re: Texas getting it's own Sharia Law

Good move by Texas.

This is a Christian land, whether you like it or not fruitcake

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Thanks for admitting you’re a sack of shite who can’t back up his baseless accusations

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You seem pretty grounded.

You realize your entire list was/is baseless? Who’s the sack?

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The truth is the there is one God in three persons

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That, in itself, is a theorem, not the truth. You need to prove your theorem is the truth using known axioms and postulates.

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And? I took AP lit in California and we had to read Bible passages in order to recognize allusions in literary works. The Bible is a literary work. It is literature. It is studied by literary critics. There is not a written work that has influenced novelists and poets more than the Bible. Most works of literature with lasting value are replete with biblical allusions and references You cannot fully interpret most works of the western literary canon if you don’t have a cursory understanding of various biblical stories and figures. fricking deal with it you twit

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Nobody is arguing students can’t study the Bible as literature. That’s the dodge. I read biblical allusions too. The issue is the state singling out one religion’s sacred text for mandatory exposure in public schools while pretending it’s just “literary context.”

If this were required Quran passages, you’d suddenly understand the difference between academic study and state-sponsored religious preference with breathtaking clarity.

“The Bible influenced Western literature” is a reason to teach biblical allusions in AP Lit. It is not a blank check for the government to launder Christian instruction through public school reading lists. Deal with that, canon cop.

So this didn’t happen?

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The basis for the Richmond memorandum relied on a single investigation in the Richmond Field Office's area of responsibility in which the subject "self-described" as a "radical-traditionalist Catholic" (RTC). However, FBI employees could not define the meaning of an RTC when preparing, editing, or reviewing the memorandum. Even so, this single investigation became the basis for an FBI-wide memorandum warning about the dangers of "radical" Catholics.

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greenhouse gases

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Plants love them.

Why do you hate plants?

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Except Job and Isiah acknowledge “the earth hangs on nothing”

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Yeah you don’t understand Job 26:7. This verse is about Yahweh putting dry land in the midst of the waters when he separated the waters above from the waters below. The earth sits between the Tohu and Balimah (Tohu and Bohu from Genesis 1, meaning formless and chaotic). Balimah or Bohu represents the Tehom - the great deep ocean of chaos. In this same chapter, Yahweh inscribed a circle (aka a circuit or a compass, NOT a sphere) on the face (the flat surface) on the waters of the flat earth. In this same chapter, the firmament, called Heaven, sits on great pillars. See also Job chapter 38 for biblical flat earth cosmology with the flat earth on pillars with edges with a dome on top and storehouses in Heaven for the winds and snow and such.

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and “He sits above the circle of the earth.”

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What else does it say in Isaiah 40:22?

Maybe something about the firmament, the name of which was Heaven? Hebrew “raqia” and “shamayim”. Something about spreading out that firmament like a curtain or a tent to dwell in????

Look up that word used for “circle” in your bible. See how the KJV calls it a “compass”. That is a two dimensional circle, not a sphere. Do you notice in this chapter the earth has the same foundations mentioned in Job??? What the hell is Yahweh sitting on looking down at the earthly inhabitants like grasshoppers?

Check exodus 24:10 and Ezekiel 1:26 and tell us what kind of stone the firmament appears to be made from.

It’s not a soft-ament. It’s a firm-ament. It’s got to be strong to hold up God and his heavenly ocean!

You’re an amateur.

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Plants love them

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Sure they do-- they'll literally DIE for greenhouse gases. You see that firsthand in places like France, where wine grapes, grains, and raspberry and strawberry harvests will be virtually non-existent this year thanks to human activity raising the atmospheric CO2 level to 450+ ppm.

Show me where in Texas schools are forced to teach pride and I will disagree with it.

If it is an optional club or book, I'm on with that. Just like if you have an optional religious club that is fine.

But to force religion to be taught, and only 1 religion, is ridiculous and everyone here would be up in arms if it were any other religion than the one that you happen to believe in.