Should public schools be mandated to teach the Bible?

[Woodznutz]

But they are being forced to read your religious text. And only your religious text.

I've got a better idea. Keep your religion out of the curriculum.

You can teach kids about history without forcing them to read your scriptures.

Those 'scriptures' are history. Ever wonder why the Christian west has the book of the history of the nation of Israel? Note that prophecy is history written in advance.

 

[AsherN]

No need to make up the fact that most of Latin America is Roman Catholic and also has the largest murder rates. You have seized the tail, while I have the whole dog.

Aren't Catholics Christians?

 

[Woodznutz]

Aren't Catholics Christians?

Good question.

 

[gtopa1]

Not stopping Christian gatherings at schools is fine as long as they are voluntary. Mandates?? NEVER!!!

And no; I am NOT saying Christian gatherings shouldn't be in public schools; only that they should be VOLUNTARY.

Greg

 

[gtopa1]

Good question.

Criky old son; we're the originals!!! Started with some Jews and waddya know; still going strong.

Greg

 

[gtopa1]

It is fun to listen to the 'Don't Indoctrinate our KIDS!!' crowd call for mandatory bible study in public schools.

Who's doing that?? I've only seen people saying it should be voluntary.

Greg

 

[Woodznutz]

Criky old son; we're the originals!!! Started with some Jews and waddya know; still going strong.

Greg

Actually, the RCC didn't start until about the fourth century.

 

[frigidweirdo]

I stand corrected on the first four.
Now, survey the remaining 26.

What's the point? You decided to make something up, and present it as a fact. You didn't look it up. You want me to do all the work for you.

No, you cannot claim protestantism is something great when it has the top four murder countries in the world.

 

[frigidweirdo]

No need to make up the fact that most of Latin America is Roman Catholic and also has the largest murder rates. You have seized the tail, while I have the whole dog.

Again, you made something up, you didn't look it up. Even when I provide you with the evidence you still can't be bothered.

Typical of this forum, typical of modern democracy. Everyone knows everything, but they don't need to prove it, because they "know it" already.

 

[Woodznutz]

Again, you made something up, you didn't look it up. Even when I provide you with the evidence you still can't be bothered.

Typical of this forum, typical of modern democracy. Everyone knows everything, but they don't need to prove it, because they "know it" already.

I did look it up. Note that Latin America, predominately Roman Catholic, has the highest murder rates in the world.

Why is Roman Catholicism so prominent in Latin America? | Britannica

Why is Roman Catholicism so prominent in Latin America? Roman Catholicism is the major religion of nearly every country in Latin America. This can be

www.britannica.com

 

[frigidweirdo]

I did look it up. Note that Latin America, predominately Roman Catholic, has the highest murder rates in the world.

Why is Roman Catholicism so prominent in Latin America? | Britannica

Why is Roman Catholicism so prominent in Latin America? Roman Catholicism is the major religion of nearly every country in Latin America. This can be

www.britannica.com

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3 of the top 10 are Catholic. Still a higher percentage are protestant.

And yes, you get a lot of South American countries there on the list. However had you looked it up in the first place, you'd have seen that 7 of the top 10 are countries where protestantism is the main religion. You didn't. So you made claim.

For me it doesn't make a difference. Christianity leads to higher crime. You try and make out your branch is somehow better, it's not.

 

[Woodznutz]

Christianity leads to higher crime.

Your whole argument hangs on this falsehood. Also, remember that the Devil puts his people into the Christian church for the purpose of destroying it from within. So, the 'criminality' of the church is of the Devil, not of God.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Your whole argument hangs on this falsehood. Also, remember that the Devil puts his people into the Christian church for the purpose of destroying it from within. So, the 'criminality' of the church is of the Devil, not of God.

What "falsehoods" would they be then?

And there is only one God, therefore the Devil must be a part of God.

 

[Woodznutz]

What "falsehoods" would they be then?

Cozying up to the world.

 

[surada]

The foundation of education is literacy. Western Europeans were taught/learned to read primarily so they could read the Bible, which was made available to the masses via the printing press. The printing of the Bible stirred the desire for literacy in the west more than any other cause.

You need a literate population to have a Democratic Republic... Immigrants spoke many different languages.

 

[surada]

Again, you made something up, you didn't look it up. Even when I provide you with the evidence you still can't be bothered.

Typical of this forum, typical of modern democracy. Everyone knows everything, but they don't need to prove it, because they "know it" already.

Stupidity is epidemic.

 

[frigidweirdo]

Cozying up to the world.

Explain...

 

[frigidweirdo]

Stupidity is epidemic.

Is it even stupidity? To me it's just laziness. People who can't be bothered to look things up even when they have all the tools right there at the tips of their fingers.

 

[DGS49]

The Ten Commandments are not uniform in the Bible, or in translation, and there are a couple that are purely religion based, but setting those aside for a moment, they would be the foundation of a great little HS course on moral and ethical life practices. Dennis Prager has written a wonderful little pamphlet on the Ten Commandments and their ramifications.

In my mind, it would be entirely appropriate to teach HS Seniors a course on morals and ethics, with a major focus on prominent areas of our culture where lying is routine and accepted...advertising, legal advocacy, politics. Students should be advised to take such communications with the proverbial grain of salt, and to explore the facts more deeply on their own, so as not to be misled.

Do any public schools formally teach such a thing? I rather doubt it.

 

[surada]

Is it even stupidity? To me it's just laziness. People who can't be bothered to look things up even when they have all the tools right there at the tips of their fingers.

Stupidity and laziness go hand in hand.