Do you mind if I interject here ?*
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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.
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Are you eluding to monetheism here ?
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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".
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Very well put.
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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.
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Again very well put.
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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.
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Only the truth will set us free - the secular world is mainly just an extention of the religious one.