re: Trump backs push for Bible classes in schools

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Furthermore, as any English teacher can attest, knowing Biblical stories is an IMMENSE benefit when it comes to understanding symbolism and allusions throughout the entire western canon of literature.

Books became much more rewarding and better understood if you read them while knowing where the Christian symbolism is.

The Bible is an extremely important reference book for universal themes, motifs, and messages. Biblical plots, philosophical musings, complex moral questions, they all show up in our masterpieces. In fact, entire novels regarded as classic are actually just remakes of biblical stories

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Excellent post. Understanding the Bible is important to understanding a lot of Western literature. It would be beneficial to take a Biblical literature class just to understand the themes and references in many books. Disregarding one of the most influential books of all time, that repeatedly appears in countless other literature, just because you don't like what it says is dumb.

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When you give the authority to the state to teach religion to your children, you lose control of the content of the lessons. They may not teach what you want your kids to learn.

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We have already given the state control to teach johnny has two daddies, what could a survey of the old or new testament class hurt?

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We have already given the state control to teach johnny has two daddies, what could a survey of the old or new testament class hurt?

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It's kind of amusing when leftist claim something like the Bible is too controversial to share with kids, but teaching them about anal sex in third grade, teaching them that a boy with a penis can be a girl, teaching them that George Washington was a racists slave owner, etc. all good!

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The problem is Christianity/ Bible is being selected as the book of reference. If a State was bringing the Koran into the classsroms the there would be a rightful backlash.

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That’s because the Koran is literature that isn’t fit for me to wipe my arse with.

I don't care about optional classes as long as they teach it for what it is. Considering who is pushing for this, I have a hard time believing it won't be taught as religious propaganda.

Muh Slippery Slope, right guys?

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Muh Slippery Slope, right guys?

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We are way passed the slippery slope period in our present history. We have slid off the slope into the mire.

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When you give the authority to the state to teach religion to your children, you lose control of the content of the lessons. They may not teach what you want your kids to learn.

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When political correctness makes it's way into biology class and they teach kids that men can become women and women can become men surely you'll be against that huh?

You know what's funny is I really don't see any problem on the surface with offering an optional class that parents can easily choose to not have their children take part in. Given how many things the schools inject into the school year that they do not give the parents an option on or they're slightly sneaky about, a straight-up optional class just doesn't seem worth worrying about

that said if I do have one critique of it it's the same one I have for a lot of things the school does above basic education

That is that they're not even getting the results one would hope for from the core educational process and every minute spent in school doing something other than the core educational process is a minute taken away from their primary mission

But I apply that to all the silly shite. From sex education to religious studies to Heather has two mommies and on and on.

Seems to me that if you are tasked with a mission and you excelling at that mission then you shouldn't be taking on new ancillary missions

I have a problem with public funds being used to teach bible study in public schools.

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We are way passed the slippery slope period in our present history. We have slid off the slope into the mire.

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The further we have moved from religious nonsense, the more we have improved as a society. Religion can be useful when dealing with ignorant masses, but as some religions continue to show it can be dangerous, too.