Oklahoma forces the Bible on students, as Christian nationalism digs in
A little more than a week after Louisiana passed a law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in schools—prompting some wags to point out how few Republicans have apparently even read them—Oklahoma is getting in on the Christofascist funsies.
Ryan Walters, the state’s superintendent of public instruction, announced on Thursday that all state schools will be required to incorporate the Bible and the Ten Commandments into their curricula. Specifically, fifth- through 12th-grade teachers will be forced to both keep a Bible in their classrooms and teach from it.
The reason? Well, the Bible is history, of course. Especially the part about an old dude building a giant boat and putting two of all the world’s millions of species on it so God doesn’t drown them all in a fit of pique. That’s history, man—like the story about Julius Caesar inventing the Orange Julius, or FDR storming the beaches of Normandy on his Jet Ski.