Group wants high school course where Bible is the primary textbook.

[IChing]

School Board Meets About Possible Bible Class
Oct 2, 2006 03:55 PM


School Board Meets About Possible Bible Class

Questions surrounded whether the Bible should be used as a primary textbook for a class in Wilson County high schools Monday night.
The school board heard the proposal Monday night for a Bible history and literature class. They called the meeting a study session, where the school board will hear details of the proposed class to learn more about it.

The board will not vote, but will only get more information about the proposed class.
Retired engineer Terry Redmon, wants the class approved, in which the Bible would be the textbook

"The Bible was the first textbook in our educational system, and so to really be well rounded, well balanced, and well education, you need to know about the Bible," Redmon said.

Redmon started a group called "reclaiming the land with Christ." The school board scheduled a one-hour work session for him to explain what would be involved in the class that would be a high school elective
Redmon said that similar programs were already in place in 37 states, in 1,300 high schools. >>>>>snip



http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=5487295

Now this course will get you jobs after you graduate from High School and
I thought my "Parent criticizes book 'Fahrenheit 451 wants it removed from school" story was bad

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2284526&mesg_id=2284526

[4morewars]

1. 30 years ago, we laughed at these maniacs !

No one took them seriously, now they are running the country !

WTF happened ?

[Nickster]

2. I believe that "class" is called bible study and is available at your

local house of worship or often in the homes of your friends at your local house of worship. Not something that taxpayers should be paying for and taking time away from learning about things that will make well rounded students.

[hatrack]

3. Will they also employ it as a primary science textbook?

Just thought I'd ask . . .

[hobbit709]

6. And primary mathematics

Itinerant sheep herders only needed to count to 20-easy with open-toed sandals.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. There's a lot of unsuitable material in the Bible for kids.

[Akoto]

5. How can they "reclaim" a land they never owned?

Are these people completely unaware of history? America exists because of folks who wanted to get AWAY from totalitarian theocrats.

[tularetom]

7. Once again I took a guess where this story originated

and once again I was right. Actually I attended schools in a county near this over 50 years ago and although the schools sucked and the area was a hotbed of christian propaganda, I don't recall such blatant attempts to shove the buybull down our innocent throats.

[IChing]

8. This is why local politics is so important

Even if you no longer have kids in school,
as citizens we need to be active.

[Hugin]

9. Ah, so... Yet another attempt to get their toe in the door.

Reading the Bible isn't the problem... It's the preaching by those who
would tell you what it says. That's the problem.

[MessiahRp]

10. I wouldn't mind the bible being discussed

as fiction in mythology classes right along-side Greek Mythology and books of that ilk.

Rp

[JHB]

11. So can we read Mark Twain from his church's pulpit?

I was thinking of something from "Letters From the Earth"...

[sinkingfeeling]

12. But then someone else can be 'offended' by the sex, drinking, and

murder that the Bible contains. I would be curious to know what type of 'Bible history' would be included. The history of how the present day Bible came into being? How that explains how it cannot be 'inerrant'? Or are they talking about teaching students that the whole world is less than 6,000 years old?

[TriMetFan]

13. If they want the Bible as....

the primary text book then they need to send their kids to Christen Schools and stay out of public schools. But of course that is way to easy for wacko's to understand.

[Double T]

14. There was Separation of Church and State prior to bushco's regime.......

vote them out and WE can put things back the way they should be; SEPARATED. If the fundies want a course where the Bible is the primary textbook, then they should open a Bible School.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. The Supreme Court decision allows the Bible as literature and as part of

comparative religion courses, but somehow, I don't think that's what these people have in mind.

[IChing]

16. In College I had to take two courses in Logic before

I was qualified to take a course on
Religion and Philosophical Thought.