Texas makes Bible passages required reading for millions of public school students

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10. This won't turn out well

"Little Rotten Johnny, read for us your favorite Bible verse."

"Mrs. Jones, I'm going to read 2 Kings 6.27-29. "The king replied, 'if the Lord does not help you, where can I get help for you? From the threshing floor? From the winepress?' Then he asked her, 'what's the matter?' She answered, 'this woman said to me, 'give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we'll eat my son.' So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, 'give up your son so we may eat him,' but she had hidden him.'"

(Just so you know, that's actually in the Bible.)

"Little Rotten Johnny, why did you choose that passage?"

"If we gotta read Bible passages, I'm going to pick the most fucked-up ones I can find...and that's not even the worst one."