A Troup ISD student wears religious shirt (Facebook)
Troup ISD parents are upset after a letter was sent to the school district asking that a bible verse be taken down from its website.
The letter was sent out by the Freedom From Religion Foundation.
Brittany Taylor has two kids at Troup ISD. She, along with other upset parents, are fighting a battle she says the schools can’t.
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Parents at Troup are in the process of ordering shirts for their students that say, “Our God is bigger.”
The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) said that’s not the point.
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The bible verse that was on the website read “As Goliath moved closer to attack, David quickly ran out to meet him.” It comes from the Old Testament.
The FFRF said the verse promotes Christianity.
“I’m hoping that we get to put it back up because everybody should have freedom of religion,” said Jesse Calley, 7th grader.
Even if the quote never goes back on the website, parents said they’re planning to send pictures of the students wearing the shirts to the foundation in hopes of getting a message across.
“It will be in our children’s hearts and they will not stop praising God because a group told them to,” said Taylor.
Our God Is Bigger. That sentiment has a whole lot to answer for, mostly in the form of one war after another, with corpses strewn across the landscape. It’s simplistic, and terrifying. How about “Our God Doesn’t Require A Quote.”?
● “Moar Demons!”
● “Stand Up for Judas!”
This is actually the name of famous Leon Rosselson song, here sung by Dick Gaughan: “He who is not with me is against me is his teaching” — one guess for who he refers to.
● “Pirates for Reality!”
● “My Imaginary Sky Faerie is Realer Then Yours!”
● “I Want to be Eaten First!”
● “How Big is Your Bigotry?”
● “I Worship Torture”
● “My Gun is Louder!”
● “I use Bigger Bullets!”
● “I use Square Bullets!”
● “Mindless Indoctrination made Me”
Blf:
Thanks for that! I’d never heard of it before.
The romans throughly pwn’d your god, kid.
I assume you’ve all seen the “your god was nailed to a cross, mine carries a hammer” meme…
Can I get that quote on a condom?
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Marcus Ranum #4
I haven’t and when you wrote it I immediately thought of Marx for some reason.
Alexander @ 5:
It’s this one:
Bigger than what?
Surely not other gods…
Caine #6
I googled it, but I still think there should be a Marx one. There has to be.
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chigau #7
Just bigger, ‘kay?
He’s very big even for a bloke of his size.
Chigau @ 7:
Well, the bible quote is the story of David and Goliath, but since giant Philistines seem to be in short supply these days…I guess bigger than FFRF?
Alexander @ 8:
That wouldn’t make sense, because the meme is about two gods.
Will a penguin, deranged, mildly, fond of cheese, herrings, smelling (not-so-)vaguely of, do?
And there’s always the collection of forty-foot high killer rats.
And aren’t most thugs philistines, apparently with self-declared big penises?
Blf:
I’d say Goethe got it right:
That certainly seems to describe a majority of Americans these days.
Oh yes, I think she’d do just fine.
And aren’t most thugs philistines, apparently with self-declared big penises?
The “philistines” being the tribe that left their name behind on land that is now spelled “palestine”
Why not shit on the philistines some more? Apparently everyone shits on the philistines.
Marcus, I’m pretty sure that wasn’t what was meant by the reference to philistines. Perhaps clicking on the link provided would clear that up.
I not only provided a link to clarify that I was not talking about Palestine, I also made damn certain I spelled the word appropriately for the intended usage: Not Philistine (“a member of a non-Semitic people of ancient southern Palestine”) but philistine (“a person who is hostile or indifferent to culture and the arts”).
(By context, Palestinians is meant.) Citation fecking needed.
When I saw this title, the first thing that went through my head was the Spitting Image song “My God is Bigger Than Your God”…
Bryan @ 16:
I’m going to have to look that one up.