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the kids think learning about the bible in AP LITERATURE is forced conversion, we’re cooked
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Just because the Bible has a ton of useful allegories doesn’t mean I want to read and analyze it for school. This goes without saying for all religious texts. I don’t want to read them. Feels like forced conversion.
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Anonymous 15w

like i am a full-throated atheist. THAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT NARRITIVE IN HUMAN HISTORY. IT HAS DRIVEN SO MANY SIGNIFICANT HISTORICAL EVENTS. SMALL TRANSLATION QUIRKS CAUSE FUCKING WARS. and you think ANALYZING that is FORCED CONCERSION?!

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Anonymous 15w

Religious texts should never be required reading in schools. It is extremely disrespectful to those of other religions or those who have suffered abuse at the hands of the church, often using those verses as weapons. Beyond that it is up to the parent and child to decide whether to read that text.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 15w

My guy there is literally no way to interface with history that does not involve discussing religions and their beliefs. The mistake you’re making is treating holy texts as PURE fiction. To be clear, I agree that they are fictitious. I’m in the minority there. People make real decisions based off of these texts. Hell, the Bible is STILL A MAJOR ELECTORAL FORCE IN THIS COUNTRY TO THIS DAY. It would be a *disservice* to a student to pretend like that doesn’t exist.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 15w

Especially in a COLLEGE level course?! Like damn if you aren’t mature enough to get over your own personal aversion to religious texts in order to analyze their impact on the world don’t take the fuckin course

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 15w

“Discussing religions and their beliefs” and allowing the analysis of holy texts are two extremely different things. Teaching the text itself invites teachers to insert their personal biases, whether on purpose or not, and there is little to no oversight in public schools to prevent that from happening. If they can’t stop teachers from creeping on kids, I have zero faith or confidence they could bar a teacher from influencing their students view on religion.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 15w

Onto your second point, I made no assertion about the reality of the text. I simply said that it has been weaponized against many peoples and therefore shouldn’t be required text as that is disrespectful to those people which it hurt. You can teach about the impact of the book, you can teach common allegories or point out what it influences, but no secular academia requires the deconstruction and study of a religious text.

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