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Wired Differently's avatar

So, Texas librarians can start cataloging the Bible as fiction now, right? And the right wing propaganda can go in the fiction shelves too, right? 😡

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LJ57's avatar

Evangelicals have fun trying to explain the contradictions within the Bible. They could work for Cirque du Soleil with those gymnastics.

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Lesly Harder's avatar

There aren’t words that describe my disgust that this can be done..how can there be so many people that don’t care about the truth?

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Janine Gwaltney's avatar

There aren't very many of them, but a few can cause a whole lot of damage.

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Tracey's avatar

It is fiction, it’s parables and tales told during a time when people were ignorant about many things.

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Judith Swink (CA)'s avatar

No it is not fiction, it is a documented history which includes parables, simple stories illustrating a moral or religious lesson. That is why the Library of Congress and numerous others classify the book as nonfiction. Your comment about people who "were ignorant of many things" demonstrates your own lack of knowledge of the history of Native American tribes.

I'm guessing that you are unaware, for example, of the influence that some Native American governance structures had substantial influence on the content of the U.S. Constitution. The following article is from JStor, a digital source which makes available articles from scholarly (i.e. not "popular literature") publications.

https://daily.jstor.org/the-native-american-roots-of-the-u-s-constitution/

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Tracey's avatar

I was talking about the Bible.

My daughter is Native American.

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