• irotsoma@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    It’s a “book of wisdom” like “She lusted after lovers with genitals as large as a donkey’s and emissions like those of a horse.” Nothing sexual there…🤣

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      My real questions come from the idea of who has a kid that checks a Bible out from their school? If they are religious I would assume they have copies at church, and at home. (Also free on the internet, it’s one of the few books easy to access)

      So are we expecting that these kids are wanting to check the Bible out for a research project? Which wouldn’t be allowed in most classes… or that they can’t afford lunch so they are reading about the suffering of Jesus and slaves when they otherwise would get lunch?

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        Doesn’t need to be checked out to read it. I used to go to the public library and read for hours. Not in school, but the city library I mean. I could imagine a kid that doesn’t want to go home or has free study periods reading books on their own.

      • insufferableninja@sh.itjust.works
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        one of the honors-level English classes at my high school in Texas in the 90s was “the bible as literature”. they had Bibles in the library for that class