Hobby Lobby’s Steve Green launches a new project: a public school Bible curriculum (Jesus, education)
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Look, Oklahomans pretty strongly feel, if there is one thing the government can and should do right, then it is to promote Christianity. However, putting up the Ten Commandments monument on state capitol grounds with a word or two misspelled on it doesn't count.
Nooooo government should not be promoting any religion period, would you also be in favor of government supporting Muslims or Jews.
It's an elective? Who cares. Since our schools suck so bad, does it matter what they teach that the kids will never remember? If they offered a course on the Koran I would be interested in that. Actually a religion course teaching about all of them would be interesting. But, then again I'm not afraid of learning about ideas...even bad ones.
This is high school, electives should be standardized legitimate courses, they can choose electives like this in college if they so choose high school is another matter.
The name was changed from Christian to Faith Schools when Muslims demanded the same, do you really want to open that bucket of worms in US public schools.
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The term was introduced in Britain in 1990 following demands by Muslims for
institutions comparable to the existing Christian church schools. It is
distinct from an institution mainly or wholly teaching religion and related
subjects.
This is a great idea, are they going to also have a class on the Quran and are the atheists going to jump into the fray. No problem here right, I feel sorry for the PTA they really have their work cut out for them
So much for Hobby Lobby just being another company not interested in politics or religion, nothing we didn't know already about their agenda.
How sad it is to see someone who doesn't understand the meaning of "elective".
I suspect that the majority of students signing up for this class will be those who are already active in a local church and want to be there, so they will be pretty much preaching to the choir. The kids who don't believe won't be signing up, unless they are pressured to.
Also, the apologetics component means this isn't the Bible-as-literature notion that tends to pass muster with the courts. Green has stated that one of his goals is to prove that the Bible is true.
That's not to say that the course he has put together isn't a good one worth studying. In my day, we'd go out into the neighborhood and invite kids to church who didn't regularly come. It's not as easy as having the government mandate them to listen, but it's more effective IMO. Plus, would you rather leave your child's religious education to a government school teacher, or to your church?
Bible study in the classroom and Creationist theme parks.
Then you wonder why other countries laugh at you.
Indeed.
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