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Texas education leaders unveil Bible-infused elementary school curriculum (www.texastribune.org)

submitted 6 months ago by Stopthatgirl7 to c/atheism

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Elementary school curriculum proposed this week would infuse new state reading and language arts lessons with teachings on the Bible, marking the latest push by Texas Republicans to put more Christianity in public schools.

The Texas Education Agency released the thousands of pages of educational materials this week. They have been made available for public viewing and feedback and, if approved by the State Board of Education in November, will be available for public schools to roll out in August of 2025. Districts will have the option of whether to use the materials, but will be incentivized to do so with up to $60 per student in additional funding.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Genuinely looking forward to the Satanic Temple shenanigans over this one. A competing Satan infused curriculum would be fun

[+] DreamAccountant -17 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Fuck the satanic temple. It's supposed to be better when fake satanists argue with extremist christians inside schools? Fuck that, because that's fucking stupid.

Fight all religions, including stupid fucking satanists, stupid fucking noodle idiots, and stupid fucking jedi.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago

They've legitimately done a lot of good in the fight for freedom of/from religion and separation of church and state. I'm not sure what the argument is because even though I called it "shenanigans" their actions have had tangible effects in the fight against religious extremism so I would call it better at least then just letting the religious zealots have their way. There's a great Stuff You Should Know podcast episode about them and some of the work they've done if your interested

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The Satanic Temple is specifically only using religion and satanic themes to point out the double standards and combat them.

Religious institutions get all sorts of exemptions, get statues and displays on public grounds, get stuff posted in schools, etc, etc. So they said ok, then we are a religion also, so we do too.

Other than basically trolling religion to highlight the double standards their beliefs simply boil down to "be a decent human".

I think it's wonderful.

[–] halcyoncmdr 4 points 6 months ago

You clearly have done no research on the topic you're complaining about. I would recommend reading up on TST before making such vocal incorrect assumptions. You just show you have no idea what you're talking about.

[–] waz 3 points 6 months ago

They are the fight.

You sound pretty mad at people you are agreeing with.

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