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Originally Posted by Splum
Why do you assume anyone thinks it means christian based God? You people and your anti-christian hatred are just as bad as the bible thumpers. 90% of America believe in God, that is the outcome of the poll period.
You want your kids to be confused and ignorant of religion which will affect their world every day? To not teach them the basics about what religion means and how it affect their lives is handicapping their ability to cope with religious influence.
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To defend the use of the bible in classrooms with some poll saying 90% of Americans believe in "god" is ludicrous. That was my point. Christianity is a comparatively tiny, new religion -- notions of "god" pre-exist Christianity by thousands of years.
The bible is a piece of Christian religious literature. It's not about "god", it's about the Christian religion's peculiar notions of "god".
You want YOUR kids taught the bible? Fine -- send them to a Christian school. Public schools should teach reading, writing and arithmetic. To sneak the bible in the back door in a "literature" context is, imho, disingenuous. I'd feel the same way about the Koran, or Dawkins' views of atheism, or anything else not grounded in function and fact.
When Christians allow Muslims, Buddhists, atheists, gay people, and everyone else (including porn webmasters) to have their own groups in school without constantly trying to bully them into submission, then I have no problem with school-based Christian groups. Until such time, if there has to be one religion, it must be a secular one.