Wait, I thought these guys were against indoctrinating children or whatever?
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Pretty clear they wrote the requirement to fit some recently hacked up version as opposed to the one hacked up by king james.
The article states they hacked it up 2900 times at least before this one. 30k different Christian sects in the U.S. last I knew
I'm sure its more than that. The really perverse thing about that is all the people that are super sure their particular flavor is right and everyone else is wrong. Its the old thing about what is a cult and what is a religion? A cult is a small unpopular religion and a religion is a large popular cult.
That is pretty messed up.
Why would any school want a Bible that doesn't also have the Declaration and Constitution? It's a perfectly logical requirement, and it's not Trump's fault so few others are making them.
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So do these bibles omit all of the text and stories in the normal Bible that would qualify them for book bannings?
To be fair, the average readers just interpret the word as is convenient to their own ends, so...