ATLANTA, March 28 ? Georgia is about to become the first state to approve the use of the Bible as a textbook in public schools.On Monday, the State Senate passed a bill providing money to high schools that offer elective classes in the Bible, and setting specific guidelines for those classes. The bill was approved by Georgia’s House of Representatives last week.Gov. Sonny Perdue is expected to sign the law.The bill creates two courses, the History and Literature of the Old Testament Era and the History and Literature of the New Testament Era, that can be offered as electives. It gives the state’s Department of Education a year to approve the curriculum, but it requires that the Bible itself, not a textbook, be the core material used. Supplementary materials can also be used. Other state school systems offer classes in the Bible, but Georgia’s law would be the first to require that the Bible be the core text. Legislators in Alabama and Missouri are considering similar measures.With the enactment of the law, public schools in Georgia will be pushed, once again, into grappling with whether or how ideas tied to religion can be introduced into classrooms without violating the separation of church and state.
… forced Bible reading without violating the separation of church and state? Is there anyone out there who thinks this WASN’T a direct attempt to do just that?
Indeed, topping the best-seller list doesn’t mean anything. The bible has been around for 2000 years, before they even labelled fiction and non-fiction. Take the “fiction” out of Harry Potter, wait 2000 years, and I bet there’ll be a bunch of idiots quoting it as the Holy Truth too.
So no, topping the best-seller list doesn’t make your words the ultimate answer to life (or anything close). It just means people like the book. People also like cigarettes, but what good have those ever done?
The 2nd bestselling book in the history of the world was Quotations from Chairman Mao. Just so you know.
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Reading the christian bible in school.
Hmmmm m m m . . .
Maybe its not such a bad idea.
I was ‘raised’ a southern baptist and my first step toward becomming an atheist was when I actually read the bible, cover-to-cover when I was about 15 years old. By the time I was 15 I had read several good books that seemed to hold as much (or more) truth than “The Good Book”.