Oklahomaā€™s state superintendent on Thursday directed all public schools to teach the Bible, including the Ten Commandments, in the latest conservative push testing the boundaries between religious instruction and public education.

The superintendent, Ryan Walters, who is a Republican, described the Bible as an ā€œindispensable historical and cultural touchstoneā€ and said it must be taught in certain grade levels.

The move comes a week after LouisianaĀ became the first stateĀ to mandate that public schools display the Ten Commandments in every classroom, which was quickly challenged in court. The Oklahoma directive could also be challenged and is likely to provoke the latest tangle over the role of religion in public schools, an issue that has increasingly taken on national prominence.

  • NABDad@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Iā€™m not Catholic, but canā€™t you just make regular jello, and then have the priest bless it?

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      4 months ago

      Honestly no idea. My only knowledge of Catholicism comes from Dogma. But George Carlin did bless his golf clubs, so if that holds true for jello, then yeah. Lol