Jesus removed from Texas Bibles
By Marcus Manfred – July 12, 2010The Texas Board of Education announced Monday that it will order new Bibles for Texas schools that remove all references to Jesus on the grounds that his teachings are “too liberal” for the classroom. The changes will likely impact Bibles sold throughout the U.S. because Texas buys more Bibles than any other state.
The board approved the changes in a 10 to 5 party-line vote with unanimous support from Republicans. Dr. Don McLeroy, a dentist and leader of the board’s conservative faction, said the changes were approved without any input from theologians, in keeping with the board’s practice of editing schoolbooks on its own and ignoring experts.
“I know there’s folks who will say we in Texas have no business teaching religion in the classroom, well frankly a bunch of ignorant zealots like us have no business meddling with textbooks either but that’s didn’t stop us from doing so,” McLeroy said. “Here in the republic of Texas we don’t give a lick what the rest of the country thinks, unless of course we need federal money or help with stuff like hurricanes.”
While the move to strike Jesus from the Bible took some board members by surprise, McLeroy said it was important to restore a sense of conservative balance to what he called “an awfully preachy book.”
“I finally sat down to read my Bible and you know what? Jesus told people to give all their money to the poor, hell that’s communism,” McLeroy said. “I thought for sure he would be telling us to stick our noses into everyone else’s business and hate those who are different. It turns out Jesus said you should love your enemies, what kind tree-hugging hippie crap is that?”
I am proud to be a Texan. First we took back the night, then we took back our country, and now we're taking back our religion from that Jewish elitist Middle Easterner. Yee-haw!
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