Should the Bible be taught in US public schools.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
It can still be taught as literature.

No, not as long as some people believe in the bible literally.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
No, not as long as some people believe in the bible literally.

It still gets brought up in discussions of literature in current highschools (mainly allusions to it in various texts)

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
It still gets brought up in discussions of literature in current highschools (mainly allusions to it in various texts)

I'm not against the bible as a work of Literature. I am against the fundamentalists that are plaguing the US.

Originally posted by Shakyamunison
I'm not against the bible as a work of Literature. I am against the fundamentalists that are plaguing the US.

As am I.

It should be studied as literature, and be an elective class.

Any athiest should be able to admit that the Bible is a huge part of our culture. Understanding it is very useful.

Why can't we teach the bible as history and as cultural too? And maybe it should be mandatory.

For the same reason that people can't get it through their heads that fundamentalism doesn't mean extremism.

Actually, those have two entirely different reasons, but I thought I'd bring it up.

Oh we've seen how they've been intrinsically linked.

And since fundamentalism has been married to the extremist movement in US Christianinty since the 1920s, I'd say they're pretty similar in the context some have been using.

lol another way for it to e taught in schools could be for skeet shooting.

Hey! Let's teach kids Scientology!

ok

There is more to the Bible than Religious dogma...its the most significant religious text in the US, if not the world.

Originally posted by Alliance
There is more to the Bible than Religious dogma...its the most significant religious text in the US, if not the world.

Yes, there are also some really great fight sense. 😎

Seriously though, they should remake 300 with the 300 mighty men under Gideon as it would be an equally sweet movie.

Or since the Bible lacks all the cultural elegance of Sparta, it would suck. Honestly, ancient Jewish culture is drier than any desert.

I don't know about that, I kinda like it. But then again I used to Jewish... The Book of Enoch is cool, you'd probably like that and Samson, and the Philistines, fighting the Assyrians and don't forget the siege of Jerusalem by Rome that had cannibalism in the city and so many people were crucified that the Romans started to run out of wood for siege equipment. It has got its bright spots.

Yes. Romans are mentioned. 🙂

I figured that would work.

Absolutely not. The various reasons I believe this have already been expressed.

Except I totally don't see it as a breach between Church and State. The Church is nowhere near the State. The bible is a product of the Church, and no less a product than some students that are already in the classroom.