michnews.com — The Bible is back in the Ector County Independent School District, according to the trustees? decision. Vote: 4 to 2. High schoolers will have a course published by the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools.
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Closed AccountJan 11, 2007
They will likely come running either way.
jesusissatanJan 12, 2007
And you're proud of Christians who burned women at the stake or drowned them because they believed them to be "witches"? Is that any more civilized? I love it when Christians think they are so high and mighty and above other religions. Yeah, those stupid Muslims who think they'll be rewarded with 72 virgins in Heaven when they blow themselves up. Yeah, like Bush's Christian soldiers who slaughter Iraqi women and children really believe they are somehow going to be rewarded by Jesus Christ. Somehow, I don't think Jesus will be saying to them, "Heckuva job! Here are your wings."
atomicrobotJan 12, 2007
Bomb texas.
dudadJan 12, 2007
That's wrong.It should be, "Don't force prayer in my school, and I.."I just think about the muslims who still pray at school, or the people who pray to themselves before lunch or before a test.
Closed AccountJan 13, 2007
Better students learn from the Bible than the Book of Liberal. Let me share a few versus from it:Liberal 10:3 - Thou shalt not be able to use logic or reasoning.Liberal 23:7 - Liberals must create lies and then believe their lies.Liberal 2:17 - Thou shalt not say anything intelligent if you are a liberal.Liberal 5:44 - Thou shalt not stand for anything and must be wishy-washy.Liberal 19:1 - Thou shalt not use any facts when speaking as a liberal.And so it was written, and so it was done. Amen.
surfbrandsJan 13, 2007
@analyze - Love your comment! This story definately drew the attention of a lot of Bible haters. As for me, having actually read and studied the Bible closely, I believe it to be true....right from the very first verse. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Genesis 1:1
Closed AccountJan 14, 2007
If you want to go through your life willfully ignorant, that's fine. Just don't try to make other people do it. I learned about the Bible too - in a private school, not in a public one. That's all anyone is saying. The Bible is one collection of beliefs about the world and should not be taught as truth. For instance, I believe in god, but I don't believe he did anything as his character did it in the bible. The first seven days of time did not end with Adam sitting eating a leg of lamb in the garden of Eden. It's a story, a fable. The hilarious thing is that the person who wrote it probably intended it as such.And if you think that the Bible is literally true, explain to me how in Genesis 1 god creates all the creatures and plants and then gets bored and creates man, but then in the very next chapter god and creates man first, then man gets bored and god creates everything else. Which is it? If it's a literal truth, it can't possibly be both. The rest of the bible is filled with such inconsistencies.Given all of the science over the past hundred years (especially the picture in the link below taken by the Hubble telescope) how can anyone possibly believe that the earth was created by a vengeful deity 6,000 years ago (who apparently killed almost all of his creation and started over because he was mad at them), and that about 4,000 years later he decided to seed some random virgin near Galilee with his son, whom he had killed so he could prove something or other to his creation because they didn't get it the second time around. Sounds like a load of crap to me, just like every other religious explanation for our purpose I've ever heard. I don't want this tripe taught to my kids, get it? Keep it out of public schools. If you want to have the bible as ONE text in a literature or history class, it's pretty much indispensable. At that point, teach it young adults that can tell the difference between truth and fiction.So tell me how the bible reconciles this picture:<a class="user" href="http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1996/01">http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1996/01</a>
aceg1357Jan 14, 2007
@qazxsw2 I don't have to look at it.Do you know why?99% of teachers never will.They will make their own curriculum with their own objectives just like 99% of teachers do. In fact I have never met a teacher that just fully implements an outside curriculum. Since I have been a teacher for 10 years, I've met a lot of teachers.I'm guessing that this was made for private schools, and has some decent additional resources that are not religious in nature so that a public school would still buy it. The companies mission statement means nothing if teachers implement it in line with public school standards. Since it is against the law to implement the Bible in a religious way, most teacher's are not going to risk disciplinary action or being fired.
brockeimFeb 14, 2008
OK, who took all this freedom of speech seriously and brought in an Old Testament? What's next, Shakespeare? All of this classic education will ruin today's kids, as well-read as they already are.
ineversleepAug 15, 2009
About time. For a good while now it has been politically correct to present students with every other religious text besides the Christian Bible. It is hypocritical and just plain idiotic to pretend that the Bible is not a valid part of our nation's history (at the very least) and doesn't belong in the classroom. Religion may belong outside the classroom, but the history of religion absolutely does not.(I reply to this now because while this passed in 2007, it will be active for the first time this year)
supermonroeAug 18, 2009
All or none: Either teach about all of the religions (and I mean ALL of them... even scientology) or none of them. And, there's no way that'll fly... The christian hypocrites will go bats**t crazy if they hear that the koran is being taught along with the bible. The school board would be flooded with litigation... probably will be anyway. So the only answer is to teach none of them.You know what? I don't care anymore. You can't f**king argue with these people because, as far as they're concerned, 'god' is on their side. Logic and reason are powerless against a credulous, superstitious person. I'm tired of it. If they want to remain ignorant, that's fine with me. Whatever. It's only Texas.