.
Walters in June ordered public schools to incorporate the Bible into lessons for grades five through 12. The bidding documents also specify that the Bibles include both the Old Testament and New Testament, the Pledge of Allegiance and the Bill of Rights.
Seems like it’s time to publish an annotated Bible that meets the criteria and costs much less than Trump’s bible.
Spread the word!
They thought of that and don’t allow any other commentary in the book, otherwise I could see a great opportunity for the satanic temple to get into book publishing.
Hmm, going to need to review the bidding documents, but I’m sure we can find an opportunity to make him regret being so specific.
Edit: After reading the bidding documents, there’s a number of opportunities for malicious compliance. They don’t specify a size, a language, or anything more than the contents. So it might be tempting to make one that’s floormat sized or printed in a font that fits on a single page of water-soluble paper bound in leatherette.
But I think the better thing would just be to print the books as requested. Make a KJV Bible with the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, and whatever other bullshit they asked for, get it printed exactly to spec, and do it for a fraction of the cost of the Trump bible. It won’t coat $55 to produce them, and then Oklahoma won’t be able to justify spending a premium to buy from Trump.
Then donate all of the money to actual education programs.
This comes out to $55/book. Outrageous!
Every single word of this is horribly disappointing. Even words like ‘the’ and ‘an’ are ashamed to be associated with this story. Jesus wept.
I love the article, it involves the highest to the lowest levels and touches on religious hypocrisy, corruption, ass kissing. Basically every defining aspect of the republican way of life plays a role in such a tiny little story.
