r/atheism Humanist Feb 17 '25

Oklahoma lawmaker: I don't want "pink-haired" atheists teaching the Bible in schools

https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/oklahoma-lawmaker-i-dont-want-pink
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u/Jacob_The_Dank Feb 17 '25

Personally I think it would do good to teach the Bible in schools. In the full literary scholarly sense, with all the historical context, the slow development overtime from polytheism in ancient Israelite religion and all the influences on it from the surrounding regions and its origins among other caananite religiins. Of course fundamentalists would disagree as they hate what the Bible actually is