To the editor: As your editorial notes, Oklahoma’s state Supt. of Public Instruction Ryan Walters took nice pains to specify that the Christian Bible and Ten Commandments ought to be highlighted in historical past classes, amongst different public faculty topics. (“Spiritual freedom beneath assault in Oklahoma colleges,” editorial, Aug. 1)
Search for him so as to add additional steering on “thou shalt not kill.” In spite of everything, early American Christians disposed of ladies deemed to be pagan witches by horrifically hanging them. And thereafter the Ku Klux Klan, using such Christian memes as crosses and prayers, perpetrated ugly lynchings of African People nicely into the twentieth century.
I can see it coming: Walters and his pious red-state brethren will accuse realized historians of fabricating one thing akin to important race concept — say, important religion concept — the higher to advertise instruction that white-washes inconvenient histories of religion-rooted crimes and bigotry.
Would that red-state faculty youngsters could possibly be spared culture-war strife.
M. Edward Alston, Santa Monica
