In the middle of fourth grade, the teacher no longer read something from the King James bible to the class after the Pledge of Allegiance.
Why was that?
Because of the self-proclaimed atheist, Madalyn Murray. She did not want God interfering with her son's disbelief and argued in court for the separation of church and state. She won. No longer did the teachers have to pick something out of the Old Testament to read to the kids. It was OT because there might be Jews in the class. Never mind Hindus or Buddhists
So the Bible was off limits
Being a Catholic kid, I still had two years of Catechism to go through. Even if the King James version wasn't the Catholic version, it was still what my Protestant classmates heard in their church. I felt a little Catholic guilt hearing those words, even if they were OT.
In fifth grade, a Jewish kid came to our school, just so you know. That was the first thing we knew about him.
I find it particularly funny that Madalyn got her way and now, she seems to have lost again.
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