re: Texas may become first state to mandate Bible readings in public schools

When focusing on long-term, settled, or non-temporary labor migrants (e.g., permanent immigrants via family, humanitarian protection, economic pathways with residency rights, refugees granted status, etc.), the top destinations are high-income OECD countries and others with established integration systems:
1. United States — ~51–53 million foreign-born (mid-2025 estimates from Pew/Census, down slightly from a 2025 peak of ~53.3 million due to policy shifts). The vast majority are long-term or permanent: family reunification dominates new permanent inflows (~70–75% in recent OECD data), plus humanitarian (refugees/asylees), diversity visas, and employment-based with green cards. Even subtracting temporary workers/visas (e.g., H-1B, seasonal), the U.S. far exceeds others in settled migrants.
2. Germany — ~16–17 million foreign-born. Strong growth from family reunification, EU free movement, skilled/permanent labor pathways, and humanitarian (e.g., Syrians, Afghans, Ukrainians with protection status). Many transition to permanent residency.
3. United Kingdom — ~10–11 million. Primarily settled via family, work with indefinite leave to remain, EU historical ties (pre-Brexit), and humanitarian routes.
4. France — Similar range to the UK (~8–10 million), with large settled populations from former colonies, family migration, and asylum/integration pathways.
5. Canada — High per capita but absolute numbers in the 8–9 million range; known for permanent economic/family/humanitarian immigration programs.
Other notables:
• Russia — Significant numbers from former Soviet states, often long-term.
• Spain, Australia, and others rank high for settled migration.
• Refugee-heavy hosts (e.g., Turkey ~2.7–3 million mostly Syrians under temporary protection, Iran/Pakistan for Afghans, Colombia for Venezuelans) have large numbers, but these are often not fully “settled” in the same way as permanent residents in Western countries.

I’m a Christian. I raised my children in a Christian house and we attended church regularly.

Honestly, I just want the schools to teach reading, writing, math, science and history etc. I don’t need them to teach religion.
Any religion. Not mine, not Muslim, not Budism, not any of them. I also don’t want them pushing all the gender crap, homosexuality crap, or transgender crap. Just stick to educating. I can handle the rest.

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Texas may become first state to mandate Bible readings in public schools

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Should be required nationwide.

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How many people do you know is currently reading the bible?

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Three in my household alone.

My 16yr old son is going through a super read right now, literally hours a day. He’s not in parochial school either, it’s completely voluntary.

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How many people do you know is currently reading the bible?

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it’s unfair for me to answer this because I work at a church

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It's objectively a fantastic read, even if you have no interest in God.

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True.. but even better when you are a believer.

I start a fresh Bible after every complete read. I definitely am into marking up, highlighting, noting, bookmarking… each of my Bibles is different depending on when in life I read through. I love thumbing through the “older” ones and seeing what spoke to me then.

Every single time I’ve read through it was like reading something different… familiar but fresh. I can’t describe it. I love it and will never stop reading.

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wrong is wrong

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you can learn this in the Bible

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I think you yourself should do more research on those events if you're going to try to cite them as counter examples of religious violence. Particularly the Burma riots.

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no, i'm pretty familiar with them... the Burma riots were instigated by a Muslim shop owner and a few lackeys over a fricking hairpin.... but instead of the whole non-violence schtick they tend to adhere to, they went full 180 and incited riots against Muslims for months on end, in a variety of cities... and it's not like this was the 1st ever incidence of Buddhist on Muslim violence either, so let's not act like it was...

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you can learn this in the Bible

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or you can just have common sense.... 6 of one, half dozen of the other, i guess...

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Honestly, I just want the schools to teach reading, writing, math, science and history etc. I don’t need them to teach religion.
Any religion. Not mine, not Muslim, not Budism, not any of them. I also don’t want them pushing all the gender crap, homosexuality crap, or transgender crap. Just stick to educating. I can handle the rest.

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same