Bible Study in Georgia Public Schools

[luna_k]

Your tax dollars at work, ladies & gentlemen! From Newsweek:
May 1, 2006 issue - Fresh from a bruising federal court fight over the teaching of evolution, Georgia marched back into the culture wars last week when Gov. Sonny Perdue signed a bill allowing Bible classes in public high schools. An estimated 8 percent of the nation's schools offer some

Comments

[aerynvala]

You've caused me a bit of whiplash I'm afraid, what with that voice of reason coming from a Texas group. Perhaps armegeddon is upon us. ;)

But in all seriousness, this whole issue makes me violently ill. I need to go watch something uplifting like RE:2 to cleanse my mind. *sigh*

[txvoodoo]

*pulls out hair*

[thisficklemob]

Twits.

I remember finding out as a freshman in high school that my brother's senior year English class read some of the Bible. I was livid and claimed I wouldn't do it. But by the time I was a senior, I'd mellowed on the issue. Because really, on some level, the Bible IS a major source of literary material for European literature. We read bits of the Bible, some Genesis, Job, Revelations, etc.... and then we read Dante's Inferno and Bread and Wine by Ignazio Silone. You can't usefully read either if you don't have a bit of Biblical background... and neither is particularly friendly to Church institutions

[thisficklemob]

may advocate belief, not made advocate belief. What is it with me and similar-sounding words today?

[caitie]

I'm strongly in favor of a religion course as an elective for highschoolers, and I'm even okay if the class ends up spending more time, maybe an entire semester, studying Christianity. But I don't see how they can exclusively focus on he Christian bible, geez.

It's weird because I read the Atlanta Journal-Constitution regularly (I'm a student at UGA) but I haven't heard anyting about this!