Louisiana's state book to be the bible?

[Jamzmania]

Everyone seems to be ignoring the massive impact the Bible has had on Louisiana and our nation as a whole. The effect it has had on our founders, our constitution, our laws, and our culture has been enormous.

Besides, to claim it is unconstitutional means it would have to be either the establishment of a state religion or a law that would impede others' freedom to worship. Having a State Book is just another "state-thing" trivia fact that will effect nothing.

[Luepola]

Everyone seems to be ignoring the massive impact the Bible has had on Louisiana and our nation as a whole. The effect it has had on our founders, our constitution, our laws, and our culture has been enormous.

Besides, to claim it is unconstitutional means it would have to be either the establishment of a state religion or a law that would impede others' freedom to worship. Having a State Book is just another "state-thing" trivia fact that will affect nothing.

Fixed

[The Rich Port]

Everyone seems to be ignoring the massive impact the Bible has had on Louisiana and our nation as a whole. The effect it has had on our founders, our constitution, our laws, and our culture has been enormous.

Besides, to claim it is unconstitutional means it would have to be either the establishment of a state religion or a law that would impede others' freedom to worship. Having a State Book is just another "state-thing" trivia fact that will effect nothing.

Yes, how massively the Founding Fathers wanted nothing to do with it.

[Divair2]

Everyone seems to be ignoring the massive impact the Bible has had on Louisiana and our nation as a whole. The effect it has had on our founders, our constitution, our laws, and our culture has been enormous.

Besides, to claim it is unconstitutional means it would have to be either the establishment of a state religion or a law that would impede others' freedom to worship. Having a State Book is just another "state-thing" trivia fact that will effect nothing.

Yes, how massively the Founding Fathers wanted nothing to do with it.

Clearly the only solution is to adopt an anti-bible as the official state book.

[Threlizdun]

Everyone seems to be ignoring the massive impact the Bible has had on Louisiana and our nation as a whole. The effect it has had on our founders, our constitution, our laws, and our culture has been enormous.

Besides, to claim it is unconstitutional means it would have to be either the establishment of a state religion or a law that would impede others' freedom to worship. Having a State Book is just another "state-thing" trivia fact that will effect nothing.

[Hochste Kaiserreich]

Remember when Church and State were separated?
Pepperidge Farms remembers.

[Nervium]

Yes, how massively the Founding Fathers wanted nothing to do with it.

Clearly the only solution is to adopt an anti-bible as the official state book.

The Satanic bible *nods*

Besides, it's been 20 years since the last Satanic Panic, let's have a new one!

[Gauthier]

Clearly the only solution is to adopt an anti-bible as the official state book.

The Satanic bible *nods*

Besides, it's been 20 years since the last Satanic Panic, let's have a new one!

Satanic Bible? Skip the middle man and just push for Atlas Shrugged.

[Chaunceys]

Link to article:
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/ ... _book.html

Now I know this was pulled because in the first part of the article it reads

Rep. Thomas Carmody, R-Shreveport, scrapped his proposal to make the Holy Bible the official state book before it could go to a full vote of the state House of Representatives Monday evening. The bill had become a distraction, he said.

In introducing the legislation, Carmody always maintained he was not taking steps to establish a state religion, but rather to educate people. Critics have accused him of foisting faith inappropriately into the government sphere. Others thought such a designation would trivialize the Bible and its importance.

Now even though this was scrapped I wanted to get "everyone" else's opinions on this my opinion on this is that this shouldn't happen because of Separation of Church and State also in 1797 the United States Senate unanimously ratified a treaty with triple E that stated in article 11 reads:

As the Government of the united States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian Religion; as it has itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion, or tranquility, of Mussulmen; and, as the said States never entered into any war, or act of hostility against arising from religious opinions, shall ever produce an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries

Also another quote from Thomas Jefferson:

Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof", thus building a wall of separation between Church & State

Personally I don't think this should happen because it breaches the "wall" between Church and State" and pretty much give a big middle finger at any other religion besides Christianity.

[Farnhamia]

Added the new thread to the end of this old one.

[Chaunceys]

While it's a truly historic piece of fiction and has more printed copies than any other novel in history, It's a little.... dated. I think they'd be better off with something a little more contemporary and more in line with the state average reading level; like 'Hop on Pop' by Dr Seuss for example.

Or green eggs and ham

[Chaunceys]

Added the new thread to the end of this old one.

Yay in a sarcastic voice xD

[Chaunceys]

Am I allowed to create a new forum topic of this to inject some new life to the forum?

[Greed and Death]

Everyone seems to be ignoring the massive impact the Bible has had on Louisiana and our nation as a whole. The effect it has had on our founders, our constitution, our laws, and our culture has been enormous.

Besides, to claim it is unconstitutional means it would have to be either the establishment of a state religion or a law that would impede others' freedom to worship. Having a State Book is just another "state-thing" trivia fact that will effect nothing.

Yes, how massively the Founding Fathers wanted nothing to do with it.

There was a Jefferson bible.

[The Rich Port]

Yes, how massively the Founding Fathers wanted nothing to do with it.

There was a Jefferson bible.

And it had pictures of Jefferson's Staff of Longinus.

[Conserative Morality]

I would argue that if they're going to do this, they *should* pick a translation. The Bible is an important work of literature, but few would say that the NLT has a tenth of the literary quality of the King James or the Vulgate.