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thucythucy

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

Reply to workinclasszero (Original post)

Sun Aug 20, 2017, 10:07 AM

Aug 2017

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.

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Kentucky Tea Party governor blames Charlottesville violence on lack of Bibles in schools [View all] workinclasszero Aug 2017 OP

Because let's teach math and science from the Bible VMA131Marine Aug 2017 #1

The county that has one of the highest violent crime rates exboyfil Aug 2017 #2

A couple of hundred years! atreides1 Aug 2017 #3

"When you go back a couple of hundred years" thucythucy Aug 2017 #4

Here is a list of 19th century textbooks exboyfil Aug 2017 #5

Quite the opposite JDC Aug 2017 #6

Good point ! Maybe he could introduce these concepts to the White Nationalists and Nazis: King_Klonopin Aug 2017 #7