Neo-Church Celebrates Secularist Reduction of Scripture to Literature
The National Catholic Register (EWTN) portal reports that Texas has mandated a Bible-based curriculum for its 5.4 million public school students, utilizing the Protestant King James Version, and that a “Catholic” legal analyst, Andrea M. Picciotti-Bayer, hails this as an opportunity for Catholic families to “build on that foundation.” The article frames the inclusion of Jonah, David, Job, and the Sermon on the Mount as mere “literary and historic qualities” under the precedent of *Abington v. Schempp* (1963), while celebrating the Fifth Circuit’s upholding of passive Ten Commandments displays under a “history-and-tradition” framework. The thesis is clear: the neo-church enthusiastically collaborates in the Masonic project of secularizing divine revelation, reducing the *verbum Dei* to a cultural artifact for consumption in the temples of the secular state.