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So, what happens when people take them up on their offer to learn more about “Christian heritage” and they find out it is bollocks?

How do you turn a Christian into an Atheist?

Have them actually read the Bible.

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Let's teach them about the xtian mob that conducted the last "public" lynching in Chattanooga in the 1910's, stringing a black teen up on the Walnut Street Bridge.... you know...the blue arched one they feature in a lot of their tourism promotions.

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From Wiki: Two black men were lynched on the bridge: Alfred Blount on February 14, 1893, was hanged from the first span for allegedly attacking a white woman; Ed Johnson on March 19, 1906, was hanged from the second span, also for allegedly attacking a white woman. Johnson's lynching initiated a court case (United States v. Shipp) before the Supreme Court that is notable for being the only criminal trial in its history.

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Thank you. It was the 1906 depravity I was thinking of. I remembered that it had a judicial significance but couldn't remember what it was exactly. I also remember reading/seeing a video of(?) Chattanoogans enjoying a stroll in it (converted to a pedestrian bridge around the same time as the Tennessee Aquarium was built), being asked what they knew of its history and almost none of them knew about the lynchings.

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It took about 25 years of my adulthood, but learning the Bible and Christian heritage is largely what drove me out of church

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Makes a lot more sense for Dolly Parton's book to be on that list than the Bible- Coat of Many Colors is at least about someone born in Tennessee, it has a sweet, wholesome message for kids... and in any case, she's a 𝘸𝘢𝘺 better role model than any of the twisted fuckers in the Bible.

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Plus Dolly Parton has gifted millions of books to children all over the country, which includes plenty in TN.

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How very un-Christian of her!

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I'm surprised that hasn't earned her the ire of Fascist Moms for Liberty.

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Obey your elders or get dashed on the rocks is plenty wholesome.

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What could be more wholesome than a young woman "lusting after her lovers" and including images of donkey penises and horses ejaculating?

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Dang it. Now my Jockeys are feeling way too tight. I'll be back in 7 minutes.

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What are you going to do for the other 6 minutes? : )

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Oh, good! I was afraid it might by four hours. ;)

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Be polite to your elders or get mauled to death by she-bears.

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Yeah that was some stupid shit, there were better forms of birth control, even then. Or they just hated kids.

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Yes, and "kill all the women that have known a man but keep the virgins for yourself." Kind of tells you who they are as well.

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Where was Aitkin’s printing press where he printed this Bible? The bill only says that Tennessee is where the most reproductions are printed now, not that the original was printed there. It’s a tenuous connection to TN, at best.

Oh look! Aitkin was a Philadelphia publisher.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Aitken_(publisher). I’m gonna assume the originals were printed in PA.

Republicans will grasp at any straw to push their religion on us and do anything to keep from actually doing the people’s work.

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Not a single book about the KKK, which was born in Pulaski, TN.

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Covered by the Jackson papers.

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But it's an avowed Christian institution. One would think they'd have been proud of that fine heritage.

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Oh they are! I mean they still celebrate Robert E Lee's BD in Mississippi If I remember correctly.

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Too bad it spread to other parts of the state and country and didn't die there as well.

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Isn't the bible about the KKK? Oh no, wait, I have that backwards...

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The claimed to be defending christianity, but they meant white supremacy.

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Po-tay-to, po-tah-to

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Christian Heritage Month. Will they be celebrating Christian traditions like the genocide of indigenous people and the theft of their lands? How about the fact that they participated in and profited from the institution of slavery.

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Or the fact that the Nazi insignia was the Iron CROSS, or that in Mein Kampf, Hitler wrote that in hating the Jews, he was doing the Lord's work, or...

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Yeah, I love to remind Fundamentalists that Hitler was a christian.

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Perhaps a witch burning or two?

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Mark Twain on Witch Hunts

www.twainquotes.com/Witches.html

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🎯🎯🎯It is Tenessee, of course they will. Although what makes it different from any other day, I don't know.

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I'm going to make this quick: Tennessee has official jumped the shark ... and I don't mean any measly nurse shark or mako shark or whatever. I mean a GREAT WHITE MUTHERFUCKER, the kind that made Richard Dreyfuss say, "We're gonna need a bigger boat!"

Stupid is as Tennessee does, apparently.

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That was ROY SCHEIDER's line in Jaws. As a cinephile, I am greatly offended by your mistake. Apologize now! *smiles*

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PIFFLE!!! 😝😝😝

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America, where everything is bigger.

Great white on the right https://images.app.goo.gl/awN4qcbSnUSCvv1AA

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It doesn't matter as long as you have a good PR agent.

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“Christian Heritage Month”

Give them a month and they'll take a year.

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They already have every damn day anyway..... Twice on Sundays.

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"Twice on Sundays"

That's always been my motto. 😀

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Hell, they're already trying- I've heard Christmas music as early as Halloween.

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Then there’s Christmas in July sales and such.

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I always wish Orson Welles recorded a "spoken word" version of "You Better Watch Out," considering the lyrics read dryly and not with the customary happy music are pretty damn ominous, like a Halloween-time warning about The Boogeyman!

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Peter Sellers (as Dr. Strangelove) did a spoken word rendition of Santa Claus is Coming to Town. I thought it would be online but I couldn't find it.

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On "Breakfast with the Beatles," here on a radio station in LA, they played a spoken word recording of PS doing A Hard Day's Night. My mom, a huge Beatles fan, was not exactly enthralled with it. *smiles*

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Try https://open.spotify.com/artist/6GMbArtEhQvuBq8zXXDo2X#login

I don't have an account, so have not tried it. I do have the record. Help! is the B side.

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Bibles are collections of ancient myths that people wanting to either control people, make a nickel or both use by claiming the myths are real events and inerrant.

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The main purposes of most religions are:

To collect money.

To control their members through fear.

To indoctrinate their children before they reach the age of reason (grooming?).

To intimidate or kill those who are not members.

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Speaking of notable works by state authors, you don't get any more Tennesseeish than Tennessee Williams, so howzabout putting "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" on that list?

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State Rep Bulso is another bible beating misogynistic pervert.... that pretty much sums up the US Republican Party including the super majority here in Tennessee where I unfortunately currently reside.

Rep Bulso also voted against the bill last week prohibiting first cousins from getting married. One, because he's a perv. And two, his grandparents were first cousins. You can't make this shit up. Yes, it ended up passing but no help from incest Bulso...... then to show support 9 other Republicans who previously supported it declined to vote. Just like corrupt and perverted clergy they all stick together.

Last year TN GOP got the "In God We Trust " added to the state seal. Arent they so productive?? Nevermind about about the $720M in federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program that has NOT been paid out in years, because...well......fuck them low income people ....thats gods will and plan for them to suffer.

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Suffering builds character, the catholics love it!

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Yes they do, Mother Teresa was a huge proponent of suffering. Just ask any of the sick people she was supposed to be taking care of. I bet they will tell you that their suffering absolutely did not bring them closer to god as Mother Teresa told him that would as they laid there in pain in their beds.

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I wonder if some magats or evilgelicals will sue the State for including other books with their beloved babble. I would love the irony.

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I wonder how they’re squaring that circle from when the first proposal was shot down because it trivialized the Bible being next to other state symbols when this is specifically a list of other “books” that might not shine a favorable light on the Bible. It’s not even listed as the number one book, it’s just one of ten.

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One book for each commandment.

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The religious right clings to the delusion the United States is a 'Christian' country, or is supposed to be. This is in spite of the fact the words Christian, Jesus, Christianity, and Bible appear no where in the Constitution. The blood soaked history of Christian on Christian violence in Europe was the real guideline the founders used, not the Bible. They gave religion NO role to play in our secular government. Christians tend to see their magic book as the answer to everything, even though the majority of them have never actually read it.

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🎯🎯🎯

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OT- butthurt Florida Man hoist by own petard: https://apnews.com/article/florida-ron-desantis-education-book-bans-65daf4420318a837487976c10bb75d86

Guv'nur DeSeptic is whining about his own book ban law because activists noticed how idiotically over-broad it was and used it to challenge books Ronny Bootlifts 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯'𝘵 want banned. Sucks when you try to Do a Fascism only to have it blow up in your face, don't it?

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Hear that sound? That's the sound of a Face-Eating Leopard burping.

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DeNazi was counting on being president so he wouldn't have to deal with the fallout from his fascist laws.

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I have never been happier to see a political campaign fail in my life- we, as a nation, dodged a death squad's worth of bullets when he had to slink back to Florida with his tail between his legs. Hopefully he fades away into irrelevance once his term's up down there, and all of his bullshit with him.

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I think the knives are out for him because none of his fellow state reps liked him and he put the bite on everyone of them, for campaign funds. And fighting with Disney is just ridiculously stupid.

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Yep, his sick wife even did a commercial claiming he was "God's warior"

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“ The new law limits people who don’t have students in a school district to one challenge per month.”

With just a little organization we can overcome that obstacle. How many school districts does FL have?

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"Christian Heritage Month," otherwise known as "December."

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Or any month with at least 15 days.

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OT, but Foote was a Confederate apologist, so I'd question any "narrative" from him about The Civil War.

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I'm tempted to send a gift to TN. They can adopt my piss as their official bible polish. I have been thru or over TN once or twice.. so I do have 'connection' with the state.

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I will pay the postage. Let me know where to send the funds.

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Only piss.... We can do better than that can't we?

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Add a little WD-40. That'll make it respectable.

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