Texas Public Schools Required to Teach Bible This Year
by leavingwt 44 Replies latest social current
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MissingLink
Sad, but not surprising.
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yknot
Well many in Texas are quite happy with this optional course......... (I am just saying...)
But lets be clear this course is optional and only mandatory if more than 15 students request the class.
Personally I am witholding my opinion until I see how this plays out especially since there is no set curriculum.
On another front I know of at least 18 families who are traditionally Christian Private Schoolers who are now considering putting their kids back in public school due to this mandate while the economy wrecks havoc on their finances.
Look at this way if Gov. Perry had managed to get his pet voucher program passed many Texas children would have been put into private religious schools anyways........ it is still very much a Bible Belt state.
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beksbks
How will JW's feel about someone else interpreting the bible for their children?
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BizzyBee
You can't understand about 300 years of European history, or Shakespeare, or the Enlightenment philosphers who laid the groundwork for modern democracy; without a basic understand of the religious arguments. This does not mean teaching a belief system with an end to
getting the target audience to believe it, but they need to understand it.
By that reasoning, and considering the religious wars being fought around the world today, we should also teach other holy books - the writings of Confucius, Bhagavad Gita, I Ching, the Koran, the Talmud, Tao-te-ching (Taoism), Veda (Hinduism). Oh, yeah - we already do - in Comparative World Religions classes - first college class I ever took over 30 years ago.
Why a class on just on Christianity and the Bible? Why? Thin end of the wedge. The Founding Fathers understood the importance of separation of church and state. The right-wing keeps trying to integrate church and state. They've been shot down before, but they keep trying.
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JeffT
Probably not a bad idea at all - and I would support it. But the emphasis on the Bible is because we live in a culture that has been profoundly effected by it.
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mindmelda
Seems like I got out of Texas just in time.
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hamsterbait
Let the kids read the pro-slavery, misogynistic homophobic rantings of ST Paul. See the disgusting slaughter the Jews claim GOD told them to perpetrate. The irrational ceremonies of the Mosaic code.
Let them read about the Flood and find out how unscientific it is. Let them see how Christians are unable to reach consensus on what their own Holy Book actually means, and how they have killed each other over it for centuries.
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beksbks
But the emphasis on the Bible is because we live in a culture that has been profoundly effected by it.
Of course it's not, it's because it is the agenda.
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BurnTheShips
Ooh, she said agenda. Maybe she even knows what that means.
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