Duncan, OK school teacher handing out bibles

[get_lives]

The teacher was sloppily trolling for her church. Very sloppily. Sloppy troll is sloppy.

Skillful trolls are never suspected. She is the opposite. She didn’t give this a lot of thought, no doubt.

[Superdude]

@drachillix

Babies happen the same way in all religions. I doubt we will find many cites to the contrary.

I did read a book where that exact thing happened. Boring book. Wordy and poorly thought-out. And talk about a preachy book. Everyone’s a sinner. Except for this Hispanic guy named Jesus.

@marshmallow

It’s hard to go through life without being handed a Bible or two. Good learning experience.

I don’t remember where I first heard the comedian who originated this bit do it, but I was inspired to recreate it when I was Christmas shopping a few years ago with the (now) ex-wife, and we were approached by someone handing out pocket New Testaments. As they handed it to me, I whipped out a pen, signed it, and said, “thank you, thank you. It’s always nice to meet a fan,” handed it back to them, as I continued to the car.

[Typo_Negative]

Teacher should fired, same as if she was asking students if they wanted Chick Tracts, Korans, Torahs, or Satanic Verses or applications to the Obama Fan Club.

Kids should get their religious indoctrination at home.

[Typo_Negative]

Good a place as any for the great Emo Phillips joke:

Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, “Don’t do it!” He said, “Nobody loves me.” I said, “God loves you. Do you believe in God?”

He said, “Yes.” I said, “Are you a Christian or a Jew?” He said, “A Christian.” I said, “Me, too! Protestant or Catholic?” He said, “Protestant.” I said, “Me, too! What franchise?” He said, “Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Baptist or Southern Baptist?” He said, “Northern Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist or Northern Liberal Baptist?”

He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist.” I said, “Me, too! Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region, or Northern Conservative Baptist Eastern Region?” He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region.” I said, “Me, too!”

Northern Conservative†Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1879, or Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912?" He said, “Northern Conservative Baptist Great Lakes Region Council of 1912.” I said, “Die, heretic!” And I pushed him over.

[Locrian]

The storybook should be banned to anyone under the age of 18. Only the available and misleading texts should be made available so the parents can still evily indoctrinate their offspring for confirmations, fist communion and bar/batmitzvahs. Then once 18, they should read the bible in its entirety, give reports on it, and watch the number of believers fall to almost no one, the now mature students reading the drivel and offended by page after page.

Hey, I can dream, can’t I??

[Robert163]

@DrDeth

That’s a super-slippery slope. First of all, Porno can be illegal, so sayth SCOTUS.

Next, the Bible is important historical literature, I took a upper level Univ class about quotes from the Bible. The KJV was a textbook for that class.

third grade???

[TBG]

Yet if she’d handed out condoms, everyone would probably be all “how dare you be upset about that”.

[Wile_E]

@TBG

Yet if she’d handed out condoms, everyone would probably be all “how dare you be upset about that”.

I think just about anyone would agree that handing out condoms in elementary school may not be the best idea.

[Left_Hand_of_Dorkness]

@TBG

Yet if she’d handed out condoms, everyone would probably be all “how dare you be upset about that”.

Bizarro World scenarios, where you condemn people for their hypocrisy in alternate universes, are always idiotic, but this one takes the cake. Are you fucking kidding me?

[silenus]

The scary thing is, he isn’t.

[John_Mace]

I went to Catholic school in 3rd grade and the nuns were always handing out condoms, along with rosary beads and saint cards.

[Tamex]

@Kimballkid

I remember when I was in grade school and they would let the Gideons come in and hand out bibles.

Me too, in the 80’s. Public school in Montana. Now that I think about it, that was really bizarre. Most of the kids took one (including me), and most of the kids treated it like a big joke.

@John_Mace

I went to Catholic school in 3rd grade and the nuns were always handing out condoms, along with rosary beads and saint cards.

Wait…what?

[Wile_E]

@John_Mace

I went to Catholic school in 3rd grade and the nuns were always handing out condoms, along with rosary beads and saint cards.

Either those were actually scapulars or you must have attended the most progressive Catholic school ever to have not existed.
:dubious:

[Freudian_Slit]

@drachillix

I doubt they would be the first…or the last.

To go home, get their dad drunk, and sleep with him?

[get_lives]

@Freudian_Slit

To go home, get their dad drunk, and sleep with him?

Good username/post combo

[Darth_Panda]

My catholic high school discussed birth control, STDs, and condom use in our health class (didn’t distribute condoms, though) - but that was in 12th grade, not third.

[Kimballkid]

@Tamex

Me too, in the 80’s. Public school in Montana. Now that I think about it, that was really bizarre. Most of the kids took one (including me), and most of the kids treated it like a big joke.

Hey neighbor!

Public school in South Dakota in the 70s.

[GrumpyBunny]

@Sitnam

Hope Satanists find out. Legal challenges take time, this crap stops the minute a Satanist shows and starts handing out material.

I wish they’d done that in my high school in Florida during Bible giveaway week.

Nobody listened when I asked exactly who the Bible-distributors were targeting. 95% of the students were dragged to church, Sunday School, and sometimes “Youth Group” every week.

[GrumpyBunny]

@Wile_E

I think just about anyone would agree that handing out condoms in elementary school may not be the best idea.

Third grade is a bit young.

Sixth grade…is not, for some students.

My mum taught 7th grade and up, and was fairly horrified when she read the notes kids are passing. Ah, the internet.

[Saint_Cad]

As for legality or what constitutes literature - that’s for the school board to decide. Every district I have worked at has had a list of banned books. You’re ok as long as the book is not on that list.