In West Virginia, They Want to Make the Bible Official History

WEST VIRGINIA WANTS TO RECOGNIZE THE BIBLE AS OFFICIAL HUMAN AND NATURAL HISTORY?

I’ve been to church more than I care to remember. Not to say that going to church is bad, or that there is anything negative with anyone’s faith. But I had to go, as it was a family affair for many years growing up. So my memories are being of an age where I couldn’t sit still but had to under what are very boring, squirmy circumstances for a child. But even with an errant period of Sunday school, which was not easy for me either, I understood that learning about the Bible wasn’t necessarily a literal affair. But in West Virginia, there are apparently enough lawmakers to craft a resolution to make the Bible itself official, human history.

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So as a kid saddled with doing Bible study in Sunday school, I had no problem with the intellectual disconnect between interpreted, rewritten stories being a foundation of faith. I understood that in many ways faith was believing in the unprovable. But what did I know? Because the West Virginia House of Delegates is actually going to think about making resolution 3020 law. And it’s a doozy, to be sure. The resolution calls for legally recognizing that the Holy Bible is “the divinely inspired, inerrant foundational document for our society and government,” and “an accurate historical record of human and natural history” and “the utmost authority for human moral behavior.” Not for nothing, but this sure sounds like protestants who don’t understand why their protestants, or what it means.

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And even more disturbing to people who like to understand their own faith more than dictating everyone else’s, the resolution would literally amend the state’s constitution. The Bible would then be official history (inspired by God himself), and to be literally interpreted as such for both human and natural history. Has anyone in the Wild and Wonderful state of West Virginia heard of the legal detail called the Separation of Church and State? Or maybe considered that not everyone who lives there is a practicing Christian and even if they are, don’t want to recognize a collection of interpreted stories as historic fact?

Because really, if the Bible was so perfect a document, why would anyone need to officially recognize it as such? Might as well try to go find some ecumenically certified abortion pills to sell there; any sales would make any deity shake their head in disgust.