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Actually, learning about the bible and reading it is a big reason why I am an atheist. If it's an objective class, where the students aren't just fed the happy parts and told that the whole thing is true, but learn about the history and influences as well, then I am OK with it as objective information; facts are facts. But I worry about Christian teachers with an agenda teaching the bible as pure truth.
But I think it should be a class that teaches about other religious texts as well, or those classes should also be required like this in order to be fair and not push a particular religious institution on kids using tax dollars.
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?
That's a very good point. What if a child wants to study the Koran, is that an option as well, or how about Scientology? It all boils down to state funding for religious indoctrination, plain and simple. If your child wants to take a course on "The Bible" so badly, how about pay for it out of your own pocket when they go to college, that way tax dollars aren't supporting religion.
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.
League of Womens Voters was the source that I provided, fyi.
Definitely a step in the right direction! All we need to do now is outlaw science, reinstate slavery and overturn Roe vs Wade. It is nice to see people embracing the future!
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.
IMO, a believer would end up proselytizing, they would not be able to maintain their objectivity and that would make them an inappropriate teacher for the course.
Seems all the non-Texans are up in arms about this while the Texans are taking it in stride.
All I have to say is that you'd better think twice before moving here. We do things different in Texas and live up to the motto "A whole n'other country".
We live in a secular society. PUBLIC schools CANNOT, Constitutionally, REQUIRE that a religious text be part of the curriculum for students. They CANNOT.
There will be a lawsuit, the case will make it to the Supreme Court, and the Texas law will be struck down.
It wasn't a forum, actually, I was wrong. It was comments written by anonymous posters below a newspaper article.
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