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South Dakota Legislature Wants School Children to become Atheists

The South Dakota Legislature is on a mission to convert as many schoolchildren to atheism as possible, and they want to use the public schools to do it.

To further their atheistic goals, the legislature adopted a resolution “supporting and encouraging the academic study of the Bible in South Dakota public schools.”

As a concurrent resolution this bill has no legal effect, no force of law, but it is heartening to see that so many government officials are encouraging freethought in the young. After all, the surest way to become an atheist is to study the bible, exactly what the legislature is “supporting and encouraging.” Sitting down to actually read, and especially to study, the bible, one cannot help but be impressed by how boring it truly is. Of course it is influential in art and other literature in ways that everyone should understand, but it is not a “good book” and it is an even worse moral guide. An honest reading or study of the bible would shake the faith of many an impressionable child.

The bible is littered with contradictions and inconsistencies. It contains over 2,500 years of annexations, excisions, mistranslations, and editorial revisions.