Secular Bible?
The Bible Literacy Project, a nonpartisan, nonprofit group in Fairfax, Va., has spent five years developing the first high school text on the Bible in 30 years. But they had to craft a textbook which would pass constitutional muster.
Why bother? Apparently a survey last spring found that 90% of English teachers believe that Biblical knowledge is necessary for a good education. Not sectarian knowledge, though. Rather, they point to a wide range of subjects ranging from Shakespeare's 1,300 biblical references to how the Bible shaped President Lincoln's perspective as President to the historical African-American experience and musical traditions as reasons why students need to have at least some academic grasp of what is in the Bible.
Interestingly enough, Barry Lynn, executive director of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, thinks this textbook is constitutional.
3 Comments:
I agree with the English teachers. I'm not religious in the least, and I oppose displaying the Ten Commandments on government property and organized prayer in public schools.
The Bible doesn't have to be taught as "fact" or even as religious dogma. It is, after all, a book, and can be taught as such.
As long as teachers are teaching the Bible as an important piece of literature instead of using it as part of a sort of catechism, I'm 100% fine with this.
Well said, Mike. I agree.
I disagree with both of you, but hey, im just happy it will be in the schools at all. My idea is that it is a camels nose. Let me get the head in and i assure you i will bring the whole camel in with it.
P.S., hello Sheik.
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