Once the bedrock of American education, the Holy Bible will return to classrooms in one state, thanks to a Christian school administrator.

Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters has ordered more than 500 Bibles, the firstfruits of a new harvest of biblical literacy.

“Every classroom in the state of Oklahoma is going to have a Bible,” Walters told “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins” last week.

Walters hopes reading the scriptures, the first of which are headed for Advanced Placement (AP) Government classes, will help students understand American history and Western civilization more broadly. “It has played a tremendous role in shaping America’s society, government, really all aspects of our history,” Walters told Perkins. “We’re in the process of purchasing a Bible for every classroom so that every kid can understand the influence of the Bible as one of our founding documents.”

“How do you understand American history without understanding the Bible?” he asked. “The Left has run the Bible out of school with their attacks on Christianity and our faith, and we’re bringing it back.”

The Left has already sued to maintain the secular worldview’s dominance in the classroom. American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the Freedom From Religion Foundation, and Americans United for the Separation of Church and State filed a lawsuit last month to prevent Walters from exposing children to the Bible.

“The same groups that are suing me to block the Bible from being back in the classroom were the same groups that sued me to bring back ‘Gender Queer’ and ‘Flamer.’ I mean, literally, it’s the same people. They want graphic transgender pornography in the classroom under the name of ‘inclusion.’ But they don’t want the Bible — the most-read, the most-cited, and most-purchased book in American history,” said Walters. “[T]hey don’t want kids to love this country. They don’t want kids to understand that faith has played a role in so many Americans lives. They don’t want kids to know the truth. What they want to do is lie to kids and make them hate this country, hate their faith, hate their families, so they can recreate America into some Marxist dumpster fire.”

“The reason [for] removing [the Bible] is so you can recreate an America in a different image that can be molded and shaped into something that it was never intended to be,” agreed Family Research Council President Tony Perkins.

Walters believes the American people spoke out against secularism in the 2024 presidential election. “Kamala Harris and Tim Walz ran on the most anti-American, anti-Christian” platform in American history, said Walters. In the waning days of the campaign, Harris told a group of young people who shouted “Jesus is Lord” at a campaign event in Wisconsin, “Oh, you guys are at the wrong rally.” A short time later, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance greeted a similar outburst by saying, “Jesus is Lord.”

The Harris-Walz campaign also “attack[ed] colleges like Grand Canyon University, because they’re Christian universities. We saw these attacks against Christians, attacks against parents,” said Walters. “And on the other hand, what do we have from President Trump? A vision for America, a vision that is unapologetic. He says, ‘Hey, I want the Ten Commandments back in the classroom. I want the Bible back in the classroom.’”

“President Trump laid out a clear vision. So did Kamala,” said Walters. “And the American people voted overwhelmingly that they want those books back in our schools — the Bible, the Ten Commandments. They want the vision that President Trump has laid out for our schools and our education. They want his vision for the country.”

Walters is only too happy to oblige.

“If we don’t teach our kids where we came from, we can never move forward as that exceptional country,” contended Walters.