Bible in high-school studies is part of Hobby Lobby president's evangelization push

[TexasTowelie]

OKLAHOMA CITY — Steve Green’s faith led him to the U.S. Supreme Court, where he’s argued the nation’s new health care law and its requirement that his business provide certain types of birth control to employees violates his religious freedoms.

At the same time, the president of the Hobby Lobby chain of craft stores is working to add the Bible to the curriculum of public high schools nationwide. His purpose, stated more clearly at some times than at others, is for students to learn its text and put America on a righteous course.

“This nation is in danger because of its ignorance of what God has taught,” Green said last year to the National Bible Association, announcing his plan for the high school course. “There are lessons from the past that we can learn from, the dangers of ignorance of this book. We need to know it, and if we don’t know it, our future is going to be very scary.”

Green has established a beachhead in his home state of Oklahoma, where the public Mustang School District in suburban Oklahoma City will begin teaching a class about the Bible as an elective beginning this fall. The goal is to place the Bible course in thousands of schools by 2017.

More at http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20140507-bible-in-high-school-studies-is-part-of-hobby-lobby-president-s-evangelization-push.ece .

[Blue Owl]

1. Only in a religion class where every other holy book is also studied

n/t

[burnsei sensei]

2. To study the Bible as literature isn't a bad idea.

But to study it as if it were inerrant truth is dangerous.
The more public religion is, the more dangerous and de-stabilizing it is.

[TBF]

3. Only if it's a comparative religions class

or appreciation for fiction ...

[Initech]

4. And Reagan destroying the nation's education system had nothing to do with America's ignorance.

[Dawson Leery]

5. Shopping at Hobby Lobby and Chick-Fil-A puts money into these subversive causes.

[Bigmack]

6. Are people SURE they want kids reading the Bible...?

ALL of it...?

I taught high school - bright kids, too - and they would have had a grand old time finding stuff in the Bible that they would be glad to question or poke fun at.

Leviticus would be great fun!

[Prophet 451]

7. Only in a world religions class

If it's part of a class teaching the basics of all religions (or, say, the top eight), then fine. Otherwise, he can go Cheney himself.

[jmowreader]

8. True entertainment...

Contrast the Seventh Commandment ("thou shalt not commit adultery&quot with the story of Lot being raped by both his daughters.

[Archae]

10. Don't forget King David and his main squeeze.

Wasn't her name Bathsheba?

[jmowreader]

12. There's also the second commandment problem

It's hard to reconcile "you will not kill" with the laundry list of hits God put out in Leviticus 20, or the rather frequent tales of God wiping out entire towns.

[Archae]

13. Exactly.

In the Old Testament, men and boys in other tribes were slaughtered, and their young girls were taken.

This is tribal warfare and genocide, given the excuse "Gawd said we should do this!"

Numbers

31:17 Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

31:18 But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.

[nyquil_man]

9. If the country's not "on a righteous course,"

does that mean the churches are failing?

[Ikonoklast]

11. No, they're doing a great job.

Many of them teaching their followers by example how to lie, cheat, steal, rape, be hypocrites, and generally do every damn thing Jesus told them no to.

I'd say they're doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing.