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Oklahoma Spends Millions on Bibles for Schools, Sparking Civil Rights Investigation (truthout.org)

submitted 4 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/usa@midwest.social

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Critics argue it violates church-state separation and harms students’ rights.

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[–] Spitzspot@lemmings.world 41 points 4 days ago (2 children)

55,000 Trump bibles at $60 each is $3.3 million of Oklahoma tax payer dollars.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I dunno. Hopefully, they're getting 7-year textbook quality binding and stuff. But $60 is kinda steep for a text that's in the public domain.

(At least it might be in the public domain... Which translation is the government sanctioned one, anyway? Translations can be copyrighted.)

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

King James of course.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Yeah. $60 is pretty steep for KJV. There are better translations available, but KJV would at least integrate better with the kind of British literature I had to read in school.

For a lot of that stuff, you have to know your Bible stories to understand it, and if you didn't hear those at a religious institution, you were at a disadvantage.

[–] NJSpradlin@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Bulk rate and shipping costs, though?