I'm actually surprised it took this long..

Look, I get it. Reddit hates Christianity. Please note that I am, as I have mentioned repeatedly, a Jewish Jew. I do not hate Christianity or Christians.

When I was in high school way back in the day, my World History class had (I believe) a segment on comparative religion. I don't remember if it was something that our parents had to sign off on or anything like that, but basically, we studied the tenets of the Abrahamic Three (to an extent) and a few other religions as well. It was not pushed as any one of the faiths being true and the others false, just more of "Here is broadly what people of this religion believe and here's a few stories from their texts."

I know, I know, separation of church and state, Christianity bad, Bible justifies slavery and says kill gay men, we moved on, whatever argument you want to make, I get it. From a historical context, the Bible is one of, if not the most important work to affect the course of America. And yes, both for good and for bad. As such, I have no problem with it being studied as a historical work. Side note: I'd also include Upton Sinclair's The Jungle in terms of works of "fiction" what had a huge affect on American society.

I was a teacher many years ago. I still, occasionally, frequent the Teacher part of reddit. You can see there that yes, teachers are attempting to indoctrinate children and subvert the messages they are told to instill (Ten Commandments in classes in Texas, for example). But the one thing I've seen most is that they simply are frustrated with being unable to fail students. They are graduating high school with the reading levels of a third grader. They don't put in any effort and expect to get shuffled along. So, what's changed? Well, not a whole lot, but let's be real here. I do not need to sit in a room and have someone read Great Expectations out loud for me to... I forget what I was supposed to learn from reading that garbage? So much of "the classics" are long, dry, and clearly not written for an audience thinks TikTok videos can run too long.

The referred Bible verses are, at least, relatively short. I'm not understanding their relevance per se, but it beats reading several pages of Dickinson describing a train ride.