Kentucky Tea Party governor blames Charlottesville violence on lack of Bibles in schools

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Kentucky Tea Party governor blames Charlottesville violence on lack of Bibles in schools
Bob Brigham BOB BRIGHAM 19 AUG 2017 AT 16:15 ET

Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin raised eyebrows when he told a conservative talk radio personalty that a lack of Bibles in schools is responsible for the white nationalist violence in Charlottesville.

West Virginia radio host Tom Roten asked the Kentucky Republican about a controversial bill he signed allowing the Bible to be taught in public schools.

“When you go back a couple of hundred years, in most instances the only textbooks that were in our public schools were in the Bible,” Bevin claimed.

“And it’s interesting that the more we’ve removed any sense of spiritual obligation or moral higher authority or absolute right and wrong, the more we’ve removed things that are biblically taught from society, the more we’ve seen the kind of mayhem that we were just discuss,” he continued.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/kentucky-tea-party-governor-blames-charlottesville-violence-on-lack-of-bibles-in-schools/

[VMA131Marine]

1. Because let's teach math and science from the Bible

There is no way that bill he signed is constitutional. I'm guessing he would have a cow if somebody suggested teaching the Torah, the Koran, or the Baghavad Gita in schools.

[exboyfil]

2. The county that has one of the highest violent crime rates

in West Virginia is one that still has a mandated Bible class.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/a-popular-public-school-bible-class-in-west-virginia-faces-legal-challenge/2017/04/23/14c50460-2144-11e7-ad74-3a742a6e93a7_story.html?utm_term=.3052522b7515

https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/wv/princeton/crime

https://www.roadsnacks.net/most-dangerous-cities-in-west-virginia/

[atreides1]

3. A couple of hundred years!

That would be 1817, when slavery was a booming business, women had few rights, and blacks in Kentucky had almost none at all!

I think Governor Bevin is sending a very clear message to his white supremacists supporters!!!

[thucythucy]

4. "When you go back a couple of hundred years"

African Americans were slaves, women couldn't vote and were considered the property of their husbands, fathers, brothers, gay people were routinely murdered...

Yeah, having the Bible as "the only textbooks that were in our public schools" was so effective in stopping racist, sexist, homophobic violence.

[exboyfil]

5. Here is a list of 19th century textbooks

http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?c=nietz;page=browse;key=date

[JDC]

6. Quite the opposite

[King_Klonopin]

7. Good point ! Maybe he could introduce these concepts to the White Nationalists and Nazis:

He said to them: “You are well aware that it is against our law for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile. But God has shown me that I should not call anyone impure or unclean. (Acts 10:28)

"Love your neighbor as yourself" (Levi 19:18; Matt 19:19, 22:39, Mark 12:31, 12:33; Luke 10:27; Romans 13.9; Galatians 5:14; James 2:8) this one seems to be an important concept.

If any one says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot love God whom he has not seen. (1 John 4:20)

The Lord examines the righteous, but the wicked, those who love violence, he hates with a passion. (Psalm 11:5)

“Do not oppress a foreigner; you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners, because you were foreigners in Egypt. (Exodus 23.9)

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God. (Matt 5.9)

Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place. (Jeremiah 22:3)

The counter-protesters (i.e. leftists and liberals) are already down with this sorta stuff.