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How can you teach about something you do not know about?
One can study the bible as an intellectual exercise - and many do. It is not necessary to believe that the bible is the word of god to 'know' about the bible.
One can study the bible as an intellectual exercise - and many do. It is not necessary to believe that the bible is the word of god to 'know' about the bible.
You can "read" the Bible but not know what you are reading. I can read the Koran but have no sense of the real impact on people's life's since it is not what I believe. One must know the true impact the Bible has on Christians to teach it. IMO of course.
Yet another intelligent response, you always know how to add to the debate.
That poster hates Texas. He/she has said that TX is #48 in literacy rate on threads in the past. When asked for a source, he/she provided a link to a comment made by an anonymous person (with no source to back it up) on another internet forum.
It's below average, no doubt, but I don't think it's that low.
These classes will be offered in high schools. I attended public high school in Texas and you know what? Coloring was not a part of the curriculum. Reading was. Imagine that.
Why? It's an elective on Biblical history, what's the issue?
The issue is that the tax payer funded school only offers a class for one religion and by not offering classes that teach about other beliefs, becomes an endorsement of that one religion.... Christianity.
So, if a certain number of kids want a class on Islam or Judaism... will the school have to offer it?
Billy Clyde Jr and Daisy Mae will just color in the pictures of Jesus' beard.
It's not our fault all the illegals and the children of illegals clogging our schools can't read. Maybe if they spoke english....We'd be happy to ship them up north though if you kind folks would take them...
The issue is that the tax payer funded school only offers a class for one religion and by not offering classes that teach about other beliefs, becomes an endorsement of that one religion.... Christianity.
So, if a certain number of kids want a class on Islam or Judaism... will the school have to offer it?
No..they will need to petition the school board that they want that class and then that goes through the same process as this Bible class did. If it passes then it too can be an elective in all Texas high schools.
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