Jesus removed from Texas Bibles

[Mikeystyle]

The Texas Board of Education announced Monday that it will order new Bibles for Texas schools that remove all references to Jesus on the grounds that his teachings are “too liberal” for the classroom. The changes will likely impact Bibles sold throughout the U.S. because Texas buys more Bibles than any other state.

The board approved the changes in a 10 to 5 party-line vote with unanimous support from Republicans. Dr. Don McLeroy, a dentist and leader of the board’s conservative faction, said the changes were approved without any input from theologians, in keeping with the board’s practice of editing schoolbooks on its own and ignoring experts.

“I know there’s folks who will say we in Texas have no business teaching religion in the classroom, well frankly a bunch of ignorant zealots like us have no business meddling with textbooks either but that’s didn’t stop us from doing so,” McLeroy said. “Here in the republic of Texas we don’t give a lick what the rest of the country thinks, unless of course we need federal money or help with stuff like hurricanes.”

While the move to strike Jesus from the Bible took some board members by surprise, McLeroy said it was important to restore a sense of conservative balance to what he called “an awfully preachy book.”

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http://www.thechicagodope.com/2010/07/12/jesus-removed-from-texas-bibles/

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Jesus chased the Money Lenders from The Temple.

Guess I can understand the censorship.

[Drale]

2. Is their a reality show secretly taping?

Who can be the first to jump off the end of the right wing? Next they are going to say the internet is to liberal because of the free exchange of ideas, and ban that from schools. Bet the Vatican steps in on this one, and even though they have lost alot of their power, they are still rather powerful since they are their own country.

[Fresh_Start]

3. Also Jesus stoned to death at value voters summit

http://www.thechicagodope.com/2010/09/20/jesus-stoned-to-death-at-%E2%80%98values-voters%E2%80%99-summit/
Thank you for a new delectable site.

[smirkymonkey]

4. Um, I'm no religious scholar or anything, but isn't Jesus the

whole reason Christianity came about in the first place?

WTF kind of Christianity is this anyway? :banghead:

[Goblinmonger]

6. pssst

I think it's satire.

ETA: I made this post before I went to the link. The slogan "Never true. Always accurate." would be a give-away that it is satire.

[smirkymonkey]

8. See, that's how whacked out I think they are - I actually believed

they would do something like that. Also, I admit, I didn't open the link. I was too shocked by the initial proposal to go any further.

I say, give it a year or two. This might turn out to be prescience instead of satire.

[howaboutme]

5. Thanks- This excerpt will go directly to my R/W Republican friends

who consistently bombard me with bullshit email fabrications that wingnuts take as gospel but are total BS fabrications generated directly by the GOP Office of Misinformation.

Pay back can be wonderful.

[Goblinmonger]

7. One of the comments links to this article

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34270487/

That makes a similar claim for reals.

The project, an online effort to create a Bible suitable for contemporary conservative sensibilities, claims Jesus' quote is a disputed addition abetted by liberal biblical scholars, even if it appears in some form in almost every translation of the Bible.
The project's authors argue that contemporary scholars have inserted liberal views and ahistorical passages into the Bible, turning Jesus into little more than a well-meaning social worker with a store of watered-down platitudes.

Isn't that kind of what Hitler was saying except delete "liberal" and add "jewish"?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

9. I know lots of people who obsess on Jeebus rather than THINK.

FACT: We don't know if Yeshua ben Yusef actually lived or not.

Not satire. Fact.

[piratefish08]

10. guys?

it's satire.