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Bids opened Monday for a contract to supply the state Department of Education with 55,000 Bibles. According to the bid documents, vendors must meet certain specifications: Bibles must be the King James Version; must contain the Old and New Testaments; must include copies of the Pledge of Allegiance, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights; and must be bound in leather or leather-like material.

A salesperson at Mardel Christian & Education searched, and though they carry 2,900 Bibles, none fit the parameters.

But one Bible fits perfectly: Lee Greenwood’s God Bless the U.S.A. Bible, endorsed by former President Donald Trump and commonly referred to as the Trump Bible. They cost $60 each online, with Trump receiving fees for his endorsement.

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[-] jzzvid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 years ago

OH WOW! That's such a weird coincidence! Imagine the odds of that! /s

Of course they did. The thing is the way the law is written violates the Constitution by promoting an ideologically-loaded, outdated translation of the Bible used by more socially extreme groups.

  • NRSV(UE) is the gold standard nowadays.
  • Leather cover? Why? What's the point?
  • The Founding Documents to the United States do not belong in a Bible. Not everything has to be tarnished with crass "Patriotic" grift.
  • Just the Bill of Rights? The Amendments to the Constitution are legally part of the Constitution. What are they not included? Is there something in those Amendments they don't feel is appropriate?
  • This Bible has consistent poor reviews on Youtube. A number of Bible collectors, theologians, pastors, etc have panned this book for being cheaply and poorly made. It has poor print quality, it's pages stick together, are thin, and rip easy.

It should be obvious to anyone this is an ideological grift and it is criminal graft too. These criminals need to be thrown in prison for this.

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Pretty clear they wrote the requirement to fit some recently hacked up version as opposed to the one hacked up by king james.

The article states they hacked it up 2900 times at least before this one. 30k different Christian sects in the U.S. last I knew

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm sure its more than that. The really perverse thing about that is all the people that are super sure their particular flavor is right and everyone else is wrong. Its the old thing about what is a cult and what is a religion? A cult is a small unpopular religion and a religion is a large popular cult.

[-] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Wait, I thought these guys were against indoctrinating children or whatever?

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[-] AmidFuror@fedia.io 6 points 2 years ago

Why would any school want a Bible that doesn't also have the Declaration and Constitution? It's a perfectly logical requirement, and it's not Trump's fault so few others are making them.

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[-] xc2215x@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

That is pretty messed up.

[-] bitwolf@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago

So do these bibles omit all of the text and stories in the normal Bible that would qualify them for book bannings?

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

To be fair, the average readers just interpret the word as is convenient to their own ends, so...

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